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5/09 »
Things learned today:
- Word of the day: Unlockable - Incapable of being locked, or capable of being locked.
- How to create a Sublime Text 2 plugin by wbond.
- Sublime Text API Reference and here.
- Guide for porting plugins from ST2 to 3.
- Helpful tool to create Regex expressions, another here.
- Owl Carousel 2 for a jQuery carousel.
- Front end dev interview questions.
- How to win at rock paper scissors.
- Installing Postgres locally. Use \? to see available commands and \d(escribe) to see table structure.
- List of coding challenges.
- Data mining algorithms explained.
- Article on doing things alone.
- Blog post driven development.
- Comparison of different JS graph libraries.
- Package that allows code in Atom to be run directly as it’s written.
- Effort to stop mass incarceration in Milwaukee.
- Articles on enterprise sales.
- Why investors don’t fund dating sites.
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Photo Recovery »
Things learned today:
- To recover pictures/data:
- To embed a background HTML5 video, use video.js.
- Consider using wow.js for DOM animations in the future.
- Me, my, I’m are all great words to use in tracking down sources on Twitter based on recent events.
- When traveling alone, use Hostelworld for reviews, stay ~3 nights per city, don’t plan more than a few days in advance in specifics, read the news of the country that you are in. More advice on traveling for a long time.
- Cool world map project.
- Story on trades based on sentiment analysis.
- Best product landing pages.
- Easily transform a list. Also a feature of Excel.
- Materialize, a new front-end framework based on Google’s material design.
- Graphical linear algebra- a work in progress, only 4 episodes right now.
- Intro to networking in C.
- Intro to data science in Python.
- Agar.io, fun blog game.
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HN 249 »
Things learned today:
- Growth Geeks is a service to quickly grow a business recommended by Blaine.
- Insights on getting a web dev job.
- Meet up to code and learn. Google: “web development meetups in [x]”, Meetup.com, LinkedIn.
- Ask good questions. Some examples.
- A guide to flexbox, and some help in centering elements with CSS.
- Trains stay on track because they don’t have a differential.
- Book: Automate the boring stuff with Python.
- PostCSS, a CSS parser. It provides an API that modular plugins can use to work with CSS.
- Schemaverse, a space strategy game that is played with PostgreSQL commands.
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Cross Browser Testing »
Things learned today:
- Word of the day: Halcyon - A time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful. Greek origin.
- Avoid getting spammed from your personal site. Favorite method is using client-side JS to populate the mailto href and div content.
- Tips for cross browser testing. Two good options are BrowserStack or SauceLabs. Signed up for SauceLabs with a free account.
- Browsersync is a free tool to reload multiple browsers at the same time.
- Browserling is a free online VM service.
- Videos from PyCon 2015.
- Make sure to test sites at large resolutions as well. Can test CSS changes in devtools from here.
- Recommendations for UI fonts include Lucida Grande, Verdana, Fira Sans, Roboto, Ubuntu, & Segoe UI.
- A talk by Yanis Varoufakis, current finance minister of Greece, giving his thoughts on economic recovery in Europe.
- The conception of the EU was intended to be both monetary and political, but the founders knew that a political union would fail. Their hope was that given a monetary union, an inevitable crisis would bring the nations closer together politically. However, this has been the opposite of what has happened.
- The story of how scurvy was cured twice.
- The Socratic method is a good way to engage students when a topic has a logical nature. It is hard to create a lesson in this way and requires preparation.
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Gimp and HN »
Things learned today:
- Good article on self reflection.
- Examples of interactive development in action.
- Advice on startups. See points 57 and 59 for reading suggestions.
- Another Git resource - Git from the Bottom Up
- Tutorial to learn about WebGL. One of the biggest downsides right now is lack of mobile support.
- 10 Commandments of Sushi- A cool place to visit in Tokyo and some movie recs in the comments.
- Motivation follows action.
- Titon, a less opinionated alternative to bootstrap.
- Added this blog to FeedBurner to track RSS numbers. To get FeedBurner to update immediately, visit this page.
- Book recommendation: Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahnemann, vs. Influence by Cialdini. Some science book recommendations.
- Locations of “Who is hiring? posts on HN.
- Paste from clipboard in GIMP with Cmd+Shift+V, and export image with Cmd+Shift+E.