Product Review: Blair's Death Rain Habanero Potato Chips
These are the best potato chips in the world.
Your Tools Shape You, Too
(Category of post: obvious thoughts rephrased by yet another college student.)
Nice Tab Navigation in Vim
Making tabs in Vim is annoying. So I wrote a function to make it less annoying.
Poem 1
Incomplete haiku
A trip, a stumble, a Fall
Story of our life
How to Travel Alone
If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet."
Friend Is A Very Small Word
Friend is a very small word,
A little sound we make,
For one who is true, one who will do,
Great deeds for friendship’s sake.
Useful Restaurant Ranking Scale
I didn’t come up with this, but I wish I did. All credit to Noah Hayes for this. Unless he took it from someone else. Then all credit to that person.
Stacks As Linked Lists
I give you these pretty pictures to show how a stack is just a linked list, tilted 90 degrees.
Metacademy: What Happened?
One of the most interesting ideas I came across in the past few months was Metacademy. Its knowledge graph idea was less interesting to me than the idea that you could break knowledge up into prerequisites such that you could study without ever getting stuck.
Book Review: Think Better by Tim Hurson
I didn’t get all that far into this book because it’s a mix of pop psych and shitty research.
Making rm slightly safer
Lots of people alias rm
to rm -i
for the sake of safety. Another
thing that helps is not typing rm -rf ./files
and instead typing
rm -rf files
. The ./
prefix is easily mistyped, and can lead to any
of the following scenarios:
Crippling Your Technology, Part 1
Sometimes it feels like I blog only when I can’t sleep. Maybe that’s why these posts lack content.
Quotient spaces, visually understood
Quotient spaces until recently gave me a great deal of trouble. I had no intuition for them, and no image to latch on to.
More Diverse Music Thanks To Computers
I was just going through my to-do list about 10 minutes ago and one item on it was “listen to more diverse music”. Well, I’m lazy and that’s never going to happen on its own. So I wrote a short shell script to make it easier.
Custom infix operators
I started thinking of this after mucking around with Python’s os
module a lot more recently.
My First Vim Plugin
I wrote a Vim plugin to replace Notational Velocity.