Shane Rice

Slate published a fascinating profile of John M. Ford and the end gave me goosebumps. The woman who would become his wife asked him this in…

You can use to set a cell’s value to the last calendar month. To create a column with a rolling 12 month you can iterate the cells in a…

It’s #WorkFromHomeDay! Here’s my story of transitioning from working in an office full-time to a full-time remote job. The first time I…

When I joined GitLab, there were layers, upon layers, upon layers of tags and triggers in our Google Tag Manager (GTM) container. One of…

One project I’ve tackled at GitLab is cleaning up our GTM container. Our container is a few years old and is full of cruft, and I want to…

Yesterday my friend Matt mentioned he wanted a simple way to share a song or album with his friends regardless of what music service they…

I haven’t been great at adding updates to what I’m reading or watching here. I’m going to put some more love and attention on my blog, and I…

Search engine optimization is a big job, and if you’re on a small team, there’s a temptation to ignore SEO as a waste of time. SEO is a mix…

2017 was a year of big changes for our family. We welcomed our third sweet baby to this world in May. Jen lost her appendix. The older kids…

It’s super easy to fake Twitter and Facebook updates to put words in people’s mouth. Spreading fake updates makes puppies sad. Try and make…

Some time in the middle of October I introduced my oldest daughter to the Newsies musical on Netflix. She’s 10, and I thought she’d like it…

Symbols are useful. Letters help us encode our thoughts so they can be recorded and shared. Numbers help us quickly count and calculate…

Steph was relentless. The best kind of relentless. Relentless in a way that made sure I committed to going on a LessEverything trip to Costa…

Nobody Speak on Netflix A few days ago I noticed this in the new releases section on Netflix and added it to my list. Felt like something I…

My wife shared this Tiny Desk Concert with me this morning. I wasn’t quite expecting the gut punch “Father and Son” delivered when it showed…

This thread chokes me up, you’ll need to click through to catch it all. It’s one tiny piece of a much bigger story, but it hits me hard as I…

If you speak Spanish, you know “pinche loco mujeres” means something like “f^!%$*# crazy women.” It’s not a kind thing to say in general…

The first beef in the history of rhetoric went down with the Sophists on one side and Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle lined up on the other…

The first beef in the history of rhetoric went down with the Sophists on one side and Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle lined up on the other…

Many of my friends graduated from college with degrees they don’t use when they do their jobs. When I was deciding what to major in, I wasn…

One weekend in 3rd grade I left my homework assignment at school. Some time on Saturday, I remembered I left my assignment at school and was…

Original image by JD Hancock Last summer, Bill Gates posted a story about his favorite business book, Business Adventures by John Brooks. He…

The last couple of months I’ve been kicking around a few ideas for new projects around. I want to help people who are just starting their…

The Star Wars relaunch released by Marvel Comics earlier this year revived a forgotten personal ritual: the pilgrimage to my local comic…

The Karate Kid is one of those touchstone cultural movies from my early childhood, and one of the most memorable moments is the tournament…

A few minutes ago I saw this tweet from President Obama about the Senate passing the USA Freedom Act. Um, so about that. Instead of the NSA…

A couple of months ago, I got to spend some time catching up with friends I made at LessConf in Costa Rica, and made a bunch of new…

Yesterday morning I read a post from the Ghost team where they talked about increasing the number of people who sign-up and log-in to their…

A New Hope Last week, Marvel comics launched the first title in their revamped Star Wars line. In the early days of the franchise Marvel…

You’ve probably seen this shirt at some point over the last few years: I learned it from watching Seasme Street If my generation really…

Rocky Earlier this week Rocky was on TV, and I got to share parts of it with my 7-year-old daughter for the first time. She would flit in…

Both our kids have food allergies, and our oldest has such a severe reaction to milk we carry Epi-Pens everywhere. We are all thankful we’ve…

The new Flash show premieres tonight, and I couldn’t be more exited. He’s my absolute favorite superhero, and I really hope this new show…

Walt Disney was famous for pushing people who worked for him to “plus it.” Here’s how Ward Jenkins described it: This is still something…

5 years ago I sent a tweet asking someone at AppRiver what I needed to learn to get a job in their support department. I got a reply telling…

I read a great post by Danny Schriber over at the Zapier blog on setting up Google Chrome for Marketers. Don’t miss how he uses Chrome…

Now I Know is a great daily email, especially if you like little bit-sized nuggets of history. Today’s email was about Times Square and how…

One of my favorite things about this time of year is Christmas music. When I was in school I spent November and December at choir practice…

Wonder Woman by Flickr user JD Hancock! Shopping for Star Wars toys is an exercise in futility in our house. Actually it’s a challenge to…