Posts

• 7/4 » Jul 4, 2015

  Things learned since last post:

  • Cool word watch: Anaphora - The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in “I like it and so do they.”
  • List of free programming books.
  • Free official Raspberry Pi magazine.
  • Press coverage for a tech startup.
  • How to make open offices suck less.
  • Life as a clown in 2015.
  • Facebook Messenger enables location sharing by default.
  • The death of Dean Potter.
  • The woes of American recycling.
  • Easily retrieve Youtube view data via the API.
  • The best time of day for a variety of tasks at work. A guide to happiness at work.
  • Tips for using Python with Sublime Text.
  • Cool apps of the week: Jobstart & First Opinion
  • From PG: Full phrase is “a word to the wise is sufficient.” How to go from rich to poor. Rephrase of note 2 below.
    • Those who grew up during the Great Depression certainly had a tough time. They were able to achieve remarkable things given the adversity they had to face. This reflects a basic truth about humanity - that people tend to rise to the occasion if necessary. Faced with similar obstacles and tested to their limits, I believe that other generations of Americans would be able to surmount equally difficult challenges and ultimately succeed.

• 5/09 » May 9, 2015

  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.

• Photo Recovery » Apr 27, 2015

  Things learned today:

  • To recover pictures/data:
    • use dd to make a copy of the disk image. Use a greater block size (bs=1m) to speed up the process, and use rdiskN. Look at the activity monitor to see transfer speeds.
    • Use PhotoRec to recover the photos.
    • Other options are ZAR(Windows),TestDisk, Recuva.
  • 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.

• HN 249 » Apr 22, 2015

  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.

• Cross Browser Testing » Apr 16, 2015

  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.