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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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The Green New Deal that Isn’t
I’ve been hearing about the Green New Deal for over a year now. I was really excited about it, initially. Finally, our government is putting forth legislation that will do something about all the damage we’re causing. Maybe there will be a future for our planet! Today I Learned that the “Green New Deal” is […]
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A New Neighbor
When we first moved into our house I always wondered what this mound in the back was. Well today I found out. It looks like we have a new neighbor. Maybe I’ll ask them to join us for elevenses, or second breakfast. I bet his name is Mr. Underhill.
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Recursion and How to Get All the records from a paginated API
I was recently working with an API that limited the max number of items it let you call at once. This was frustrating, because I needed everything. The solution, thankfully was recursion. Recursion is really fun when you get to use it. I needed to use this solution in both JavaScript and Python, so I […]
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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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You’re not helpless, there IS something you can do to reverse climate change
It can feel hopeless watching hurricanes, floods, and droughts take down economies. Glaciers are melting, and temperatures are reaching levels that are inhabitable. If we were to solve climate change, does that mean we would have to give up all comforts, and jobs, and society, in order to live an uncomfortable life? Just to survive? […]
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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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On “Rockstar” Developers
Some teams have “rockstar” developers who only work on “spikes.” A spike is a story where a developer is assigned the task of figuring out how to accomplish something. The outcome of a spike is a prototype, or roadmap for reaching a prototype. Included in the task might be to evaluate different methods of accomplishing […]
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A New Year, A New Look
I started with my career as a professional developer through WordPress. Over a decade ago my better half and a friend got together and founded an environmental news blog. I’ve been obsessed with the environment since I was a kid. When I was six I wrote a letter to my city council representative asking him […]
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Implementing Agile – Part III – Slicing Stories
This is the piece of the puzzle I couldn’t figure out by myself. I needed to see it in action, implemented well, to understand what I was missing. I’ve seen a lot of stories sliced wrong, and some sliced well. Slicing stories properly can be the difference between a high performance team, and one floundering. […]
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Jack Reichert 