A friend asked for advice for her son on how to choose which college to attend. Here’s my $0.02. (Note: Most of my examples are technical-related, because that's what I know.) The things you get from college are, from most to least important: … [Read more]
Learning Foreign Languages with Fluent Forever
I've followed Tim Ferriss since the first release of The Four Hour Work Week. He's taken his share of criticism, and his huge success has given him a bit of an excessive reputation, but he is world class at showing how to break down a problem and … [Read more]
Kia-Fu Lee, AI, and Sinophilia
I'm a heavy consumer of media. I called it learning, but even if it was tech stuff or business stuff or whatever, I realized that because I wasn't writing anything down or changing anything about my life or career, it was the equivalent of watching … [Read more]
Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle – Brandon Hays
I was recommended this 35 minute talk from the Mountain West Ruby 2016 conference, and I wanted to share my notes. It captures feelings I've had about the pace of technology change, with the rise of Javascript frameworks over the last 4 years. It's a … [Read more]
Learning iOS, Swift Part 1
I'm about a week into learning iOS and Swift 2.0 and I am pleased and impressed. For reference, I'm using this course (currently $59 on StackSocial). This week, I went through the basic Swift language sections and lessons about creating a basic … [Read more]
Finding Things Fast in Emacs
I use emacs, and it is super powerful, but out of the box, it has some rough edges. Finding files in stock emacs isn't great. I used to use a plugin called find-things-fast (https://github.com/eglaysher/find-things-fast), but a previous employer … [Read more]
Starting to Learn iOS, Swift
I have a project idea that has been bugging me for years, and I finally feel like it's time to work on it. It's an app, with a server-side back end. In the past I had been focused on startups and making a business, but I realized that at this point … [Read more]
Faking an ActiveRecord Attribute
Recently, I had a problem in Rails that took some extra research to solve. In the process, I read numerous StackOverflow posts, mailing list posts dating back to 2008, and tried, like, a million things before coming to a fairly clean solution. The … [Read more]
#sfcljs August Meetup – Om vs Reagent vs Quiescent, Converting to Om
[UPDATE: Added links to slides for some of the talks] ClojureScript is my new toy, so I was glad to see the San Francisco ClojureScript Meetup plan a new event, and all of the talks were about Om, which made it even better. It was a great event at … [Read more]
Notes on Core.Async Webinar
Recently, David Nolen of Cognitect held a webinar about "Designing Front End Applications Using core.async". I'm a huge fan of David's teaching style (see his tutorials on Enlive, LightTable+ClojureScript, Om Basic and Om Intermediate) so I cleared … [Read more]