Author: Dustin Hartzler
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Transmit 5 Released — chorus.fm
Transmit is my favorite utility for FTP and connecting to other cloud accounts and today Transmit 5 make things so much nicer! Panic at have released a great update to my favorite file transfer app: Seven years after the first release of Transmit 4, our well-loved and widely-used macOS file transfer app, we sat down…
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Death by Shuttle Run
It’s one of my favorite CrossFit workouts and today I was the fastest 😃 In the first minute, you run one shuttle run length. The next minute you do two, then three and so on. I finished round 15 as time expired and got 9 of the round of 16.
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Community Weekend
We’ve been saying for awhile that we need to form relationships with people who live near us and this weekend we got an opportunity to do that. On Saturday morning, my wife hosted a group of moms who came over, with their kids and let the kids roam free in our backyard. Then, in the…
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Learn Spanish with Memrise
I’ve been using Duolingo for about the last two years trying to up my Spanish fluency. Yesterday I downloaded Memrise (again, as I’ve used it before) to my phone again to give me a new challenge. This app seems to focus on listening, which is usually the hardest part about learning a language, able to…
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Email Free
I checked my personal email for the first time since Saturday this evening. My inbox was full with nearly 200 messages, but nothing was urgent and only needed to send a few replies. Plus I was able to process them all in about 30 minutes. I’m going to start checking my inbox only a few…
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Lots of this
This boy is a few days shy of 4 months and he’s been actively rolling over the last few days! Soon we will be baby protecting everything again.
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Deep Work
Since returning back to work from paternity leave, I’ve found it hard to concentrate for long periods of time. It seems like there is so much going and my mind goes in a zillion directions. Today, I started reading Deep Work by Cal Newport in hopes of learning some techniques to exercise my brain…
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Donut Cheat Day
A few weeks ago, I mentioned I had completely cut out all forms of sugar and grains/gluten. I didn’t have a plan to stop or cheat on my plan but when in Nashville this weekend we found a great bakery that had paleo donuts. By definition a paleo donut fits into my criteria for food…
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Carrot Dogs — Emerging Adult Eats
This looks like something we would make 😂 Place 1,013 I do not fit in: CrossFit tournaments. I think even the toddlers had protein in their bottles. We went to the West Coast CrossFit Regionals in Portland on Saturday. Garr loooovvvveeeesssss CrossFit. Like, gets up at 3:30 am every weekday to do CrossFit loves. He’s…
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4th of July Parade
Someone rode her decorated tricycle in the parade in our neighborhood and had a blast!
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Lunch at Table 33
We took advantage of our babysitter staying until 4pm today and went for a late lunch without the kids. We found a new restaurant called Table 33. Their menu was loaded with great gluten free options, like my chicken and waffles with home made sriracha sauce I had, yum!
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Muscle Ups
In today’s workout, it had 30 muscle ups. I did a combination of ring and bar, but I got all thirty of them. CrossFit plus gluten/sugar eating is making me stronger 🙂
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Zucchini Farmer
Looks like if I wanted to quit my day job, I should go into farming zucchinis. Here’s just a portion of what I’ve harvested this year (we’ve already ate some).
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Reusing it as a Shelf
This piece of furniture once was a hutch that went over a desk. We got rid of the broken desk, but it still makes for a nice shelf. Tonight, I cut the legs off so I could mount it to the wall.
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Indians vs Reds
Er, Lake City Captains versus the Dayton Dragons. Beautiful day for a baseball game, especially when the box seat tickets were free 🙂
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That’s Not What I Asked
Today on our way to Grandma’s house, we made a quick stop in Whole Foods for some yummy snacks and a potty break. Since it was raining out, I asked her to get in the car and take her rain coat off so I could buckle her while in the car and not get soaked. …
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Three Months
This little guy had a rough day from some vaccines yesterday, but he’s definitely getting more stable in the sitting department (he’s heavily leaning on sissy’s couch here).
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Typical Breakfast
During my paternity leave, usually made breakfast for myself everyday. I’ve really enjoyed having a hearty breakfast, especially if I go to 5am CrossFit. Here’s what my breakfast has looked like durin the last week (minus the potatoes) I start by sautéing some eggs, then add some veggies from a salad mix from Trader Joe’s.…
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Bonus Day with the Kids
On my first day back to work today, our baby sitter shows up with a 100+ degree fever. Not wanting to risk our kids to get sick, I sent her home and we found a friend to come and play Barbies for a few hours with our daughter, while I tried to work with our…
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Back to Work
Today is my last day of my 12-week paternity Automattic generously gives new parents. These last few weeks have been awesome but I’m thrilled to be going back for several reasons. Adult conversations On Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Thursday’s I have been watching the kids from 6:45a until about 5:00p. Typically during this time, it was…
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Chat with a Spanish Bot
Duolingo now has a feature to chat with a bot. I think it’s more fun than just answering quiz questions. Plus it’s more real to have to answer in a dialogue fashion. Maybe it will help me become fluent in Spanish 😜
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4.8 and What’s Coming via Matt Mullenweg
Last week we released version 4.8 “Evans” of WordPress, as I write this it has had about 4.8 million downloads already. The release was stable and has been received well, and we were able do the merge and beta a bit faster than we have before. When I originally wrote about the three focuses for… via…
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So You Want to be a Happiness Engineer, Huh?
Great thoughts on what skills and abilities are needed as a Happiness Engineer by one of my colleagues.
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Washing Jeans?
I was reading an old version of Men’s Fitness tonight, and I read this article “Ask Men’s Fitness: How Often Should I Wash My Jeans?” and the recommendation was at least three times per year? Really? Seems like they should be washed more than that 🙂
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And YOU Get a WordPress Shirt
When dad’s in charge of the wardrobe for the day, we all wear WordPress (or WooCommerce).
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Broken RCA Jack
Unloading the car the other day, I broke off an RCA cable for the auxiliary input. After a bit of searching Google, I found the method to fix it and it worked like a charm. I love the internet 🙂
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Much Cooler
One of the air conditioning lines in our MDX had a leak so we’ve been without A/C for the last few weeks. It definitely pays to have a dad with a lot of tools. The new parts from a dealer would have been close to $200 plus labor and I got the parts online for…
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Fun at Grandma’s
Spending a long weekend at Grandma’s. Today we had fun in the pool, in the water table and riding a train with dad at a local benefit auction.
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Trip to the Apple Store
My dad needs a new phone and since it’s a perfect day, the three of us adventured out to the Greene (local outdoor mall) to the Apple Store. Little bro slept thru the whole experience, but big sis enjoyed playing with the kid’s iPads.
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Big Enough for a Stroller
At 10 weeks old, little man is big enough to ride in the BOB Stroller