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Practical insights from "The Willpower Instinct": willpower as muscle, dopamine's role, self-forgiveness, and the key technique of pausing to recognize automatic decisions.

Simple web system for sharing EC2 access while the bill payer maintains control—team members can start instances via web interface with authentication.

Being an observer means watching yourself from above—this mindset brings better emotional control, time management, and critical self-awareness.

Answers common questions about obtaining a private pilot certificate, covering benefits, aircraft rental costs, training expenses, and time commitment for becoming a certified airplane pilot.

Key takeaways on choosing a life partner: understanding what makes a good marriage, watching for red flags and green flags, the 7 Cs to look for, and why observing behavior under pressure matters.

Build cheap compute clusters on AWS using spot instances: automated system configuration, sshfs file transfer, and GNU parallel for job distribution.

A practical guide to scraping photos from Facebook groups when Graph API doesn't expose the endpoint - using Chrome dev tools, curl with cookies, grep and awk to extract image URLs from rendered HTML.

Building a web interface for MATLAB using Node.js and Express, enabling file upload, real-time status updates, and result download—useful for collaborative research and distributed computing.

Shares experience using Amazon's Fulfilled by Amazon service to resell Black Friday deals. Documents pitfalls in the seller center interface, particularly around pricing and inventory management, with a price monitoring utility.

Using GitHub WebHook to create a self-updating Node.js web app that automatically pulls code and restarts when you push to the repository.