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2021-06-14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-15T01:15:48+00:00

2021-06-14 Entry What are my short term goals? * Write a blog post by 6/18/21 * Look at resources provided by The Odin Project for CSS and complete them by 6/20/21 * Read The Pragmatic Programmer by 6/20/21 Heap Today has been very slow going, but I suppose that is a Monday for you. I would like to make sure I've got time to work in a bit of The Pragmatic Programmer as well as do the cursory search for the

2021-06-15

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-16T02:51:20+00:00

2021-06-15 Entry Heap CommitStrip Low Code Comic Today is EA 2021, time to see if a new Nintendo Switch will be launched. I got my blog post cleaned up and public! Intel NUC Thermal Paste: Follow Up

2021-06-16

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-16T21:13:36+00:00

2021-06-15 Entry Heap IIf - Immediate If is a function used in visual basic that give a similar functionality to a ternary operator, however it has the fault of side effects where each expression will be ran and the return is decided by the testing expression. Ruby `and` operator - low presedence can be made use of in a one line if statement to both set a value and break or next a loop. e.g.

2021-06-17

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-17T14:37:20+00:00

2021-06-17 Heap Flexible PCB/Device Production using silk screen transfer techniques. Discussion of Utopia a new piece of software to allow bi-directional react programming. UI Layout Product (figma) Types Pipes In Every Shell How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastination

2021-06-18

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-18T14:54:13+00:00

2021-06-18 Heap Letter locking - BBC article on historic method of keeping secrets in mail. YC: Music rise after netbook for every child - Children were given netbooks through their school with limitations, but it allowed them the freedom of having their own computer versus the norm of having a family shared computer, or none at all.

2021-06-20

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-20T18:16:26+00:00

2021-06-20 Heap: Working on this project currently, however I'm not sure I like the style that The Odin Project has chosen for this particular subject. They also do not really relay to you how the 'assignments' should really be carried out. E.g. the clean phone numbers assignment, phone numbers had never been displayed prior. Should we be asking the user if that is there phone number? Should we create a list of bad numbers for our team to follow up with? That sort of thing.

2021-06-21

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-21T14:52:51+00:00

2021-06-21 Heap: Free developer software list Deta - Similar in function to Netlify, hosted in Germany, always free, node.js and python containers are hosted. $1 Unix Sticker - Up to a $24 sticker pack, all of these look nice and might be a good addition to my laptop. Alcatel LINKZONE 2 - free hotspot with a $50/m or $75/m plan. Normally ~$80 to purchase outright. At $50 you hit the $1/

2021-06-22

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-23T04:45:38+00:00

2021-06-22 Heap: Abacus and it's limitations - PDF on how an abacus functions and it's limitations. Web design is 95% typography - Article referenced from 'A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web' by Mark Boulton Basics of CSS Grid - YT| Video from Mozilla employee on basics of CSS Grid. Project: Safety Web Page

2021-06-23

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-24T05:51:26+00:00

2021-06-23 Heap: Include Plugin - Used to create the daily page and current day link. YC: The Grant Beam Robotics Page - Found a blast from the past website on YC involving beam robotics! The Prosperous Software Consultant - Article on the columns needed in order to be a successful software consultant. Wiki: Continuous Partial Attention

2021-06-24

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-24T22:38:04+00:00

2021-06-24 Heap: -- Definition of the word Productive: * adj.: Producing or capable of producing crops, goods, or services, especially in abundance. * adj.: Marked by abundant production or achievement: synonym: fertile. * adj.: Yielding favorable or useful results; constructive.

2021-06-25

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-25T21:18:27+00:00

2021-06-25 Ideas Project Idea: * Deep Work Score Board - A calendar heatmap graph (ala github contributions) that lets you have a quick overview of your daily streaks of meeting some goal; in this case hours of deep work. Product Idea: * Brain Food: Meal product for students and knowledge workers that is as easy as cup noodle but nutrient dense and much more reserved in salt content.

2021-06-26

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-26T20:00:51+00:00

2021-06-26 Heap: Today is too hot, and it is only the beginning of a heat wave. We are looking at getting up to 106 today, 113 tomorrow, and 114 Monday. Luckily we just got our second AC installed in the main room to hopefully keep the temperature inside the house a comfortable 78-80*.

2021-06-28

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-28T22:30:12+00:00

2021-06-28 Heap: ---------- PDF: Rockewell Powerpoint On HMI Design References: * ISA 101, Human-Machine Interfaces * ASM Consortium Guidelines – ISBN 978-1440431647Effective Console Operator HMI Design * “High Performance HMI Handbook,” Hollifield et al * “Information Dashboard Design,” Stephen Few

2021-06-29

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-29T22:18:24+00:00

2021-06-29 Ideas QR Codes should be a first class citizen baked into Android itself. e.g. camera app integration and on screen scan built into pull down menu. QR Code generator for easy production of text, emoji, or noun project icons with verifiable readability. Potentially a web app that makes it easy to print them out into different sticker formats.

