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Combined my blog with my portfolio, and got them all hosted on my own business. Drop on by!

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Installing Golang on OSX with Brew and oh-my-zsh

brew install go worked well, as expected. However, at the end of the installation, the notes suggest I add GOROOT to my path:

You may wish to add the GOROOT-based install location to your PATH: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/opt/go/libexec/bin

Buuuuut, it didn't work. After trying out some different iterations, I was reminded when ls-ing through the surrounding directories that /usr/local/opt/go/... was aliased because Homebrew. This Stack Overflow answer reinforced my hunch. So, I updated my .zshrc:

export GOPATH="/Users/IceKing/Code/go" export GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.7.1/libexec" export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$HOME/.npm-packages/bin:$GOROOT"

and it worked.

Background: homebrew, the missing package manager for osx | oh my zsh shell | golang

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Learning about the random function in Processing is evoking the same feeling I had when I first learned about HTML's <blink> tag.

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In 1996 Keith Shafer and several others proposed a solution to the problem of broken URLs. The link to this solution is now broken. Roy Fielding posted an implementation suggestion in July of 1995. The link is now broken.

src

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...making positive outcomes the easiest and default approach creates positive feedback loops

src via this tweet

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Sunday Funday.

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http://frontside.io/blog/2016/07/07/the-conjoined-triangles-of-senior-level-development.html

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PowerPoint is just simulated acetate overhead slides, and to me, that is a kind of a moral crime.

Alan Kay, src

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"Recursion is the GOTO of functional programming." -- Erik Meijer

def fact(n): return reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, range(1, n + 1)) print(fact(5)) #=> 120

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This book is dedicated, in respect and admiration, to the spirit that lives in the computer. >I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more. Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922-February 7, 1990)

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html

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Massimo Banzi’s 13 Rules for Open Source Projects

Adapted from a talk by Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, presented at World Maker Faire 2011 in New York.

1. Don’t make something you don’t use yourself.

2. Know who you are making it for.

3. Know what you want out of it.

4. Make projects, not platforms.

5. Respect the intelligence of the beginner.

6. Experts are not the best advisors when you want to make tools for beginners.

7. If nobody complains you’re doing something wrong.

8. Including people is hard (but necessary)

9. Good hardware, good software, good explanations, and generous users make a great project

10. If you’re not prepared to have someone adapt, improve, clone, or trash your work, don’t share it.

11. Open source software doesn’t necessarily translate into a business model… open source hardware must.

12. Expect resistance… and conspiracy theories.

13. Don’t let the fact that you don’t know what you’re doing stop you.

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When my teammates try to push to the same branch at the same time

/* by chrisbodhi */

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Use this one trick to get the version of a locally-installed Node module

npm view MODULE | grep version:

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Confusion / Anxiety / Resistance / Frustration / False Starts / Change / Vision / Skills / Incentives / Resources / Action Plan (via A Framework for Thinking About Systems Change · Intense Minimalism)