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Around 2007, I started using a service called ShareBuilder, which was an online broker dealer that offered regular, automated, and dollar-based trades in the stock market. You set the amount, and the equity, and they took care of the rest. I recall signing up for a paid plan through them which came with some perks, …
As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in software development, many programmers are curious about their practical applications. In this article, I’ll share my experience using Claude.ai to create a Discord bot, offering insights into the strengths and limitations of AI-assisted coding. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know what Discord is. It’s …
Day 2 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI, this is my solution to checkpoint 1. The rules are to create a constant holding any temperature in Celsius, convert it to Fahrenheit, and then print out both values. I used explicit type definition for the constants, so I didn’t have to remember to add a decimal to the Celsius temperature. …
🎉 I just finished Day 1 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at https://hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/1 via @twostraws
Fair warning, this post may get a bit long, maybe skip to the TL;DR A brief history It was the late 90’s, early 2000’s that I first got a taste for *nix. At that time it came in the form of two distributions of Linux. One of them was a version of Mandrake titled “Linux4Win” …
After reading Hustle: The Life Changing Effects of Constant Motion, which was written in three days (and published in seven), I got a crazy idea. What if I wrote a book in a month? Of course, that idea occurred to me on the first day of February — what a perfect time, right? So is …
Well here we are, almost entirely through the month of January in 2017. I thought I’d give some thoughts on my reading progress in 2016. Don’t worry, this will be short… As you can see by checking my reading list, 2016 wasn’t a great year for me. I only managed to read through 21 books …
I recently read D. Michael Abrashoff’s It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, and I found it a very enjoyable read. I’d highly recommend it for anyone, but especially those in leadership positions. Abrashoff walks us through 11 fundamentals of leadership he used to turn the USS Benfold around …
2015 saw me start keeping track of the books I read, and sharing that with the world directly from my reading list as well as on Goodreads. I managed to read a respectable 43 books in 2015 (my goal was 24). Some of them took me a while, some I breezed through in a day. …
These are the books I’ve bought in the last two weeks or so. Looks like I’ll be busy reading for quite some time (completely ignoring the large number of books I already have on hand that I’ve yet to read).