Mostly Software

    • Always organize elements of information in categories no larger than 9, but preferably ~5 chunks.
    • These are great! https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950. Terrible volume control designs.
    • Beets have nitrates which are good for athletics. Lower heart rate, longer workouts, etc.
    • Remember, diversity is a proven benefit. It applies to decisionmaking, nutrition, genetics, workplace creativity, health, relationships, and much more. But remember, diversity’s variable is not race. It’s not gender, it’s not sex. It’s not sexuality. It’s not age, weight, or height. Diversity’s variables are deeper than that. Diversity’s variables are born from our choices as we navigate these lives, born from things we as individuals have control of. Diversity’s variables are not born from characteristics that we are born with. If you want multiple flavors of soda for a party, buy multiple flavors of soda – don’t pick sodas bottles with differently colored wrappers.
    • Julio Jones’ actual first name is Quintorris lol.
    • Organized a lot of my personal stances. I had them written in various documents over the years but I combined them all into one. Each topic (politics, religion, etc) has a few bullets of rationale.
    • USA beat Curacao to advance to semis in the gold cup.
    • KD and Kyrie Irving are going to the nets lol.
    • Changed the Robert/Arlen wedding RSVP.
    • I had been confusing beef ribs. Notes are below. Bought and smoked them for the first time today! Each rib is almost $4 and 1lb, wow.
      • “short ribs” without any other specifier refer to beef plate short ribs. They’re the biggest beef ribs.
      • Chuck short ribs are like plate short ribs (both are from the underbelly and have more meat, like pork spare ribs), but a little smaller.
      • Beef back ribs are the third type. Like baby back ribs for pork. They’re the smaller beef rib, but they’re still bigger than pork ribs.
      • Just like pork ribs, beef ribs are right next to other expensive cuts (ribeye), so you might see shiners (bones sticking out) from where the butcher tried to cut as close as possible.
      • You cook beef ribs with the membrane ON, unlike pork ribs. This helps keep them together.
      • You don’t wrap beef ribs. Because of this, clean smoke is important. Cook a little hotter 275 and go a little lighter on the wood.
      • Bark is everything for beef ribs. Don’t spritz until the last couple hours.
      • Total time about 8 hours.
    • Paid rent.
    • Refilled on charcoal (70lbs).
    • Tried the new breakfast burrito from Mickey’s. Was good! Bfast burritos are easy, but one thing I liked about theirs is that they crisped the potatoes, almost like tots, so that it added some crunch to the burrito.
    • I had been keeping the intake on the blower mostly closed, but it’s easier on the motor to open the inlet when in use.
    • Matchlight charcoal has lighter fluid soaked in, don’t use it.
    • Moist snuff is just more finely cut.
    • Engines.
      • V vs Inline. Doesn’t change performance a ton, if it’s the same combustion volume, but it does give more torque on the lower end. In a V, they share the same crankshaft, so you can push on both sides.. V geometries are usually more compact, because inline cylinders can get long. However, V patterns cause more vibration, if not balanced or dampened.
      • 2 vs 4. For the same displacement volume, the 2 will have a better low end and the 4 will have a better upper end (and wider overall powerband). 4 has higher top speed and higher redline, as well as harder maintenance. The 4 will also be smoother, with less vibration.
    • Design.
      • Don’t use grey on colored background. Whiten it up.
      • Offset shadows for text.
      • Use background colors for separation, rather than borders/whitespace.
    • Lerna and Bit are great tools for monorepos with javascript (projects with multiple npm packages).
    • Came across an awesome concept during my mindfulness practice today. “Beginner’s Mind“. The goal is to become better at everything you do, of course, but that’s not the carrot in front of you as you progress. Have the perspective of a beginner, of a child. Ask questions. Be amazed. Be curious. Be humble.
    • Hung the donut poster.
