I grew up in the era of NES and SNES, and have great nostalgia for all those 80s and 90s games. Recently I saw a bunch of handheld gaming systems making the TikTok shop rounds, stocked full of these titles (like the Miyoo Mini+, or the Anbernic RG35XX, or the SNES Classic Mini). I went […]
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managing tasks
I’ve geeked out on the insanely personal yet ubiquitous problem of task management for 20 years. We’re hit with tasks from a million sources – texts, emails, in person, Facebook, IG DMs, Snapchat, phone or Zoom calls. Work is done from everywhere – many of us are just as likely to be strolling through the […]
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how to create a vanity Solana wallet
Solana lets you create wallets with custom first or last characters. For instance, maybe you want your wallet to start with mint or bank or fud. You can do this via the Solana CLI (Command Line Interface). If you just want the code, it’s: And then decode the result in python with: A little more […]
I wrote a list of my favorite tech for the modern nonprofit in 2016, 2017, and 2019. Here’s my updated 2021 recommendations. A smidge of background – I was a CTO and technology entrepreneur for 15 years, and am now several years into being full time in the nonprofit world working on beating cancer for […]
At Beat Nb, we’ve been using Facebook as our main video host for the past couple years. It’s a conscious decision which we made only after studying how our videos are discovered and interacted with.One of our recent videos – Hannah’s story, who’s beating neuroblastoma cancer in Sarasota, FL. Many of the videos we create […]
I wrote a list of my favorite tech for the modern nonprofit in 2016, and again in 2017. Here’s my updated 2019 recommendations. A smidge of background – I was a CTO and technology entrepreneur for 15 years, and am now full time in the nonprofit world working on beating cancer for kids at Beat […]
6 of us ran Ragnar Cape Cod this past Fri/Sat as an Ultra team (6 people, 183.6 miles). 5 of us had participated in a traditional team (12 people) at Ragnar Michigan last year, so we had some familiarity with the event structure. Mandy, our 6th, had never run a Ragnar and joined the team […]
Last year, I wrote a post called “16 Technology Tools Your Nonprofit should be Using in 2016.” As we’ve continued to refine our process over the last year and a half, this article will update on the technology tools Beat Nb uses, and my recommendation on the technology a modern mid-size nonprofit should be using. […]
Today I was trying to show the total number of list subscribers for a Mailchimp list I maintain. I found some more complex solutions using API wrappers (like drewm’s wrapper on Github) but they were more complex than I needed, and still didn’t fully solve the issue – just presented the tools. So a friend […]
My wife Robyn and I’s first born son Ezra died in 2010. He had been diagnosed with cancer on the 400th day of his life, and lived exactly 800 days. Ezra battled cancer half his life. He smiled through most of it. He was funny, curious, and compassionate. He flirted with strangers. He learned to […]