When Jake realized that he had been staring at his screen as if it were one of those autostereogram images (where a 3D scene is encoded in a series of dot patterns) for the past 20 minutes he jolted upright. Even his physical demeanor was communicating that he had the »
He looked at his cursor in vim, his code editor of choice, as if it was going to write the code for him. Jake was an average guy, inspired developer, lover of coffee and JavaScript. Pragmatism seemed to be part of his DNA. Today he felt like he was throwing »
There have been a series of break-ins and thefts in our neighborhood recently. There is no set of signs or events that seem to point to the source of the increase. My wife said it best while she was talking to a friend. The conversation went something like... > Wife: Our »
I have a confession to make. Ever since I was really young I never really enjoyed reading. Early on I tried to read Homer's Iliad, Beowulf, many of Shakespear's works and the like. My parents were just like that, classic education and all that. I didn't understand them; allegory and »
Ok so that title might be an exaggeration but the more I use the Nintendo Switch [http://amzn.to/2pDtWY7] the more I realize that this device is capable of many many configurations. It seems like an incredible API for hardware. This is of course intentional. Just looking at the »
Start by trying some of these things out! Amazon STEM kits [https://www.amazon.com/STEM-Club-Toy-Subscription-year/dp/B01M7UDAVI] MEL Chemistry [https://melscience.com/en/] Creation Crate [https://mycreationcrate.com/refer/Nicho-AJBNSNEH] Think with Art [http://rwrd.io/43z2thi] »
A while ago I came across a great post [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PlexIsTheMediaCenterSoftwareEcosystemIveBeenWaitingFor.aspx] on getting plex [https://www.plex.tv/] media server set up on a Synology NAS (Network Attached Storage). Since then installing and running Plex on a Synolgy NAS [https://www.synology.com/en-us/] has »
In a previous post [https://archcoder.com/rachio-nest/] I was writing on how integrations can make incredible things happen when the devices we use are open and use great integration points. The post described how I use Nest [https://nest.com/] and Rachio [http://rachio.com/] to help protect my »
The National fire protection association estimates the average number of house fires in the U.S. from 1977-2013 to be roughly 1/2 million [http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/fires-by-property-type/residential/home-fires] ! While the numbers are dropping they are still pretty high. courtesy of NFPA [http://www.nfpa.org/ »
I recently made a purchase [https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/devices/surface-book]. It was one I did not take lightly, that was intended to set me free from many devices and is by far one of the best developer/creative machines that I have ever used - more on »
We covered a lot in this segment: Violence, what it takes to make a great game and even story telling. It was amazing with a great end cap at 1:21 – no spoilers for those who want to watch VGTM [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3214002/] . To start it off »
