Here’s a few notes for future reference for setting up a new mac laptop. I am setting up a new MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports), 16GB RAM. In terms of getting our codebase working, we’ve improved that process a lot using a tool called Strap ( https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap and https://macos-strap.herokuapp.com/ ) — which helps get a few basic things … Continue reading Notes for Setting Up A New Mac
I put together a post a couple years ago trying to compare neighborhoods across cities: https://medium.com/jeremy-keeshin/neighborhood-comparisons-across-cities-200b7bb6f864 I’ve recently put together a simple website/tool that lets you actually go in and enter your own comparisons of neighborhoods between cities, and then aggregates the results. Try out the site here: http://neighborhood.thekeesh.com/ You can select which cities you want to … Continue reading Site for Neighborhood Comparisons Across Cities
So I had a server on Linode that I had not updated for a while, and it was running Ubuntu 11.04 — which was so old that it was no longer easy for me to just update the OS from that server. Essentially, all the tools to upgrade that OS were so out of date that I … Continue reading Migrating an old Linode on Ubuntu 11.08 to Ubuntu 18.04
Ok, so I have wanted to set up HTTPS on my personal sites for a long time now, but I haven’t done so. I also hadn’t really explored how to do it yet. I had heard about LetsEncrypt but when I had tried it on my server I ran into some road blocks since it … Continue reading Trying to Set Up HTTPS for Free with LetsEncrypt and CertBot
Trump should be impeached. He should have been impeached a month ago, six months ago, a year ago, and still today. What particular point are we waiting for to say, “ok, now this is too much — ok, this isn’t ok?” We’re so far past that and we’ve been past that point for a while. Say you have … Continue reading Impeaching Trump — What are We Waiting For?
I recently published my top 5–10 year trends, which are: Computer Science Education Distributed Work Cryptocurrency I thought it would also be fun to write up my top 10–20 year trends. The timescales could be wildly off on all of these but these are some things I expect to start and then become big in the … Continue reading My Top 10–20 Year Trends
We’re excited to be launching the first online blended Introduction to Cybersecurity course for K12 this fall at CodeHS. Each week in the news you’ll hear about a new cyber attack, or a major company or organization that was hacked. In a connected digital world, this has become commonplace. But as important data moves increasingly … Continue reading With the CodeHS Cybersecurity Course, Teach Your Students, Practical, Applicable Digital Skills
For people who are just starting to learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain I wanted to compile a list of resources I found to be very helpful in learning about it. Here’s a short list! This is just a beginning, but there is lot’s more to read about. Whitepapers Bitcoin Whitepaper The original bitcoin whitepaper … Continue reading Getting Started Resources for Cryptocurrency
A young woman read a powerful poem at the Stockton Scholars launch event which I attended a couple of days ago in Stockton, CA. Her poem was about her father, who was being deported. He had moved to the country, and lived there, now having to move four times — to the US, and out, and to … Continue reading Poem at Stockton Scholars Event
Here’s a few travel notes from my trip to Thailand and Cambodia. I got a lot of helpful recs before I went and so here are a few of the tips and notes I had. I did a two week trip to a lot of cities — probably too many cities for that period of time. The … Continue reading Thailand/Cambodia Travel Notes
