Hello, I’m Joel.
I love tech. I love helping people with it.
I’m a husband and father, a computer engineer, and a project manager at work. I like riding motorbikes and writing about travel, everyday life and my shower thoughts. Welcome to my own little corner of the internet.
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I’ve been using the Instagram Stories and it has taken the place of my old WhatsApp Stories contact list, only on steroids. Seriously, this is such a great feature. It’s ephemeral nature allows me to post without abandon, the tagging and re-sharing is great for pulling people into the conversation and the stickers/filters/text additions are…
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I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with traditional social media, but without the love. Something about the constant self-promotion gets on my nerves. (Yes, I realise the irony of writing this on a website with my name on it.) I don’t use Facebook (or Messenger) to this day, and my account largely exists because of…
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I’ve noticed that my mind goes blank if I ever “stop to think”. I thought it had something to do with my concentration, but the other day, I had a revelation (while talking). I talk to think! It makes perfect sense. One of the benefits of being a talk-to-think kinda person is that I make…
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[04/07/2017] MacBook Air 13″, 2015- i5, 8GB/128GB arrived. Unboxing experience was typical Apple- pretty special. I am officially “one of those” Mac people now. Migrated the ~5GB of data from my previous machine to a Google Drive. Starting afresh with the Mac. A few system updates later, its good to go. Screen doesn’t have the…
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A trick-and-a-half that I use to make Slack less annoying.
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Inspired by this line that I’ve heard and resonated with in one form or another: free yourself from having to constantly prove yourself. I am not an imposter. I don’t need to wait until my situation is perfect to enjoy the present. I can enjoy the things as they come, instead of when some arbitrary…