Highlights from The Creative Habit
While on vacation, I read Twyla Tharp's The Creative Habit and found that it was full of advice that could easily be applied to many creative endeavors, from building kickboxing combos to journaling to writing code. Here are some highlights from my reading, grouped by themes: Forward momentum: Any approach
Advent of Code 2018
Several Ada alumns and I are playing Advent of Code, which is like an advent calendar for coding challenges. A new level is release each day during December 1st - Dec 25th. As you progress through the levels, you unlock more of the storyline. This is my third participating, and
'Zine Subscription: 2600
My first exposure to 2600 was several years ago, when I visited Ada's Technical Books at its old location near Roy Street Coffee on Capitol Hill. They had several backcopies for sale, and I picked up an issue. This was before I started working in tech, and most of the
Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames
Recently, I was playing around with the split command-line tool on Mac OS X, and I decided to chop a 4000-line file into 4000 separate single-line files. However, when I attempted to run split -l1, I ran into a funny error: split: too many files Curious to see if any
Look Out, 2018
I saw dozens of these "me at the start of 2017" memes floating around at the close of 2017, and I couldn't help but share in some collective sense of exhaustion after a year marked by alarming US / world news, a very dynamic — sometimes dizzying — work life at