CW: suicide, self-harm, mental health issues For the last 8 years, I’ve been in recovery from severe mental health issues. I’ve learned a lot, and want to pass on 10 things I’ve learned. I’ll teach them each through a short antidote. I am not a doctor, and this is not…

Tl;dr “Disrupted” offers a genuine, hilarious look at startups in the early 2010s, with relevant lessons for anyone working in a tech startup or considering joining one. Recently, I devoured the book ‘Disrupted’ by Dan Lyons. I spent two full days in a fever of reading, unable to put this little e-book down. “Disrupted” is a memoir of the author’s transition from being laid-off as a journalist with the popular magazine Newsweek, to finding work in the…

I was in middle school when 9/11 happened. I remember the atmosphere in the school was one of confusion, as the principal and faculty did the best they could to manage the chaos of hundreds of middle schoolers wondering ‘what is going on?!’ At one point, many of us crowded…

Hi friends. Quick question for you. Does your setup look like this? Mine does. Like many other humans on this green earth, I do not own a gaming PC. I wish I did! But I also don’t want to spend 3K. …

Logic gates. Conjuring images of Tron-like circuitry; tiny shards of electricity whizzing through infinitely complex systems of on/off switches, letting you use MS Office, browse the internet, and play Skyrim with Thomas the Tank engine mods, these little guys are at the base of all computers. All of the processes…

A few days ago, I picked up my first Python book, O’Reilly’s “Learning Python”, 5th edition. It was amazing, funny, and clearly written. But, when I would open my terminal to run the exercises…well, that was another story. That was not amazing, or funny. I have Python 2.7 on my…

Vocabulary and notes from the book. Just started it today. It’s awesome. mutable: object whose state can be changed after its creation. >>> a=9 >>>print(a) 9 >>> a=11 >>>print(a) 11 immutable: object whose state cannot be changed after it’s creation. Variables are just names, like a label you put on…

These are the libraries that came pre-imported with my most recent project. In order to understand what is available to me, I’m going through and writing a fast summary of what it does in a way I understand. Comments welcome if I am inaccurate. It’s a first stab at this…

These are notes as I do morning warm-up with Python on CodeWars. Python != Ruby (duh) Some major differences off the bat: Return values in Ruby are implicitly tied to the last line of code run. Return values in Python need to be explicit. …