• Aug 3, 2019

  • Typescript is awesome (as are the typing features of py3). I continue to save time as I convert.
  • Closures are just the nomenclature for something most programmers already do. You have an outer function that defines some variables, defines an inner function that uses the variables, then returns the inner function for use. In this way, the actual function keeps a set of variables in scope however you choose. This can be for privacy, persistence, whatever. Example:
  • outer = function() {
  • var a = 1;
  • var inner = function () {
  • console.log(a);
  • }
  • return inner;
  • }
  • Coffee beans outgas too, just like I noticed on my sesame seed bags. That’s why they put those one-way valves in the coffee bags.
  • I’m wary of bookmarking financial sites. If anybody gets the google creds, they can get a lot. However, if they get those creds, they can get a lot anyway (email, amazon, phone, etc).
  • UFC on the east coast, which is awesome because the prelims start in the MORNING here.
  • The current administration is taking some misinformed stances on encryption; that it’s scary, crime-enabling, etc. The privacy and security of 99% of the world’s communication is more valuable than the exposure of 1% of criminal texting. Here is a similar argument to show its fallacy: we should ban doors on homes because they enable criminals to elude law enforcement.
  • LA’s population is over 10 million.
  • Articles like this are so sadly off-target: https://medium.com/s/for-the-record/i-do-not-know-how-to-trust-thin-people-fbe78e633a50. Spreading this false lens is not good. You could rewrite the entire article in a light that doesn’t tarnish body positivity, switching a single word, and perhaps it would be more clear to those that believe the post:
  • “I get drunk every day. I do not trust people who drink alcohol once a week, once a month, never, or any frequency less than mine. I indulge in it because it feels good, temporarily. I drink the next day again to persist the endorphin rush. Others do it less, and I acknowledge that. But I can’t respect it. I know this disposition might be bad for my health, but the short-term satisfaction is important to me. There are other explanations, of course. I’m predisposed to like the rush. I’m dealing with stress, and the seratonin helps me cope. My mind has a propensity for the addictive nature. I was born with a body that enjoys the stimulation more than most. But that’s ok. I’m happy with myself. I know that this pattern affects me physically. It affects others, as my behavior changes. I wear the consequences of my routines visibly on my body: the bags under my eyes, the smell, the hands clutched to my headache. Others can notice my habit, and they judge, but I can’t trust them. They’re biased. They don’t do it as often. They indulge less, so they can’t understand. They’re not concerned for me, they’re just condescending. They suddenly turn into public health authorities, thinking they know anything about my situation. Friends judge. Strangers stare. Even doctors. But the science is not clear. And they obviously don’t care about me, they just see my body as a walking manifestation of this so-called self destructive habit. I can’t trust people who refuse to get drunk every day.”
  • There are no tigers in africa?
  • Worked a lot on the MERN stack again, building my portfolio site.
  • Read a little bit of the react-router and react-router-dom docs. I’m no expert yet, but the full picture is slowly becoming more clear.
  • Removed title and author from the blog post components. Don’t need em.
  • Just some easy reminders, coming from more familiarity with pip syntax. npm init to enter a wizard that adds a package.json to your cwd. npm i to install. Add -S to save it as a dep, which means adding it to package.json. Add -D to save it as a development dependency. When you npm i in a fresh clone with the package.json, it will create a node_modules folder and install all your deps locally into it.
  • When you install core, it prints “Also, the author of core-js ( https://github.com/zloirock ) is looking for a good job -)” – yikes. Ads in packages. At the CLI. Nice UX…
  • Got the client and server apps both working again, cleaned the repo, committed.
  • Here is my diet, every single day:
  • Breakfast shake: assorted powders (~$1), homemade oat milk ($1)
  • Lunch smoothie: kale ($1.79), tomatoes ($0.79), banana ($0.30), turmeric ($0.20), ginger ($0.10), beet stalks (counted for beets instead)
  • Preworkout juice: carrots ($0.75), red cabbage ($0.75), celery ($0.40), beets ($0.75)
  • Dinner: almonds ($0.40), smoked meat ($2.00)
  • Sometimes I’ll have a protein bar at the gym, which is $1.
  • The veggies are organic, so the prices are a little bit higher than they would be otherwise.
  • Powders: cinnamon, whey protein, creatine, cacao nibs, glutamine, lion’s mane, maca, flax.
  • Other than that, it’s just coffee and water all day.
  • Some of these are variable. Chicken vs beef, almonds vs seeds, etc, but the averages are close. Sometimes I’ll do sweet potatoes for breakfast, yogurt, bell pepper snack, etc. It washes.
  • This obviously is just recurring consumable costs, not single purchase items like blender or infrastructural recurrence like charcoal, spices, etc.
  • Rounding up, that’s $12/day to eat extremely healthily.
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