    • Full cycle at netflix. Individual(s) own the full design-dev-test-deploy-operate-support. https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/full-cycle-developers-at-netflix-a08c31f83249. I agree with this model.
    • For democrats, Amazon is the most trusted institution. For republicans, it’s the military. https://bakercenter.georgetown.edu/aicpoll/.
    • Market cap is just share price * number of shares. It’s the total value of a company.
      • In 2019: MS #1, Apple #2, Amazon #3, Alphabet (Google) #4.
    • Berkshire Hathaway is an american company. I always assumed it was British. They own GEICO, fruit of the loom, and a bunch of other big companies.
    • Good reminder of web form hygiene. https://uxdesign.cc/design-better-forms-96fadca0f49c. Most important: show all options side by side instead of a dropdown, if there are 5 or fewer.
    • I changed my mind. I enjoyed the new Aladdin.
    • USA beat France to advance to the semis.
    • Using nonstick spray on an already nonstick cooking surface (like teflon) reduces its efficiency. It covers the nonstick coat. It doesn’t damage it, per say, but it creates a bunch of unnecessary buildup.
      • Nonstick spray on cast iron is fine. Those pans should be seasoned anyway.
    • Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) does the voice of Chucky in the most recent Child’s Play.
    • White holes are the opposite of black holes; nothing can enter, even light. They are just a mathematical construct. Nothing physical can create them.
    • pysnooper is a library that gives you a decorator which helps with debugging, like printing the various in the local scope and such. I still like pdb and breakpoint().
    • You can do some pretty cool customization with jupyter: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-effortlessly-optimize-jupyter-notebooks-e864162a06ee. Notebooks are a useful tool for sharing/collab. I don’t use them for my own dev.
    • An IPv4 address is 32 bits, and therefore there are 4.3 billion of them (2^32, also there are 4 octets and each is a number 0-255, or 2^8). There are hundreds of millions reserved (already in use) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses. Eventually, they’ll be exhausted. They can be reclaimed for other purposes, resold on markets, etc, but they are finite. IPv4 is 128 bits, with muuuuuuuch more room.
      • But, remember this takes you to a machine. It’s an address. You could have multiple domains and multiple sites being served from the same IP address, like my nginx reverse proxy is doing.
    • The conjuring series, the annabelle series, and the nun all take place in the same universe.
    • Both the conjuring and child’s play series are ok. Nothing amazing, but still enjoyable.
    • TS and TC are telesync and telecine, bootleg movie formats that are between CAM and DVD.
    • Read Aaron Franklin’s BBQ book!
      • I like meathead’s a bit more overall, because it goes into the scientific rationale for all bbq decisions and variables.
      • Learned mostly about building your own smoker. Using pure wood fire in an offset, adding baffles to mix the airflow and create more homogeneous temperature, and smokestack height for how hard it pulls.
      • The process is very manual at Franklin. All offsets, oak wood, thermometers, and natural airflow (controlled by doors). Nothing closed-loop. This process could be made simple, more repeatable/dependable, and easier to manage (much less work!) with some simple automation. Just because you’re programming something doesn’t mean it’s doing it differently, it’s just more efficient.
      • Start the fire with a piece of juice-soaked butcher paper from yesterday’s brisket wrapping 🙂
      • Wagyu means “Japanese Cow” in Japanese.
      • Try to buy never-frozen. If you see more blood in the package, it was likely frozen.
    • Homemade BBQ sauce with espresso beans – a delicious idea I first saw at Franklin’s.
    • Bought a large serrated slicer for brisket, and a boning knife for easier trimming.
    • Watch the new live-action Aladdin. Meh. Loved the idea, did not love the adaptation.
    • The steam room at 24 closes a couple hours nightly for cleaning, usually around 1-2am.
    • Finished the donut puzzle.
    • Neck is feeling a little better, as if it were a muscle strain and were fading. I’m never cracking my neck or back or fingers again! The stiffness is kinda annoying while I go cold turkey, but I’m sure it will fade.
