Totally Awesome Hiking Journals
Check out the images of some awesome journaling of a guys experiences on the Pacific Crest Trail, complete with sketches and in-journal ephemera.
Posted 1 month ago
Advice for Beginners
Want to be good at something? It takes a lot of work you probably wont be satisfied with to get there. But if you keep working at it, eventually you will get somewhere - not always where you hope to be but something that impresses yourself on the other side. Don’t give up.
Posted 1 month ago
Folks ask me what programming is like - I think this song is a good example… listen to the lyrics as your thoughts digs deeper with recursion.
Programming is a lot of problem solving and exploring options. Of course, just like this song, it sometimes becomes an earworm - where, in your dreams, you get stuck trying to solve weird problems all night…
Posted 1 month ago
b.jonw.com: Making a physical product.
I had been kicking around the idea for some kind of space themed dice game for a while. I thought it would be a really nice metaphor for what actually happens when galaxies are formed. The dice represent balls of matter floating around the universe. Sometimes they bump into other balls of matter…
Posted 1 month ago
coalesce() - MySQL
Its those little things you discover that brightens your day. COALESCE makes so much more sense than ISNULL… What it does is return the first non null value in a list of expressions, if all are null, returns null.
i.e.
SELECT
COALESCE(joinedtable.date, tabel1.date, ”) AS date
Posted 2 months ago
Posted 2 months ago
HAPPY PI DAY!
Etched some festive decor on our pi(e) before baking„, might have been more effective if I dripped food coloring in the grooves.
Posted 2 months ago
Install It Maybe - A programmer version of Call Me Maybe
Posted 2 months ago
Coffitivity Ambient Cafe Sound
Creates a busy cafe/coffee shop ambient sound to play as a background to your favorite music, this adds a buffer from distracting noises while you are working.
So far I like it, especially paired with with nice mellow jazz like from Play Misty For Me ( http://listen.radionomy.com/play-misty-for-me.m3u )
The combination also reminds me of one of the After Dark screensavers… can’t recall the name kinda like a city sidewalk thing.
Posted 2 months ago
some creative ramblings
