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It’s been 2 years working remotely as a Software Engineer at NextRoll, a tech company in Silicon Valley. When I started the journey to find a new job, I’ve never aimed to be working in the U.S. center of innovative technology companies. I didn’t think I could be the first Latina working remotely in one of these companies either. I was simply motivated to be open to new challenges. 25 minute read “What if?” Since the beginning of my car....
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I combined elements from two recipes: 3 Ingredient oatmeal cookies (The Food Medic) , Amy's Healthy Banana Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Amy's Healthy Baking) and added my own touches. Preheat oven Preheat the oven at 180°C. Mash bananas 2 medium ripe bananas. Mash until bananas have no significant lumps. Mix most ingredients (except oats) 4 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter. 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon. 1/2 teaspoon of ground card....
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Hashrocket - Today I Learned . jbranchaud/til: Today I Learned . secretgeek: Today I Learned . Simon Willison: TIL . til - zerokspot.com . Today I Learned — Sara Soueidan – Freelance-Front-End UI/UX Developer .
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Social distancing has shaped an increase in usage of remote working tools. One such tool is Jitsi video conferencing. In this article, I want to describe how easy it is to spin up a free video conferencing server.
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It’s always a good idea to check for security issues in code that you review. In case you don’t know what to look for, here’s a handy checklist to give you pointers for your next code reviews!
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Over the past few years I have been participating in Stand-up meetings and it took me some time to find a convenient and effective way for keeping notes about what I was doing every day. I needed to be able to: keep notes on the issues I worked on, the meetings I participated in and stuff that blocked my work easily access these notes based on their date have an overview of what I did for example the last week all of the above from in....
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Over the past few years I have been participating in Stand-up meetings and it took me some time to find a convenient and effective way for keeping notes about what I was doing every day. I needed to be able to: keep notes on the issues I worked on, the meetings I participated in and stuff that blocked my work easily access these notes based on their date have an overview of what I did for example the last week all of the above from in....
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Over the past few years I have been participating in Stand-up meetings and it took me some time to find a convenient and effective way for keeping notes about what I was doing every day. I needed to be able to: keep notes on the issues I worked on, the meetings I participated in and stuff that blocked my work easily access these notes based on their date have an overview of what I did for example the last week all of the above from in....
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Over the past few years I have been participating in Stand-up meetings and it took me some time to find a convenient and effective way for keeping notes about what I was doing every day. I needed to be able to: keep notes on the issues I worked on, the meetings I participated in and stuff that blocked my work easily access these notes based on their date have an overview of what I did for example the last week all of the above from in....
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As I read Tomas Petricek’s On architecture, urban planning and software construction , it reminded me of an interesting point Dan Luu made in How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written : “There’s a dearth of real, in-depth, technical writing, which makes any half decent, honest, public writing about technical work interesting.” Tomas’ piece reminded me of this not because it lacks substance, but rather for the opposite re....
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Modeling human behavior with physical laws - Introduction Where is the intersection of social-economic behavior and mathematics? Is it possible to use fundamental equations to model population behavior? A while back a colleague, Kevin James, and I created an interactive report detailing a hypothetical forced migration scenario in Yemen. That report gave a high-level graphic overview of...
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Modeling human behavior with physical laws - Introduction Where is the intersection of social-economic behavior and mathematics? Is it possible to use fundamental equations to model population behavior? A while back a colleague, Kevin James, and I created an interactive report detailing a hypothetical forced migration scenario in Yemen. That report gave a high-level graphic overview of...
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Taking Control of One's Workaholic Tendencies - The IT Anonymous Edition
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fuzzyblog.io
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6 years ago
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eng
Please start by picturing a support group similar to Alcoholics Anonymous; Let's call it IT Anonymous : A dingy room in a church somewhere A coffee pot Cookies or donuts Chairs in a semi circle A place for people to stand and address the group We all know the drill - we've seen this scene a thousand times in movies or TV. And then you see me stand and address the group: Hi. I'm Scott. and the group responds with a chorus of: ....
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Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over , because PC upgrades have gotten really boring . It took 5 years for me to muster
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Create a RESTful API using Node and Express with MySQL Database
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www.9lessons.info
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6 years ago
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eng
Node Express web framework is a best solution to create RESTful APIs in quick time. Previously we published some concepts with different technologies like PHP and Java. This article will explain to you a more simple way to use external plugins to enrich your project APIs. Here you will find to create GET and POST requests with request payload validations to protect the endpoints.
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NET 5 brings support for Windows Task Dialog to Windows Forms, and that is relevant for a number of reasons.
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mu/mu4e 1.4 is out . About a week ago, I built and installed its pre-release version (1.3.10) and noted build steps on macOS . It's been working great for me. Today, I updated to 1.4. I was keen to try the new release out. I had been experiencing a short delay immediately after syncing/indexing mail. An initial investigation pointed to contact syncing, but I didn't dig further. The 1.4 release notes had a promising entry: In many c....
