program – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Quickly Renaming Variables in R

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Just some short code to make renaming variables in R less sucky.
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Let’s avoid digital stupidity

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

Digital devices can help us immensely, but they shouldn't replace our intelligence and skills.
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Fuck Motivation, make behavior easier

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

An observation about students designing apps — they seem to be preoccupied with motivation, instead of making things easier.
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Recommendation: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

2021-01-31 | Reading time: 1 minute

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?

2021-01-06 | Reading time: 14 minutes

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

2020-12-08 | Reading time: 2 minutes

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)

2020-12-02 | Reading time: 2 minutes

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

2020-11-20 | Reading time: 2 minutes

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)

2020-09-18 | Reading time: 1 minute

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

2020-09-07 | Reading time: 1 minute

Recently stumbled upon a great website/book on doing statistics with R.
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