andyvanee

I’ve been trying to live by the following axiom for a while now: Be kind to your future self This idea was ringing in my head as I posted the previous blog post. As a developer, I am extremely bad...

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Deconstruct 2017 is over, and I’m still processing a lot of what I heard, but I did want to get a few notes down while the ideas are fresh. It came up a few times that the software community needs...

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I had an idea as I was driving today. It seems so obvious that I’m sure it has some fundamental flaw. Either that, or someone is already working on it. I’m writing this only in the hopes that a Chemist...

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I’ve really been enjoying working my way through the code challenges at http://adventofcode.com/. My solutions are here: https://github.com/andyvanee/adventofcode I’m now on day 8, and the examples...

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I’d like to document a problem that I’ve never had before, and the solution I arrived at. It was not a real complicated problem, but I got hung up on an even simpler problem. Say I want to store directories...

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This may come across as a rant, but I’m hoping I can keep this as objective as possible: I don’t like frameworks. I’m going to use a broad definition of frameworks defined like this: Any 3rd party...

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Fonts and external scripts can be a real performance killer for modern websites. This is the white-screen of death for front-end web development. Anytime a page is blocked for 0.5 or more seconds due...

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Here’s an article I read a couple days ago about the founder of Udacity and his struggle with very low success rates for online courses. http://www.fastcompany.com/3021473/udacity-sebastian-thrun-uphill...

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When I started reading this article called CMS Trap, I had no idea what the hell he was talking about. As I pushed through, I began saying ‘yes’ more and more, and by the time I was finished I had to...

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