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I wish the stores were still around. As a kid, I loved going through the bins of electronic components, trying to figure out how they'd all work together in a circuit. As an adult who just got his Ham Radio Technician license, I'd love to be able to drop by and grab a few parts instead of ordering online. Ham Radio Outlet is great, but they are few and far between.

Thank you for this -- I needed a laugh today. I do have to say that we visited Zion in Nov and it was amazing -- beautiful weather and no crowds. I think it's all about timing.

This is hilarious. Well done!

Somewhat similar situation here, but I use a .diff file:

! heading here

+ item to do here

- item completed here

the !+- prefixes auto-highlight/colorize in editors. I use Sublime Text.

Looks great! Cool idea and a very clean interface. One note on the website: the "Calendar / Todo / Project" nav buttons throw 404 errors when clicked.

This looks really great. I love the presentation style. Clean and simple. Nice work!

Very cool! One note: the random sample marked: 'Using a string "true" instead of a boolean true' leaves "true" as a string after parsing, instead of converting to an actual boolean.

Thanks for clarifying. I understand this is a bit different, but if folks are using vim, the best resource (in my opinion) for novices is vimtutor. Just type "vimtutor" in the console. It uses an interactive tutorial to explain the basics of editing, saving, moving around — plus the various modes.

What's wrong with using :q ?

* update my hosts file to block sites that suck me in (youtube, reddit and maybe even this one).

* listen to music with no vocals. For whatever reason, vocals distract me from thinking. I often use brain.fm or a "synthwave" set of songs on Spotify.

* write my ideas for architecture/code down on paper and check them off one-by-one. Then handwriting helps me.

Good luck!

Love this. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's "make your soul grow" letter to high school kids - https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/make-your-soul-grow

My ATT Phone is in SOS mode. However, ATT's outages status reports:

  > All clear! No outages to report.
  > We didn’t find any outages in your area. Still having issues?

https://www.att.com/outages/

Great article. Love the interactivity. One thing that really helped me understand CSS positioning (and centering) years ago was reading about the box model. Understanding the box model helps you determine flow within the DOM. The `display` and `position` CSS properties are also fundamental to learning about positioning. MDN has great articles on these!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...

Just wanted to say thanks for creating this. Wonderful tool!

This looks great. I spend a good amount of time each week grepping through Kubernetes log files. Looking forward to trying this out next week. I particularly like the pretty-print and merge options.

I have a Flexispot standing desk. Before I purchased, I was concerned about how sturdy the desk would be in standing mode — but it's actually sturdier than my old sitting desk. I love it. Look for sales. They have quite a few throughout the year. Their optional accessories do seem overpriced though. I attached a cheap ikea wire shelf underneath to hold all the cables instead of buying a $50 "Cable Management Mesh"

Great, but this is a private boarding school. I'm more concerned about the (over) use of Chromebooks in public schools. It's trivial for kids to tab over to Youtube or a gaming site in the middle of class. I would've done the same thing if I'd been given a laptop for 6 hours a day in school. When I see my kids trying to write math equations or use a virtual ruler/compass to do math homework, it really pains me. Let's go back to writing things by hand.

The article addresses this here:

> Early school starts are not the only cause of teenage drowsiness, but they are a crucial factor—especially because natural sleep cycles make it difficult for post-puberty teenagers to fall asleep before 11 p.m.

Really interesting write-up and some funny rants about Apple/Spotify. I'd never heard the term "PP3 battery" before. Wikipedia tells me that this is the standard rectangular 9V/0.5 Ah battery you can buy at the store (in the US, at least). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-volt_battery

Great visualization! For those in the Northeast US, Cherry Springs State Park in PA is a wonderful place to visit for night viewing (and camping). It's one of the best places (darkest night sky) on the eastern seaboard for stargazing. We camped there in the summer and saw the Milky Way like I'd never seen before. Be sure to look at the moon phases when planning -- try to plan for a new moon so you have a dark sky: https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/CherrySpringsSt...

Someone needs to run a `git blame` on that line of code!

"You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel."

Almost 40 years later, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is still one of my favorite movies.

Thank goodness it's Tuesday!

If one exists, I'd love to be part of it. Many of these comments really resonate with me (in my 40s as well). I find that I'm more effective as a developer now than I was years ago – partly because I know myself better. I understand that I love building things hands-on while collaborating with other engineers, designers or stakeholders. I understand that, in the end, people are using these products we build and that I need to keep that in mind.

I also know the things that I either do not enjoy or am not good at, like management. I'm happy to keep coding for as long as my brain will allow it.

Great tip. I hadn't heard of that museum and will have to check it out. If anyone else is interested in whaling, particularly Nantucket's past sperm whale industry, "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" is a great read.

I came here to say exactly the same thing. I'd love to find a kit or gearbox than can gear up/down a simple stepper motor for Arduino projects. The HDPE laser cut is a good idea though, I'll give that a try.

You might find the ":NERDTree" plugin useful for project/directory navigation:

https://catonmat.net/vim-plugins-nerdtree-vim and https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree

I recently picked up a copy of "Practical Vim" https://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edit... based on a recommendation from a comment on HN. The first chapter mentions the built-in `vimtutor`

I never it existed! It was incredibly helpful with some features I'd never used such as Put, Replace and Visual mode. If you have vim, you should just be able to run `vimtutor` in the command line. If you have trouble, you can run `:help vimtutor` within vim.

Is this a fact (or have other co's done this)? I'm genuinely curious. I assume they'd hire Vietnamese employees though.

I sometimes leave a process running on a port for webdev and then try to open a new one resulting in the error, "Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:NNN", e.g. 0.0.0.0:443.

There are many ways to search for the process, but here's what I use:

   lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -P | grep [PORT NUMBER]

Look for port num and kill the process with:

   kill -9 [PID OF PROCESS YOU WANT TO KILL]

Note if running as root user, you will need to prepend the above commands with sudo