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0. On Being 42, and the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
As a person who is now 42, I feel like I’m supposed to know all the answers. I remember being nine and thinking that I now have a framework for all knowledge. To clarify, I didn’t think I knew everything, just that I sorta understood how things connected together, and how to fill in the…
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Star of David
This is a Star of David. It is a symbol of pride for my people, adopted by the movement born out of our need for self determination in our ancestral homeland after millennia of exile and persecution — the Zionist movement. The chant of hope my people spoke, during the darkest nights, during pogroms, holocaust,…
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Dignity in Tech
In my senior year of high school I taught myself HTML. That was right after HTML4 came out, and it made more complicated web designs possible. I had to lay out images using tables, but I could still do it. I was learning Pascal in school and took to coding like a dog to a…
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A Year of Shakespeare
I spent this past year reading all the plays of Shakespeare. Each has five acts, a play runs 2-3 hours, an act can be read in 30-45 minutes. There are 38 plays, so you can read a play a week and finish well within a year. I spent most evenings reading an act, often listening…
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Buds of Spring
Buds of spring are always delicate, regardless of the age of the tree.
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I’m Back WordPress, I missed you! So Long Hugo, Hello JAMStack!
My career, and development as an engineer, can be followed through the evolution, redesign, and rebuilding of this site — www.jackreichert.com. Initially I launched on shared WordPress hosting, and built on top starter themes. It was rudimentary, but it worked, and I got my first full-time tech job with those skills. As I learned systems…
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Please Unfollow Me
If you followed me during the election because we share values, but you don’t “believe” my people have a right to self determination in their homeland, you can go ahead and unfollow me now. Please let the door hit your backside on the way out. I’m American and Jewish. I was brought to Israel as…
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Rules for a “Smart” Home
The Promise Chips are smaller and cheaper than they’ve ever been. That means that we can measure and control things, affordably, more than we ever could. However, in a race to see what we can possibly create, there are many companies that haven’t thought if they really should be creating what they are. Steve Jobs…
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Two Fundamental Things Wrong with Social Networks
There are many things wrong with social networks and I won’t cover all of them here. But I’d like to address two. Productivity Tech really shines when it comes to making tasks more efficient. But I don’t want my relationships to be more efficient! There was a time before social networks where I had lists…
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Developers Are Lazy, And That’s A Good Thing
Originally published on forbes.com. I’m lazy, and most great developers I know are lazy too. I would much rather spend a day developing an import script to import 2,000-3,000 pieces of content than spend that day manually importing that content. Sure, I could put on a podcast or book in the background while I manually…
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