Blog Posts
Deliberate Introduction of Desirable Difficulty into Daily Work
- Rick Pfahl
- Psychology
- 05 Sep, 2025
1. Desirable Difficulties in PracticeInterleaving: Instead of batch-learning one type of skill, you rotate between several. For coding, that might mean: debugging a patch, then writing
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Using Makefiles, SOPS, and virtualenv Together for Elegant Python Environments
- Rick Pfahl
- Engineering and Development
- 05 Aug, 2025
I've been managing my secrets with sops ever since I looked into the subject last month, and I've been using Makefiles to handle bringing up my docker environments as they provide a nice way to not
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Web Application Boilerplate
- Rick Pfahl
- Engineering and Development
- 21 Jul, 2025
I've been tinkering with a number of projects and along the way I've come up with what I think is a solid starting point for any web application that you might build. Understanding that your applicat
read more Secrets Management DevOps Tools and More
- Rick Pfahl
- Engineering and Development
- 18 Jul, 2025
These tools provide a means of securely storing secrets (encryption keys, passwords, all that good stuff that you want to make available to your production systems, but you must protect from exposure)
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Another AstroJS Administration Tutorial
- Rick Pfahl
- Digital Publishing
- 17 Jul, 2025
astro administration part 1 This tutorial should serve as a companion to the one here [Operation of a Blog Built with AstroJS Static Site Generator](https://newliteracy.online/posts/basic-operatio
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Browser extensions and enhancements
- Rick Pfahl
- Software
- 30 Jun, 2025
1.Single File: Store copies of webpages including all assets as a single html file: Firefox [Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.co
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