2021-07-01

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-02T05:52:05+00:00

2021-07-01 Heap: Came across this inconsistency in my attempt to refactor my_each_with_index def my_each_with_index index = 0 # self.my_each {|item| yield item, index and index += 1} # ^^^ look into why this doesn't work # self.my_each do |item| yield item, index index += 1 end end

2021-07-02

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-02T17:18:42+00:00

2021-07-02 Heap: Class-level Cohesion “In practice, you will come across at least six common ways to group methods.” * Functional * Informational * Utility * Logical * Sequential * Temporal DAO Data Access Objects abstract the access to a data source. Allowing a programmer to not be worried about specific implementation aspects. It could even allow for a change of data storage without modifying much in the way of implementation.

2021-07-11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-11T16:17:16+00:00

2021-07-11 Heap: Create offline tile files for mapboxs Website for the Kate editor

2021-07-14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-14T14:40:05+00:00

2021-07-14 Heap: Off The Grid Communicator - A Nokia E63 main board replacement to allow for secure LORA communication.

2021-07-15

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-15T15:07:43+00:00

2021-07-15 Heap: 25 y/o lives for 555 days without heart Windows 365 - Windows as a service, AKA cloud computer era. SEGA being sued over key game - Apparently what appeared as a skill game was in fact programmed to not pay out until a certain amount of losses. I guess this means it is no better than a slot machine. I wonder if this is a potential big hit to most industry arcade games.

2021-07-19

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-19T16:26:02+00:00

2021-07-19 Heap: Robot Teardown Guides - guides to stop planned obsolescence at industrial robot level. MiR100 - Robot featured in a teardown of the previous website

2021-07-20

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-20T17:41:05+00:00

2021-07-20 Heap: PDF: UML Distilled - Recommended reading on UML from The Pragmatic Programmer

2021-09-07

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-07T20:24:21+00:00

2021-09-07 Heap: Rumble, offline store and forward microblog Rumble github BLE Beacon Wiki Bluetooth Low Energy Wiki Could it be possible to use a combination of application and BLE to introduce super low powered scuttlebutt protocol based applications? You would only initiate a heavy connection when devices are within proximity to each other. This allows for lower powered state the majority of the time, waiting for a specific BLE beacon to spool up background processes and initiate connec…

2021-09-08

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-08T18:26:15+00:00

2021-09-08 Heap: News article: OSU doctorate study on kombucha Scientific Journal Article: Microbial Composition of SCOBY Starter Cultures Used by Commercial Kombucha Brewers in North America Homeless Guerilla Grazing - Interesting cart design to be pulled by sheep. Nata de coco industrial production - lab xylenium is used in their production. How to make Nata de coco starter - uses squeezed pineapple pressings, water, and sugar in a 6:3:1 ratio for 7 day incubation.

2021-09-09

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-09T15:13:50+00:00

2021-09-09 Heap: Flax fiber production diagram Flax seeds = Linseed Linseed oil => Linoleum Linseed oil => Oilcloth

2021-09-10

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-10T20:21:24+00:00

2021-09-10 Heap: Looked back in to the project for tags within dokuwiki. I played around with font widths and adjusting things to try and match. The problem is that you have to transmit the characters across the line in order to get the on screen width that is required to create adjusted character spacing for the spaces and non breaking spaces.

2021-09-13

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-14T05:53:02+00:00

2021-09-13 Heap: Vebabox - portable reefer transport solution

2021-09-14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-14T16:55:36+00:00

2021-09-14 Heap:

2021-09-15

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-16T14:16:45+00:00

2021-09-15 Heap: Kaylin and Hobbes Pickles - West coast (Canadian) pickle company McClures Pickles - 'Successful pickle company' based on article from Pinterest?

2022-02-02

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-02T20:01:22+00:00

2022-02-02 * Added points for Mike, found backwards pump speed reference * Looked up executive function * I feel like I suck at planning and organizing. I normally float through my responsibilities as they come up. Sort of the first step of the GTD plan. If it takes 2 minutes or less, I do it immediately. The problem comes when I just don't really have a clear heading forward for

2022-02-03

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-03T22:19:13+00:00

2022-02-03 * Did some minimal research on containerizing a rails app * Research / Experiment on ram usage for rails app. Thrifty shopper ~120mb ram. Just node command ~40mb * Logged in to VPS using duckdns.org url and got caught up in an ECDSA host key issue. Turned out to be just removing the single line key did allow me to both log in using keys through IP as well as

2022-02-04

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-04T19:19:18+00:00

2022-02-04 * Back to thinking about docker containers. My container needs to do a few things. * Assume rails application data is in /opt/app * /opt/app is actually a volume set up in docker-compose * Get an environment variable for the SERVER_PORT to differentiate at the proxy level

2022-02-05

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-06T07:48:35+00:00

2022-02-05 * Just had a realization that maybe I should start hoarding the archive.org links of things to make sure I get the snapshot in time saved. That way if it's not available I can put in for it to get archived. * I need to clean my office area at home. Organize everything in my area into the racking and boxes I purchased. Remove all the things that don't belong in the racks.

