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I learned to program with BASIC back when I was twelve. I would write elaborate programs and run them. Invariably, they would surprise me by failing to do what I expect. I would struggle for a time, but I'd eventually give up and just accept that whatever "bugs" I had created were there to stay. … Continue reading I…
Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
I wanted to share a pretty simple setup on how to serve a Vue.js app using Github Pages. I’m writing this because I had to search around online for awhile...
A few tips to level up your vim editing skills from beginner to intermediate.
Saagar Jha's website.
Visualizations are awesome.
Xubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo” is just around the corner. It features numerous updates and an updated snapshot of Xfce 4.14 development.
When all you have is a hammer, everything in the world starts to look like a nail. Twenty five years of doing analysis and helping others do analysis has shown me that there are at least three diff…
Think better. Grow your audience. Accelerate your career.
In 2017, I wrote a series of articles about diff and merge algorithms, and promised that one day they would form part of a book about the Git version control system. In 2018 I didn’t write anything at all on this blog, and that’s because I was writing that book.
Take note of the title of this blog. What you read below will give you some additional knowledge that may help you identify a hidden camera but it certainly won’t guarantee that. We got lucky…
daverowntree has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.
A portable development environment, from editor to dependencies.
Idempotence means duplicates don't matter. It means you can safely retry an operation with no issues. The classic example is the elevator button: you press it twice and it does not call two elevators. We explore why we would want that property in an email server.
Shaping When laying out text using a font file, the code points in the string are mapped one-to-one to glyphs inside the file. A glyph...
I'll be wording this post carefully as What 3 Words (W3W) have a tenacious PR team and, probably, have a lot more lawyers than I do. W3W is a closed product. It is a for-profit company masquerading as an open standard. And that annoys me. A brief primer. The world is a sphere. We can reference any point on the surface…
Note: This post is from 2019— you can find my 2020 update here . I'm making over $400 / month with my music — mostly through Spotify. Of course that’s not enough to support a full-time artist but that’s not what I’m trying to be. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a label. I j
Logs from the application level are the only way your application talks back to you. Having proper logs with commendable search capabilities is like having a torch in a dark room.
Harris Kenny, founder of OutboundSync. A little ode to a computing journey.
Autocompleting text with known values seems like an easy problem to solve, but so so so many UIs get it wrong. I see this frequently enough that, rather than complain about them individually, I though I’d just write down the set of rules they often break.
I purchased an iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard and Pencil to use as my main computer. Can it replace my local workstation? Is it powerful enough for my day-to-day tasks? Let's find out.
How to build a free, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
