Recommendation: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
Something that many computer science students lack — command of the basic tools. This MIT course teaches the basics.
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A Notability-based Digital Bullet Journal on a Tablet — Best of Both Worlds?
If you like to use a bullet journal, but do not like the disadvantages of paper — why not use a tablet and keep a digital handwritten journal. Essentially the best of both worlds. (An idea in progress.)
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Exporting ical Calendar Entries
End of the year, time for a calendar cleanup. Here's an R script that transforms .ics entires into easy to read logbook text entries.
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Syspolicyd, Periodically High CPU Load, Reading Huge Amounts of Data, on Mac Big Sur (and likely Catalina as well)
After installing Big Sur, I noticed a periodically high CPU load, and later found out that huge amounts of data (2.8 TB, yep, *T*B) were read from the HDD within a short amount of time. Turns out, it's very very likely some unsigned .pkg files from gog.com were to blame.
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iPad 5 mini — Ideal reading and note taking everywhere device
I tried out an iPad 5 mini, and waow, that tablet has just the right size factor. Finding a case is hell, though.
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Blockchain Explained (German Video)
I played around with LEGO(TM) to try to explain blockchain. I'll probably do an English version as well, but here's the German one first.
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Great book about doing statistics with R
Recently stumbled upon a great website/book on doing statistics with R.
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Citing R and RStudio
The software is great — well worth giving credit for. And damn, they make it easy.
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Reading Books with Notability and GoodReader
Recently switched to Notability for Note-Taking on the iPad. It works very well for making notes when reading books as well.
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Remote Usability Testing on Mobiles with WebEx Meetings
One of the nice results of all this video conferencing — you find out how to do remote usability testing on mobiles.
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