Monday, May 27, 2019

Parents are spending thousands on YouTube camps that teach kids how to be famous

https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/youtube-camps/
There's something seriously wrong here.

High Level Overview of Apache Spark

https://hackernoon.com/high-level-overview-of-apache-spark-c225a0a162e9
Block-diagram view of Spark.

I Have 15 ideas To Change Your Life. Do you Have 5 Minutes?

https://medium.com/swlh/i-have-15-ideas-to-change-your-life-do-you-have-5-minutes-4c29bc386239
Life lessons we learn too late.

tiptap – a renderless rich-text editor for Vue.js

https://tiptap.scrumpy.io/
Kinda like tinyMCE, but for vue.

The Klipsch Audio Community

https://community.klipsch.com/
Klipsch has community forums. Who knew?

Managing state in Vue.js with Vuex

https://medium.com/@daaaan/managing-state-in-vue-js-with-vuex-f036fd71f432
vuex for managing state

Top Programming Languages to Learn in 2019

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/top-programming-languages-to-learn-in-2019-e1cad7ced3fb
Some of the old-guard like Java are fading.

A Great Guide to Audio Interfaces

https://musicstudiodiy.com/best-audio-interfaces-guide-home-studios/
So how DO you connect a microphone to a computer?

A First Antenna For HF Use

https://stationproject.blog/2013/10/07/a-first-antenna-for-hf-use/
interesting setup of a commercial antenna

How Far Out is AWS Fargate?

https://read.iopipe.com/how-far-out-is-aws-fargate-a2409d2f9bc7
An argument that AWS fargate is closer to lambda than kubernetes.

Build a side project, build an empire Startup — without quitting your day job

https://medium.com/swlh/build-a-side-project-build-an-empire-d3ffa211589c
Advice on sidehustles from the founder of jotform.com

Online Form Builder Easily create online forms.

https://www.jotform.com/
Kinda similar to wufoo

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Bring your Jupyter Notebook to life with interactive widgets

https://towardsdatascience.com/bring-your-jupyter-notebook-to-life-with-interactive-widgets-bc12e03f0916
Not many people use interactive widgets in jupyter notebooks, as there's not much documentation. Here's a start.

The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Great Designer (Part 2 of 3)

https://modus.medium.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-becoming-a-great-designer-part-2-of-3-9d79f8f30703
After the basics, it's mostly about tools and workflows.

15 Simple Ways to Become Happier and More Successful

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/15-simple-ways-to-become-happier-and-more-successful-fb46d20b9982
Basic lessons

My Favorite Data Visualization and Dataset Resources

https://dev.to/aspittel/my-favorite-data-visualization-and-dataset-resources-35kp
Short and sweet list.

Launching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/launching-today-free-wolfram-engine-for-developers/
And a ML world all to itself: the wolfram language. Now with a free developer version.

peaclock A responsive and customizable clock, timer, and stopwatch for the terminal.

https://octobanana.com/software/peaclock
Unusual command-line graphical clock.

Tinc Peer to Peer Hello World

http://troubleshooters.com/linux/tinc/hello_peer.htm
Detailed intro to the tinc p2p vpm