2022-02-06

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-07T05:40:11+00:00

2022-02-06 What is my goal? To utilize my skills in software development to gain employment at the pay rate I am worth. Emmet: * How do you escape the child selector in a line of emmet? | `^` * How do you avoid having to escape a child selector? | `()`

2022-02-07

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-07T15:55:24+00:00

2022-02-07 Workback apparently put me through into the running for the finalist interview even though I haven't put forth a video of my projects/work. I wonder what that entails... Am I the only person who actually went through the coding portion? Have they seen my work otherwise? I don't know if I ever sent them my github, but that is easy enough to find with my name. I'll have to send them a reply and find out the details of the situation.

2022-02-08

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-08T15:39:59+00:00

2022-02-08 Heap: * The Odin Project: Form Basics * MDN: Your First Form * Smashing Magazine: UX Mobile Forms * Smashing Magazine: Extensive Guide To Form Usability * UX Matters: 7 Best Practices For Buttons * UX Matters: Pagination In Web Forms

2022-02-14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-14T15:13:45+00:00

2022-02-14 Distractions: What a harsh reality that everything is a distraction now. You can't take three steps on a computer without tripping over distractions. How can I rid myself of them? How can I identify them? What IS a distraction? Is it a matter of will? Something to be overcome? Something to train against? Mental fortitude? Is it merely grit?

2022-02-15

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-15T21:52:36+00:00

2022-02-15 Heap: * Tailwind CSS - utility-first CSS framework * How Heroku Works * * Devops toolchain * ElasticSearch * Full Text Search - Integrating PostgresQL full text search with ruby on rails

2022-02-16

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-17T18:42:38+00:00

2022-02-16 Heap: * Voice Directed Programming * Markdown Diagrams In Github - Mermaid blocks allow for text based diagram configuration * React Folder Layout * React Architecture Layout * React Folder Structure * Demystifying The Folder Structure Of A React App * React Router

2022-03-03

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-03T21:32:43+00:00

2022-03-03 Heap: * (Hacker News) The new White House memo on zero trust is a strong signal... * (Article) The new White House memo on zero trust is a strong signal * Government Memo On Zero Trust (PDF)

2022-03-09

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-09T22:59:06+00:00

2022-03-09 Heap: * Github Oauth API * Handling authentication in express js * Building/structuring a Nodejs MVC Application * EJS - Embedded Javascript Templating. It's similar to JSX in the react realm but not * SWAG Container Documentation

2022-03-14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-14T19:02:30+00:00

2022-03-14 Heap: * Design Figma User on Virtual Coffee wanted to convert a jekyll template to this styling * Jekyll + USWDS * USWDS - United State Web Design System * Frontend Engineering Practices Guide - 18F * React Framework Links -- Resources for React developers * US Digital Corps - Work for 2 years on governmental websites

2022-04-01

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-01T20:38:09+00:00

2022-04-01 Things I Need To Study On * UI / UX * Design Theory * CSS * Responsive Design Principles Full Stack Web Developer * Front-end Technology * HTML * CSS * Javascript * jQuery * LESS * Angular * React * Development Languages

2022-04-04

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-05-05T15:10:52+00:00

2022-04-04 Heap: * How to run a city-wide wireless network from a drawer * Unveiling the Indigenous Knowledge Behind the Mud Houses of Nagercoil

2022-04-12

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-12T18:19:18+00:00

2022-04-12 Heap: * RJS Article * SJR Article

2022-07-19

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-07-19T15:11:01+00:00

2022-07-19 Heap: Updating Dokuwiki required me to change the settings of the data folder. The only way I could manage was to make sure that there was a group policy to allow writes and THEN change the group recursively. Changing the group first locked out

2022-08-19

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-19T14:49:13+00:00

2022-08-19 Heap: Sewing Original comments section for article on sewing outdoor gear Sewing patterns for outdoor gear Large Format Laser Cutter for sewing Twitter Post on said laser cutter

2024-08-18

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-08-18T22:05:12+00:00

2024-08-18 Thoughts It's been two years since I've last made a daily update to this wiki... That's far too long. I should be making use of it daily already. Also maybe with some additional information on the pages? Something I could go back and fill out at another time.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-18T14:34:09+00:00

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