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642 Things to Write About
The book “642 Things to Write About” changed the way I look at writing. It called to me from the shelf at Half Price Books. I felt the care in its construction. I knew in that moment it would change the way I write forever, and it did.

The Elixir of Expertise
Somewhere in vaguely historic China, on a mountain to the west, there lives an ogre who brews an elixir. It is said that if you drink the elixir you can instantly become an expert in anything you desire.

Deep Magic: Sparse Tests using a Makefile
When running tests and deployments in CI, we do not want to test and deploy projects that were not affected by code changes. Here we discuss how to handle that with a Makefile.