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  1. Music This Week 10-25

    Music This Week

    Trying something new, here are a couple of things I’ve been playing on repeat.

    Brian Dunne, Clams Casino

    Safely inside my Dad Rock, Springsteen-inspired category, I think I found this via Xgau’s Substack. The whole album is amazing and the previous one is great too …

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  2. Autocomplete in Python Shell on Windows

    Autocomplete in Python Shell on Windows

    Because I drive myself insane replicating this when I find I want autocomplete on Windows, here are the steps (as of January 2017 anyway):

    • pip install pyreadline
    • pip install ipython[shell]

    Except right now step 2 fails when installing scandir so I grabbed it …

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  3. Dear Josie: On Weasel Words

    Dear Josie: On Weasel Words

    Dear Josie,

    On the very off-chance I don’t get a chance to barrage you about this a thousand times, here’s a lesson on weasel words. Take a look at

    Mailer front

    Always be suspicious when politicians or advertisers (if there’s still a difference) don …

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  4. Heat Oracle: Heat Oracle

    Heat Oracle: Heat Oracle

    2016-10-21

    Internet of Things project for homeowners with heating oil

    Internet of Things project providing homeowners with better efficiency for oil heating

    • Implemented a mobile-friendly responsive website design
    • Integrated Stripe for payment processing
    • Site is based on a REST API talking to vue.js components
    • Twilio …
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  5. Upgrading Django

    Upgrading Django

    For the second time in a few years I’ve found myself doing a number of Django upgrades. It’s a good thing: I’m happy the framework I chose to base most of my work on when I went solo has stayed relevant. But this time I …

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  6. Debugging a Vue.js Error

    Debugging a Vue.js Error

    I know it’s been a while and I really should write more often, but this is just a quick one for Google to index in case it happens to someone else: I recently wrote my first vue.js component and was really pleased with …

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  7. Harvard Business School: HBX: Harvard Business School

    Harvard Business School: HBX: Harvard Business School

    2016-03-01

    Building a MOOC for the Best and Brightest

    I spent two-and-a-half years working as both a front- and back-end developer on various parts of the upcoming MOOC offering from Harvard Business School. On the front-end I’m building various teaching resources in …

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  8. Worst Pickup Line: A Play in One Act

    Worst Pickup Line: A Play in One Act

    INT - BEER STORE - DAY

    CREEPY GUY, a man in his late 50s in hiking shorts and an ankle brace is paying for a popsicle at a beer store at 10:30 in the morning with the change from what is either a …

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  9. Exception Handling

    Exception Handling

    I’ve been thinking about exception handling a lot recently. A., because I’m stultifying and B., because it’s been a source of contention in the codebase I’m responsible for. I wrote some formal documentation last week to try to normalize our approach, but I’m …

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