The Tao of Programming
A novice asked the Master: “Here is a programmer that never designs, documents or tests his programs. Yet all who know him consider him one of the best programmers in the world. Why is this?” The...
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The game is called “Damage Control”. Who wants to play? David Sparshott Damage control is an excruciating, highly addictive game that among my friends has destroyed relationships, rekindled others,...
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Instant Closeness: software for generating interpersonal closeness between...
In the January 9th New York Times Fashion & Style section, there was a charming article by Mandy Len Catron called “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This“. In it, she talks about some research...
View ArticleHow I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music – Issue 21: Information –...
Good stuff. http://ift.tt/1EeNUW1 On a warm day in April 2013, I was sitting in a friend’s kitchen in Paris, trying to engineer serendipity. I was trying to get my… Click here for the full article...
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You really should install Signal on your phone. Seriously.
Do this: Right now, take out your smartphone (presuming you use one that runs iOS or Android.) Go to your app store of choice (or just follow this link) and install an app called Signal. It’s free....
View ArticleModule creator for Drupal 7
Hey, so if you’re working with Drupal 7, particularly doing module development, you might find yourself find-and-replacing on the same kind of boilerplate code to set up a new module every time. Well,...
View ArticleImplementing the Factory pattern with Laravel 5.4 and Eloquent
Ok, so this particular problem took me a while to solve, but it turns out to be a useful technique, at least in my case, so I’m reproducing it here in the hopes that if you’re searching around on the...
View ArticleCircleCI local debugging tips
Recently, I’ve been working with CircleCI for doing some automation and testing work, and I’ve been trying to run things locally on my machine, rather than pushing everything up to CircleCI to have it...
View ArticleGet the contents of a single file on Github using Guzzle and PHP
Recently I found myself needing to get most recent content of a single file from a private Github repo. It took me a while to figure out how to make it work using Guzzle, but once I got it, it was...
View ArticleHomeassistant and Zigbee2MQTT on a QNAP NAS – USB dongle problems
I’ve been recently playing with getting Zigbee2MQTT working on my QNAP network attached storage device, and I ran into an interesting problem. In my case, I am running an QNAP TS-451+ with QTS...
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