Chase Woodford

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the story of a lunar colony’s revolt against rule from Earth, is a classic sci-fi novel by Robert A. Heinlein. Published in 1966, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and is considered one of the most important science fiction novels ever written.

AJ Originals

Superintelligence

The intelligence explosion is coming, and Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence argues we must actively steer the course of what many consider the most important issue facing the human race.

Linking to Highlighted Lines of Code on GitHub

One of the features I use most often on GitHub is linking to highlighted lines of code in my repository.

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple co-founder and creative genius Steve Jobs is an absolutely brilliant read. Isaacson does an amazing job of revealing the motivations and passions that drove Steve Jobs to revolutionize a number of industries, including personal computers, animated movies, digital music and phones.

Matangi

There are recording artists. And then there are recording artists. I consider M.I.A. one of the latter. I’ve been a fan of her since her 2007 release Kala, but haven’t really gotten back into her music until taking some time to listen through her 2013 release Matangi.

Logical WordPress Previous/Next Post Links

Inserting Previous/Next post links into your single.php page in WordPress is pretty straight forward. But there will come a time when you’ll want to add some logic to which post is linked to and when exactly these links are displayed, and that becomes more difficult.

Pattern Matching Using Globbing

Globbing, or pattern matching based on wildcard characters, is a feature found in many programming languages.

Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products

Everyone knows who Steve Jobs was, but fewer people know who Jony Ive is and how significant of a role he has played in the design of Apple’s technology. The title of Leander Kahney’s Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products says it all.

A Super Simple Sass @for Directive

The Sass @for directive is a pretty powerful feature. It’s really handy for iterating over a set of items. The directive has a pretty simple format: @for $var from <start> through/to <end>, where the from/through variation includes all values, including the last item, and the from/to variation doesn’t. It’s been around since the 2.2 release, however, I just recently got my first chance to work with it.