Today was a day on the road. I needed to pick up a few things to improve my road trip setup (mainly aux cable for the music and a bluetooth headset for safe phone calls), and then I was on the road. Unfortunately this detour got me started a few hours late, and instead of … Continue reading Day 5: LA -> Las Vegas
I started today off by working in a coffeeshop called Intelligentsia in Venice Beach. My computer died there, and they also had blocked off all of the outlets, so I needed to go somewhere else. A guy a met who was working next to me (he was a writer) recommended that I drive up the 1 … Continue reading Day 4: LA
Today I was in LA. I started off the day by doing a workshop at Compton High School. We had about 40 students at the workshop, and it went really well! I got all of the students started with Karel, and I think everyone was surprised by how much they enjoyed it. Even the teacher gave … Continue reading Day 3: LA
Today was a day in LA. I started by visiting the Snapchat offices, and then headed over to El Segundo, CA to do a workshop at El Segundo High School with the programming club. It was the first workshop of the trip, so I wasn’t quite sure how it was going to go–but it went … Continue reading Day 2: LA
Today is day 1 of the road trip. I’ll be sharing some fun details along the way here on my blog, as well as some photos on jkeesh.tumblr.com, but mainly, you should follow Karel at karelthedog.com and @KarelTheDog on twitter for the latest updates. Karel and I will be travelling around the country, seeing the … Continue reading Day 1: SF -> LA
There have been many, many comments and emails on my post “Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For?” telling me that Facebook has changed things and the bookmarklet is broken. I have made an update that you can find here which will work for users with Facebook Graph Search. They have changed a bunch … Continue reading Updated Facebook Friends Ranking Bookmarklet to Work with Graph Search
I encourage everyone to blog about random bugs and fixes that they have. As the sayings go, most of us on the internet are consumers, not producers. Most of the time you have a problem as you are coding, you are googling for the answer or searching on stack overflow–not necessarily writing a new question. … Continue reading Why Blog About Random Bugs and Fixes
My email inbox has reached notification overload. Let me give you an example. I searched my gmail for from:twitter, and got so many results, that when gmail listed the number of pages, it just said “many.” I would get many twitter emails a day, despite trying each time to unsubscribe. The key factor: I clicked … Continue reading Notification Overload
After reading this article, I went and changed all of my passwords. I usually read security articles like this and skim over them…feeling a bit bummed that it happened, but not really taking it seriously. This one was bad. Take these few highlighted quotes from the early part of the article: In many ways, this was … Continue reading Why You Should Use Rule-Based Passwords
In an earlier post, I wrote about how I do very, very lightweight deployment with git. I found myself doing this over and over again, so here is a little script that does it for you. Now getting your local code on your server is as easy as: server$ python create_repo.py repo.git /your/checkout/directory/ local$ git … Continue reading An Easier Way to Set Up Remote Git Repositories for Lightweight Deployment