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Deconstruct 2017 - Stronger Communities
Apr 21, 2017Deconstruct 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... -
Converting Atmospheric CO₂
May 19, 2016I 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... -
Advent of Code
Dec 19, 2015I’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... -
Multiple Foreign Keys
Jul 31, 2014I’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... -
The Case Against Frameworks
Apr 20, 2014This 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... -
Sandbox your external scripts
Mar 29, 2014Fonts 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... -
Re-evaluating Online Universities
Jan 11, 2014Here’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... -
Accidental CMS
Nov 29, 2013When 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... -
The World is Immutable
Nov 28, 2013Interesting slide deck here called Clojure: The JFDI language I haven’t done any Clojure programming, but I have done some lisp (sbcl) and Haskell, so this off-the-cuff remark caught my attention:
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