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Parenting

Good-bye, Dad

My dad died a few days ago - on Tuesday, August 25 at 1am in the morning. He had been struggling with ALS (Lou Gherrig's disease)--a progressive nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the...

Happiness

Learning to let go

As a developer, one of things you need is the ability to really focus for long periods of time. In my own life, I can see that bleed into obsessiveness at times. One of things I'm learning now is ho...

Things I Built

Roam Keyboard Shortcuts

This file includes keyboard shortcuts for Twitter and Roam: [Download v0.3](http://kalenjordan.com/kj-keyboard-shortcuts-v0.3.zip)...

Things I Built

Twitter Focus Mode

I built a little Chrome extension that eliminates some of the visual clutter on Twitter. When you press the 'f' key, it [hides the left and right nav](https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1263559...

Updates

What I'm up to now

Falling in love with coding again. Loving it. Tailwind. Laravel. Haven't done this in a while. Hope it lasts! Educational apps with my kids. More proactive with their learning. Tinkercad, Duolingo,...

Parenting

Learning 3D design with my 10 year old daughter using Tinkercad

I've long wanted to share my love of technology with my daughter and teach her some practical software skills. For the first time in her life, I actually feel like I'm doing that. Tried getting her ...

Things I Built

Free Bose Noise-Cancelling \ Headphones For Parents

Are you newly working from home with kids in the house making a lot of noise (like mine do!)? Do you have some good noise cancelling headphones? If not, trust me, you need them in your life! Being...

Product Ideas

Codecadamy for Magento

Figure out the ideal learning journey for Magento devs. Then bake that into an interactive Codecademy-style experience that bootstraps a dev environment for them to work against. They can hit the gr...

It's time to build

The problem is desire

We need to *want* these things. The problem is inertia. We need to want these things more than we want to prevent these things. The problem is regulatory capture. We need to want new companies to ...

Social Media

Text screenshots are a surprisingly good way to share content

On Twitter, they allow you to share 2x or 3x as much content at once. On IG, it allows you to share text content in a way that the platform doesn't really allow natively. On LinkedIn, your post will...

Happiness

You really can worry about *anything*

A few months ago, while going for a walk... I found myself worrying about money. Lately, I've been focusing a lot on our lawn. It's actually pretty frustrating. I find myself literally angry that ot...