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13 Feb

Learning What to Learn While Learning (What?) — A Lesson in Classic Greek

I’m striving slowly to pick up a little classical Greek, as a tool to aid study in other disciplines (philosophy, history, at al). It’s obviously a fascinating language with a fascinating history, but despite many corollaries to English (vice versa,...
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23 Oct

What I Learned This Week (Ending 10/22)

I am perennially poor at maintaining habits, but they say start out small, so I’m attempting a weekly recap of what I learn each week (aimed, in general, at the world of computing, software development, and technology). This is week...
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5 Oct

Make Failure a Benefit: Harness the Misery of Rejection

Yes, this is in response to a recent event. No, I don’t want to talk about it — but I should. Recognize failure out loud, and you become its master. You apply for a job, you carefully craft your...
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26 Sep

Developers Need Better Onboarding — Make Learning a Guarantee

Initial setup: Most systems need setup. Don’t even discuss work before this gets completed. Make sure the new dev is where they need to be. Stressing out about getting work done while struggling to get your system working is a...
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21 Sep

Learning ReactJS, Part 1– Steps & Takeaways

This past March, I discovered my javascript skills felt out of date. I needed to catch up, so I learned Angular — took an online course, built a couple of minor projects, did some freelance work that used it. It...
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18 Aug

Today’s Little Git Adventure

Today’s lesson: pull before you make changes, and what do you when you forget that. The task started off well enough — branched off of master, made my changes, committed them. Ready to send my content upstream as a...
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12 Aug

More Ruby Miscellanea

I like to chronicle the little discoveries and revelations in my day’s work. It helps keep me clearheaded, gives me a reference for later, and lets me share my knowledge with the world. Granted, in large part, these “discoveries” have...
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27 Jun

“I need to use Emacs and I’m in a hurry.”

Emacs is one of those classic Linux tools that feels like you can keep learning it forever. Compact, extensible, and crammed with features, Emacs lets you grow into it over time. Your first time using Emacs should be...
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24 Jun

To Learn a New Programming Language, Start Over

Programmers take pride in their ability to learn new skills easily, relying on long-ingrained concepts and abstracted methodologies to pick up a new way of working with minimum difficulty. Switching smoothly between tools, languages, or environments is certainly an ability...
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14 Mar

Discrete Math for Computer Programming — Where Do I Start?

If you’re studying programming or computer science, you know discrete math is a core competency for developing software. Simple enough if you’re enrolled in college or a code school — discrete math is built right in, usually as...
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