• Jun 21, 2019

  • Went to ear appointment with Allie. Was very interesting.
  • Did surgery on a couple keys on my laptop. The S key was sticking, so I removed and cleaned underneath it. I also checked the A key next to it, to make sure I had put S back correctly, but it didn’t come off as well. The retaining clip system is ridiculous, there are like 3 layers with 4 corner attach points each. It’s back in place and working ok, but definitely not perfect. You have to press the A extra hard to register (which is annoying since it’s a pinky key).
  • HN
  • Facebook unveiled Libra, their cryptocurrency.
  • Slack (the chat app) IPOed yesterday, opening at 38.50, closing at 38.62, and peaking at 42.
  • Remember, webpack helps bundle all your js deps (like those specified in <script> tags to other files/urls, or require and import inside a js script) into one. It even builds a nice depgraph for you.
  • https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-modern-applications-with-webpack-c81ccf6dd54f/.
  • https://hackernoon.com/lets-build-a-boilerplate-with-react-and-webpack-eb2fbdb44283.
• Jun 21, 2019

  • Pineapple has the enzyme bromelain which breaks down protein chains. If you marinate meat with any pineapple in it for too long (hours), it will tenderize it into mush.
  • Updated al pastor:
  • Trim pork butt into slices. Brine as usual.
  • Mix marinade separately and apply right before smoking. Don’t want pineapple bromelain.
  • Put slices on grill like chicken thighs, not skewered. More surface area for bark/smoke.
  • Get the internal to 170-200 and you’re fine. Chop up. Don’t need to reverse sear.
  • NBA contracts are insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap. It’s just as ridiculous as tax law, where there was a decent set of 10 original rules and then 3,000 people came in and exploited loopholes which resulted in new provisions. The worst way to scale.
  • Some questions for the interviewer. https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-interview-your-interviewers-when-youre-looking-for-a-job-d848bc3a910.
  • Describe your CI/CD/CodeReview process.
  • How free are individual contributors to pursue new ideas? Even across departments?
  • I turn 1 billion seconds old in two months! The night of Wednesday, August 22, at midnight.
  • Domains are case insensitive, but you can totally make an endpoint case-sensitive. It just gets sent to the server. You shouldn’t. Users should always consider it to be case sensitive, to be safe, but it shouldn’t be.
  • Watched the smarter every day videos on tattoos and removal.
  • The guns are rotary (just a motor and a needle(s), like a crankshaft and piston) or coil (magnetically pulling a needle, then letting go while a sprint pulls it back).
  • Laser removal just sends a very tuned flash at the tattoo. This heats up one side of the microscopic ink particles quickly enough that the other side can’t deform, so it cracks. Once broken up, white blood cells can engulf the smaller ink particles and bring them to the liver for waste processing (this is the same reason tattoos fade over a long time, the white blood cells are eating away at them).
  • Smoked the tacos al pastor.
  • At first I thought the temp probe was bad because it just kept flashing “lid off” but it settled after a while. The forums say that sometimes you can get bad readings at low temps. Also, power cycling the unit seems to help.
  • I’ll have to screw the fan back on later as well.
  • Dicing the onion the right way is awesome.
  • USWNT beat Sweden to get 1st in their group. We play Spain in the round of 16, and then likely France in the round of 8. It could very likely be a USA-Germany final.
  • NBA draft.
  • The heaviest person of all time was 1400lbs.
  • If you just change the “r” in the reddit url to “c” then you can see posts that dumb mods have removed.