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I've come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than…
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Doing the nand2tetris course is an extremely enlightning experience into the world of computers. The course starts from the simplest building block, the “NAND” operators and helps you step by step to building a modern, functioning computer, OS and tetris Game. The NAnd block stands for Not And. It takes two binary inputs, A and B and outputs true only if they both aren’t true. A B Output 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 To d..
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I am unsure if my love of automation comes from a dislike of doing the same thing twice or an overall desire to be more productive and make everything more efficient. Like a lot of programmers, I often ask myself “can this be scripted” when I find myself doing a manual task. I was inspired recently by reading Wolfram’s writing on his personal infrastructure for productivity 1 . I, too, have written about my personal infrastructure 2 ,....
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Discovering Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and government agencies
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ailef.tech
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6 years ago
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eng
Update Nov 2022: the tool is temporarily back online at wikiwho.ailef.tech. I didn’t bother setting up HTTPS so if you get a connection error be sure you’re using plain HTTP (old links in the article may still point to the HTTPS version). I also released the code on GitHub if you want to have a […]
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Lot of these articles going around these days due to COVID-19, but I felt like giving my two cents since I’ve been a freelancer in the past, mostly working from home, so I know how it feels like.
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Have you ever wanted to explore using Python with electronics? CircuitPython is a great platform to get started with. This week we have Thea Flowers on the show. Thea has been creating several hardware projects based around CircuitPython, and she talks about getting started on the platform.
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I was digging around and I found the original SSV announcement posted to Dominion (the (in)famous Sisters Of Mercy Mailing list). What is SSV? Just read the letter—it explains everything. More info can be found here, here, or here, or here. Here is the email, reproduced with headers for posterity: Received: from maekong.ohm.york.ac.uk by rewind.indigita.com … Continue reading Screw Shareholder Value
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Steve and I came up hearing the same refrain: “Learn C, it’ll make you a good programmer — it’s how the computer works behind the scenes.” As he points out in his three part series , though, using C just means having a thinner abstraction layer between your code and the hardware on which it runs. That layer still exists. I do believe new developers should learn to work in this environment : understanding the code that underlies usable..
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Web browsers have supported custom plug-ins and extensions since the 1990s, giving users the ability to add their own features and tools for improving workflow or building closer integration with applications or databases running on back-end servers.
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I've been a MySQL user professionally since 1999 when I abandoned the land of Windows NT server side development due to quality abomination that was Microsoft Site Server – "sh t, fsck, censored, censored, censored — if Microsoft's quality is this bad, I may as well not pay for software." I can remember that moment with the crystal clear clarity of: a fog of comic book cursing that surrounded me as I worked in my attic garret like offi....
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Web browsers have supported custom plug-ins and extensions since the 1990s, giving users the ability to add their own features and tools for improving workflow or building closer integration with applications or databases running on back-end servers.
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I have an innate distrust of all writing advice that seem to come from a large organization. I blame academia, for all those years I spent years reading and writing the most rigid, boring prose known to man. I prefer advice from actual writers — and that’s what I found in Harry Guinness’s recent article for The New York Times, How to Edit Your own Writing . He offers some great advice, and makes some excellent book recommendations...
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initLogs 1: Swapping Numbers and Reversing Arrays in JavaScript
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www.unsungnovelty.org
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6 years ago
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eng
I am gonna start writing about my experiences of learning JavaScript. Most of the topics/posts are going to be super basic but what I would like to focus is the interesting connections or point of view I learnt. And yes, thought I would categorise the series as “InitLogs” since these are the initial code/logs a lot of us will be learning and also because it will make it easy for people to look it up in case you all did find something inte....
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This is a starting point blog post where different things I learn about using Python Kafka will be documented. Getting the Value out of a Consumer Record The output of a Python Kafka call is a Consumer Record which is a "set of named tuples (blah blah blah)" where what you actually want is the value tuple. This can be gotten with the .value attribute: #!/usr/bin/env python from kafka import KafkaConsumer consumer = Kafk..
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Introduction I have spent a career building business applications that work with databases, starting with SQL and then moving to No-SQL. I’ve been curious how Graph databases work and how to build applications with them. It seems the sweet spot for a Graph database is when your application needs to model the interrelationships of complex and different datasets. I’ve been using No-SQL databases for these types of applications so I am supe..
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Editor's Note This article was originally written by Chris Potter and me when we worked at Reaction Commerce. It was published on April 15, 2020 on the Reaction Commerce Blog. Reaction Commerce was acquired by Mailchimp and the blog has disappeared, so I'm republishing here to keep the content available. I will need to reference it myself if I ever have to do graphql pagination again. To my knowledge, this is the most in-depth and techni....
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In this post, we discuss options for ensuring the health of your Python projects, with the goal of making dependency management as straightforward as possible.
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