Author: Nick Kempinski

  • Shameless Plug: Voice Demo

    I don’t often do shameless plugs, but this video I did for my day job, I’m pretty happy with. Got to brush off the V/O BCIT radio days.

    BTW: I’m not opposed to any V/O side gigs…. just sayin

  • 9,999 pieces of crap

    I like the way Tom Webster thinks. In his latest newsletter, he talks about the “fail forward” mentality.

    Here’s a phrase that’s used to promote failing fast

    Edison made 10,000 failed versions of the light bulb.

    Here’s what it should be

    Edison made 9,999 crappy lightbulbs and shipped 1.

  • #Movember 2020

    With this year being extra hard for mental health, decided to Reverse Mo. So I don’t freak out a small boy, I’m going to shave a little off every day in support. #movember

  • And we’re back

    Still in progress. History will come back.

    Update [2020-10-25]: ? History.

  • The WordPress Yo-Yo

    It’s that time again. Github and gitpages you’ve been great. But I’m lazy. Lazier than lazy lately.

    So it’s time to head on back to wordpress. I’ll be doing this slowly. So chances are, this site will flicker and flub, maybe even a blorp to a final kapow!

    Thanks for all the fish.

  • Mac Meet Ubuntu. Ubuntu Meet my old Mac.

    Take an old Mac (< 2013) wipe it clea and run ubuntu. Check.

    Giving new life to what could have been an old paper weight, awesome!

  • Don’t give what you “need”. Give what’s needed.

    Don’t give what you “need”. Give what’s needed.

    Hello, new-ish/old-ish medium look

    Would you look at that. Medium has rolled out it’s new-ish/old-ish layout. Very reminiscent of classic blog layout. Perfect for the simple, the irreverent, and the unimportant posts like this one.

    But sometimes that’s exactly what’s needed. Perhaps we didn’t “need” more. We didn’t “need” fancier. We didn’t “need” crazy layouts. Just scroll and read.

    Consider that when thinking about what you want to say. There’s what you think you “need” to say. What people think they “need” to read. And somewhere in the middle, is the magical, what’s needed.

  • My Personality (2020 Edition)

    The past year has been a tough one. Let’s distract myself for a moment to see how my personality test holds up to last years.

    Your type is: INFP

    “Questor”. High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

    Introverted (I) 67.74% / Extroverted (E) 32.26%
    Intuitive (N) 82.14% / Sensing (S) 17.86%
    Feeling (F) 73.33% / Thinking (T) 26.67%
    Perceiving (P) 80% / Judging (J) 20%

    Type 1 Orderliness |||||| 30%
    Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||||||| 73%
    Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||| 53%
    Type 4 Individuality |||||||||||||||||| 80%
    Type 5 Rationality |||||||||| 33%
    Type 6 Cautiousness |||| 16%
    Type 7 Adventurousness ||||||||||||||| 66%
    Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||| 46%
    Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||||||| 73%

    Your main type is Type 4

    Your variant stacking is spsxso

    type score type behavior motivation
    4 24 I must be unique/different to survive.
    2 22 I must be helpful and caring to survive.
    9 22 I must maintain peace/calm to survive.
    7 20 I must be fun and entertained to survive.
    3 16 I must be impressive and attractive to survive.

    High level – still INFP Type 4 with the same variant. Lower level – I seemed to have taken some of my rationality and replaced with aggressiveness.
    I think we all are feeling it. That – and my kid is 2. You try and survive that without a little more aggressiveness.

    If you’re curious about yours, this was made using the Jung+Enneagram test.

  • Testing Netlify CMS

    Testing a netlify cms post. There’s a few things I’m still wrapping my head around. But interesting so far.

    Update: Well that was interesting. Did some strange post not found. But after refresh worked. Does it always do that?

    Update 2020-09-08: Never used Netlify for this, so not as interesting as I thought.