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Doing Things for Fun, Not Profit.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been catching myself passing on fun things more and more in the pursuit of making money. I’m 34 now, and, since graduating college in 2014 (I was a late bloomer!), I’ve spent the majority of my time only focusing on things that can be financially profitable. Should we travel to Europe? Nope, not profitable. Wanna see a movie? Nope, not profitable. Wanna try this new place for dinner? Nope, I have work to do…
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Here's What Happens When You Hit the Front Page on Hacker News
On September 4, 2016 at about 7:00 PM Pacific time, I decided to share my latest side project, Postacard (now Postcard Bot), with the Hacker News community. What followed was complete, unexpected madness…
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A Pale Blue Dot
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
What's the difference between Volts, Watts, and Amps?
In a world full of technology and electronics, we are often bombarded with terms that we seldom understand. Three terms that are thrown in front of us across all electronic products we purchase today are volt (V), watt (W), and amp (A). We see them listed everywhere - but what do they mean? Let me break these down for you.
JavaScript Event Delegation
Anyone who has ever been in a technical interview for web development has undoubtedly come across the topic of event delegation. If you don’t know what event delegation is, you’ll find yourself at the embarrassing intersection of “I feel like a dumbass” and “what are you talking about?”. Let’s look at some simple javascript code (jQuery) to get a better understanding of what this is.
I Have a Blog
This is quite interesting as I never exactly thought blogging was something I’d be into, but I’m going to give it a go anyways. Truth be told, I’m not starting a blog because I want to write about things and cry to the world about my problems, I’m more interested in the software behind the scenes that’s running the show - jekyll. Jekyll is a Ruby gem that let’s me create a blog that’s completely static but acts totally dynamic. Wtf?! Yeah, that’s what I first thought. After digging into the structure a bit, I realized how friggin’ awesome it is so I gem installed that ish and now here we are. Fast. Light. Database-free. Free. You can even write some code and it supports syntax highlighting!
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