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Looking back at 2018, I’m stunned how much it had to offer. I spent most of it on a sabbatical, and working on startup projects. Here are some highlights. This might seem like bragging. I realize it’s rare to have it so good, and for many people it’s not the case. I’d like to look at everything I got and experienced this year through the lens of gratefulness. I’ve worked a lot in the preceding years to be able to afford this, yet, I am ....
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My favorite books out of the 103 books (~35,000 pages) that I read in 2018: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction The Baroque Cycle ( Quicksilver , The Confusion , System of the World ) — Rich, resplendent, and towering, this series of three (or eight, depending on how you count) books soars from the Glorious Revolution to the Court of the Sun King to rambunctious adventures around the globe. Filled with scientific references, hist....
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My favorite books out of the 103 books (~35,000 pages) that I read in 2018: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction The Baroque Cycle ( Quicksilver , The Confusion , System of the World ) — Rich, resplendent, and towering, this series of three (or eight, depending on how you count) books soars from the Glorious Revolution to the Court of the Sun King to rambunctious adventures around the globe. Filled with scientific references, hist....
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Have you ever heard about txti.es ? It’s a basic web page creator. You can basically create a very simple website by typing content into a form. I thought it might be used as a very simple frontend. I always dabbled with automation. An example would be a scraping script that gets the job postings from a specific website or one that checks when the bus I take every morning leaves and sends this information by e-mail.
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I’m learning Swift. Some minor grievances I have with the language: Things That Bother Me About Swift
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When I was a student in MIT, I took a walk on Massachusetts Avenue, across the Harvard bridge. It’s a long bridge which separates Boston from Cambridge, Massachusetts. As I crossed into Boston and I walked about a mile further, I noticed the Christian Science Plaza. It was beautiful. A large ornate church next to reflection pool. A little pocket of spaciousness in crowded Boston. It looked splendid. I didn’t like getting inside churche....
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This post aims to demystify bitwise operations in JavaScript, as they can be useful for a myriad of applications. They are also very useful, for example, when building emulators, an exercise I'd defi...
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This post aims to demystify bitwise operations in JavaScript, as they can be useful for a myriad of applications. They are also very useful, for example, when building emulators, an exercise I'd defi...
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Used my phone to take a handful of photos of an article from a magazine. Wanted to convert the images to a searchable pdf on macOS. This was straightforward, having already installed tesseract . for i in IMG_3*.jpg; do echo $i; tesseract $i $(basename $i .tif) pdf; done Should now have a handful of OCR'd pdfs: ls *.jpg.pdf IMG_3104.jpg.pdf IMG_3105.jpg.pdf IMG_3106.jpg.pdf IMG_3107.jpg.pdf Finally, join all pdfs into one. Turns ou..
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1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free | Open Culture . BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource • Research & Education Space . Libro.fm (Libro.fm, Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks) . Online Courses & Lectures for Home Study and Lifelong Learning . The best free cultural and educational media on the web (Open Culture) .
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Japan: The Cookbook (Nancy Singleton Hachisu) . Japanese Farm Food (Nancy Singleton Hachisu) . Preserving the Japanese Way (Nancy Singleton Hachisu) .
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Wanted to send a pdf to my kindle for some holiday reading. You can easily do this by emailing the pdf to your kindle-bound email address. Now, I typically attach files when composing mu4e emails by using mml-attach-file , which attaches the file using <#part>…<#/part> . However, the Amazon service did not find the attached pdf, so no pdf was added to my Kindle. Fortunately, I found a handy Reddit thread, leding me to a working solut..
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As 2018 is coming to and end, I have decided to review my year. Talks One of my major goals for 2018 was to focus and improve my public speaking skills. Specifically, I wanted to do my first talk at an international conference. I created a spreadsheet with a bunch of events that were interesting to me, such as Gophercon US, Gophercon UK, KubeCons and so on. I organized them by CFP dates and tried to come up with a few topics for each of..
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Validate your passwords using Elixir and haveibeenpwned.com's API
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you probably know what two-factor authentication (2FA) is.
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6 years ago this video came out. At the time I couldn’t code yet. This concept is still mind blowing to me. Up until now I always thought about code as a collection of files, connected through imports. But really we import functions, not files. We use files to store code because they’re a convenient way to serialize code. They’re not the best representation, in fact functions might provide a better one.
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In my hands is a Cisco AIR-CAP-3502-E-A-K9 that I saved from the landfill. After about eight hours of suffering, and what was surely a cancer causing dose of RF-radiation , I now know: How to convince this access point to provide me with wifi. Why Cisco products are probably best left in the garbage. What follows is my setup guide and review for using a Cisco Aironet device. This guide will likely be useful with other models ..
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In my hands is a Cisco AIR-CAP-3502-E-A-K9 that I saved from the landfill. After about eight hours of suffering, and what was surely a cancer causing dose of RF-radiation , I now know: How to convince this access point to provide me with wifi. Why Cisco products are probably best left in the garbage. What follows is my setup guide and review for using a Cisco Aironet device. This guide will likely be useful with other models ..
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Introduction A primary responsibility of the data science team at the AdRoll Group is to determine what we should bid in real-time auctions for ad inventory. Among other things, our bid price is dependent on the type of auction in which we are participating. Second-price auctions, where the highest bidder wins and pays the second highest bid price, are popular in ad tech because they incentivize bidders, such as AdRoll, to bid their true....
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At the end of each year, I take some time to reflect on the previous year - it provides perspective, and is a lot of fun! For me, 2018 was the year I spent a lot of time improving myself physically, challenging myself mentally, and most importantly, enjoying life! On the personal side, I cut out the bad foods from my diet: breads starches alcohol On top of this, I upped my indoor and outdoor exercise to lose a whopping 85 pounds sin..
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At the end of each year, I take some time to reflect on the previous year - it provides perspective, and is a lot of fun! For me, 2018 was the year I spent a lot of time improving myself physically, challenging myself mentally, and most importantly, enjoying life! On the personal side, I cut out the bad foods from my diet: breads starches alcohol On top of this, I upped my indoor and outdoor exercise to lose a whopping 85 pounds sin..
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Needed to import some csv data to an org table. Turns out org's got you covered out of the box with M-x org-table-create-or-convert-from-region bound to C-c | .
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