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.
Continue reading »
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.
Continue reading »
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.
Continue reading »
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.
Continue reading »
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.
Continue reading »
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.
Continue reading »
Pattern Matching Using Globbing
Globbing, or pattern matching based on wildcard characters, is a feature found in many programming languages.
Continue reading »
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.
Continue reading »
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.
Continue reading »