The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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A little under two months ago, I started a different kind of journey to learning something new. I swapped out the tired old qwerty layout on my keyboard for Colemak (specifically Colemak-DH variant) in an attempt to have less finger...
If there is one thing that I have personally changed about myself over the past few years it is my stringent reduction in the use of expletives in my vernacular. You will nearly never see it in my writing or my videos, and even though...
I have been using go lang and the Echo framework for all of my app builds over the past six months and can’t see myself ever returning to a javascript or python backend. Here is how I set up a very basic backend in 4 simple steps:...
Perhaps the greatest roadblock on my path to spiritual growth has been falling again and again to the sin of lust. Not just the lust for the flesh, but the lust of items, money, beautiful things and that which ties us to the world. With...
When I was a child, I would always ask my father - God bless him! - why? Why was something like this, or that? Why did this thing go or this other thing stop? Why was that person this way? Why was I here and now? Why did the sky get dark...
When we aim to quit a habit, we inevitably start “counting the days” since we last participated in that habit. “5 days since I last had a smoke!” or “It has been two weeks since I last had a drink” What inevitably happens is that the...
I see far too many people down these days. Three years ago, my life was in shambles. The only thing that pulled me out of that hole was to move my body and subsequently my mind. I never thought I would be at rock bottom. And yet, there I...
One of the greatest lies that we tell ourselves is that we will “do it when we are ready”. I recall nearly 2 years ago, I was sitting at the dinner table with some friends, and we were talking about having children, and the timing...
The presupposition with Pascal’s wager is that living life from a Christian perspective is a “sacrifice” in the short term, but in the long term (read: eternity) you get the reward from that sacrifice in Heaven. You “give up” the short...
In order to live a life in chronic back pain, I have had to adapt various methods to alleviate the strain on my low back. One way I have done this is when I am at work in front of a screen, I alternate between sitting in a chair,...
We must die to the world in order to find eternal life. Give up the chase of the material world, give up the sin, give up the purposelessness, the pointless pursuits which most are completely focused on. Be the one that gives up the...
I used to write in massive paragraphs, where I would lose the sentences that I was writing, and it was not a fun time to edit - to say the least. Adopting this new method was easy and is as follows: When you are writing: Write a...
I invite you to try one of the most life-altering experiments I have taken up in the past year. It is simple, yet life changing in so many ways: In all of your human interactions, look into the eyes of the other person, and begin to see...
The Preface to my Book, Mountain: A Field Guide to Summiting Life is available for everyone to download! You can shoot me an email directly to josh@joshblais.com and I will send you a copy. I am working on a subscription form that will...
Setup of basic Debian server# I generally use Debian for the servers I run projects on. These servers are configured to only allow traffic in the door from my Bastion Host that we configured in the last post. Setup a Debian box on Vultr...