    • PassportJS is a good lib for user auth.
    • M&A = mergers and acquisitions.
    • Glass breaks at like mach 4.
    • Max heart rate is about 220 minus your age.
      • Pumpkin spice = cinnamon nutmeg ginger clove.
      • Fb’s crypto is Libra. The programming language behind it is called Move. It is written in Rust.
      • Popular JS libs: https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade. Lodash (underscore) tops the list, obv. Utility functions.  Rambda is #2, a functional library.
      • shift-escape in chrome opens up the browser’s own task manager. How am I just now finding this. You can view processes, memory, cpu, and terminate them. It even shows resource usage by tab and by extension, which is an extremely useful thing for determining how your browser is slowing your computer.
      • All round-of-16 games in the women’s world cup are now over. Our path to the championship will likely be france-england-germany, which is no easy sequence.
      • Smoked chicken and made tacos again. This time, made the corn tortillas by hand for the first time! They’re way better.
      • Cloudfare is the company that offers the standard ddos protection you see (an annoying 1s delay).
      • I’m never cracking my neck again! Twisted a little too far and might have tweaked the muscle a little bit. Wasn’t really painful, but it’s just a scary area to mess with. Beyond muscle issues, you can tear the arteries and cause a blot clot that goes up into your brain, causing a stroke. Nottttt worth it.
      • A little React work. Remember, it’s just the “V” in MVC, it’s not a full framework.
        • The tipping system in the US is broken. Patrons paying employees instead of the employers. Incentivization is good, but it should be inherent to the accountability of the position, like, you know, every other job on the planet.
        • Idea: a restaurant that doesn’t allow tips.
        • Decided to subscribe to Medium. I get about 5 articles in my digest that look interesting but I can’t read. Since this is something I do daily, and enjoy, I’m going to try the premium content. It’s $50/yr.
        • USA Spain. Won 2-1. On to quarterfinal against France (which is basically the final).
          • Over large numbers, only about 3% of corner kicks result in goals.
          • A set piece is one that returns the ball to free play, like a corner or a free kick.
        • Medium.
          • In JS (just like python), you can access properties with dot notation (obj.prop) or bracket notation (obj[‘prop’]). The latter should be used when the property name might have invalid syntax (leading digit instead of letter, etc).
          • Angular is a much larger framework that uses the regular dom and integrates components in. It has two way binding. React is a smaller library that uses a virtual dom. It only has one way binding.
          • Read the top articles on misophonia. None helpful. They all explain and characterize the condition. None provide solutions, because there are none. You just have to cope. Exposure makes it worse. There’s no medication. You just have to avoid the triggers with earplugs, leaving the room, etc.
        • Updated my search engines in google chrome (i, a, t, w, y).
        • My “a” key is still a little bit sticky since I busted the retaining clips.
        • Priapism: an erection that won’t go away.
        • Idea: a machine learning app that follows all of your activity (google searches, songs listened to, words said, apps opened, etc) and allows you to observe various outputs (energy, happiness, stress, whatever), then performs analysis to map the inputs to outputs and suggest patterns.
        • The flavor in root beer comes from sarsaparilla bark and sassafras bark.
        • Made the rub for the chicken tomorrow. Used a TON of anchos and guajillos, and included the seed pods this time. I’m excited for some strong flavor. Also used more garlic and onion powder, since Allie is in Sweden for 2 weeks.
          • Just like ancho is the name for the dried poblano, guajillo is the name for the dried mirasol.
        • Matt Stonie has done challenges of 20,000cal in 1hr. Holyyyyyyy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOop2bLiSFw.
        • Booked all my one-way hawaii flights. LAX-HNL-LIH-LAX. United, Hawaiian, and American. Basically had to reset passwords on all argghghhh. Total cost ~$550. Next step is getting a kauai hotel room with wes/jcriss, then I should be good on accommodations.