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The door desk is a well known part of Amazon's culture but there is an unknown part that has a larger impact on how the company operates.
25 March 2018 — Splootysplotty: Open Source Alternative to Lewis Carroll's JabberwockyA trend in the open source community is to use cute naming of well known concepts for a project. This is a satire of that based on Lewis Carroll's famous work.
11 October 2017 — An Email from Edsger Dijkstra's SonMarcus Dijkstra came across my blog post on how I improved my handwriting and used Edsger's as inspiration. He sent me an email with more details about how Edsger maintained his script.
20 June 2016 — Iowa, Pigs, Microchips, and Founding Silicon ValleyRobert Noyce was the creator of the microchip, cofounder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, and was one of the people that created Silicon Valley. He grew up in Iowa like I did and it turns out a single pig almost thwarted and changed the future of technology.
29 November 2015 — The Bram Moole-Laaw: There Will be Attempts to Rewrite Vim in Nearly Every New LanguageAn attempt at naming the Vim rewrite phenomenon that we all have seen.
22 August 2015 — Self Documenting Vim Key MappingsA little trick to be able to list and view all key mappings that are grouped. It works great for custom plugin mappings.
07 March 2015 — Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned in my High School Calculus ClassI learned a lot through my high school years growing up but I learned the most in my class of Precalculus and Calculus during my last two years. It set the foundation for everything later in my life.
13 February 2015 — Why I BlogIt has been over four months since I last blogged. It has been the longest draught since I started blogging. This is a reminder to myself why I blog.
11 October 2014 — The Similarity of the World in Gattaca and the World Elon Musk EnvisionsI explore some of the interesting similarities between the world in Gattaca and the world that Elon Musk dreams of.
03 October 2014 — Heavy-handed HackerNews: Mods are Unnecessarily Editing Titles and Swapping URLsSome recent events on HackerNews got me a bit frustrated over how some admins are moderating the site.
26 July 2014 — Oh-my-zsh is the Disease and Antigen is the VaccineI used oh-my-zsh for years but finally got fed up with the slow issue resolution and rate of development. Antigen is a far better solution for managing your zsh configuration. I take a look at why it is better and how to set it up in this post.
30 June 2014 — GitHub + University: A Follow UpRevisiting my previous post on using GitHub for College.
13 June 2014 — Put Yourself Out There: The Myth of the Genius ProgrammerA year ago I decided to put myself out there and face my fear of being vulnerable by starting a blog. I look at what has happened since then and how great of an experience it has been.
15 May 2014 — Josh Uses ThisMy attempt at mimicking UsesThis.com and listing what hardware and software I use in my current setup.
12 April 2014 — A Beginner's Tutorial for knitrknitr is a way to write LaTeX, HTML, and Markdown with R code interlaced. knitr seamlessly adds code, charts, and anything else that R can do straight into the document. This tutorial explains the basics of it.
05 April 2014 — Vim Tab Madness. Buffers vs TabsVim's buffers vs tabs is a hot topic. Vim's idea of what a tab is leads to a lot of confusion and is actually really limiting. Using buffers correctly is far more powerful. I explore that in this post as I was confused for a long time by it.
15 March 2014 — My New Site to Demand Two Factor Auth SupportTwo factor auth is available on a lot of websites but missing for some very important ones. We need to encourage best practice standards for all companies that have sensitive data. This website helps with that.
12 February 2014 — Doing Your Homework in LaTeXUsing LaTeX to write up your homework for university isn't as hard as some people think. In fact it has quite a few benefits, I discuss them here.
19 January 2014 — GitHub + University: How College Coding Assignments Should WorkLooking at how to use GitHub for college programming assignments and how to simplify the workflow.
30 September 2013 — The Differences Between Imperative and Functional Programming. Part 1.An explanation of imperative and functional programming paradigms. Part 2 will include pros and cons and example code.
31 August 2013 — Never Save Anything for the Swim Back. Ever.I put my mantra, 'I never save anything for the swim back', everywhere. I finally explain where it came from and why it means so much to me.
11 August 2013 — My Favorite Elon Musk QuoteElon Musk, the visionary behind Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has a cool quote at SXSW 13, he said he tries to put someone's heart above their brain when evaluating someone.
24 July 2013 — C: A Minute to Learn... A Lifetime to MasterThe C syntax can be deceptively simple at first. Yet it has features (such as pointers) that create complexity. We explore that a bit and uncover some resources that help "master" C.
17 July 2013 — Where Do I Sign Up to Change the World?If there's only one thing I'm certain about in my life, it's that I want to leave this world having made it a better place than when I came into it.
07 July 2013 — Verification is Often Easier than CreationA quote in a textbook chapter talking about P vs NP got me thinking about what it means for something to work well.
01 July 2013 — Program to an Interface, FoolExplanation of the classic saying of 'program to an interface' with an example in the Rust programming language.
22 June 2013 — Phil Zimmermann, Creator of PGP, Quote on Government & Crypto from 1996Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, successfully predicted an incident similar to the one happening right now with PRISM and the NSA over 17 years ago.
16 June 2013 — The Rise of the Gang of Four with RustHow a classic book on OOP is being brought back to life with the Rust programming language.
09 June 2013 — The Legacy of the Clicky KeyboardsHow I started to love clicky keyboards and ended up buying one of my own.
02 June 2013 — The New Google Maps User ExperienceSome thoughts and musings about the new Google Maps interface.
27 May 2013 — The Difference Between TDD and BDDExplanation of the difference between TDD and BDD using an example in JavaScript.
20 May 2013 — The Path to Dijkstra's HandwritingHow I used Edsger W. Dijkstra's handwriting as a model to improve mine.
11 May 2013 — The Beginning of a Beautiful BlogshipHow I went from trying to hide on the internet to fully embracing it.