A trend I’ve started to notice across many different disciplines is that when you deny the “majority” in favor of a high quality “minority”, you tend to come out ahead. Some examples:
My first exposure to this concept was a few years ago when I was working at …
Continue ReadingSo for the past several months I’ve been mentoring a high school robotics team. In that time I’ve come to realize that there are remarkable similarities between running an FRC team and running a startup. Here’s a quick list:
Solve the problem as fast as possible – expect …
Continue ReadingI didn't break it, it was given to me broken
It would surprise me if I’m the first person to create something like this, let alone think of it. That being said, I’ve figured out a way to secretly embed a python program inside of another without the embeded program being visible in the second program. It works like this:
… Continue ReadingIt's easier than you think
The way programmers program programs are not always obvious when first starting out. When I was young and would see special effects in movies and TV shows, I would ask my dad “How do they make special effects?” And he would respond “With computers”.
Despite being the most generic answer …
Continue ReadingFocus on the things that matter, remove the things that don’t.
Writing software takes a lot of focus, and unfortunately we can’t just snap our fingers and be instantly in the zone. It takes time, but there are a bunch of things we can do to help that along. This is a list of things that I’ve found over the years …
Continue ReadingA little perspective can go a long way
Last year after I shut down my first startup, I resigned myself to apply for jobs to keep me on my feet. I’d learned a lot over the course of the previous year, managing people, tons of web technologies, how to stick with a project for a long time through …
Continue Reading...or unicode in a nutshell
We’ve been told time and time again that variables in Python must begin with a letter or underscore, but that’s not quite the whole story. In fact, given how expansive unicode is, it’s almost none of the story. The truth is that as of Python 3.9 using Unicode 13 you …
Continue ReadingThere’s so much more to it than just the code
Building your own Software as a Service (SaaS) startup is a lot more than just writing a piece of software and sending it to your friends over instant message. There are a lot of pitfalls and nuances that I’ve dealt with over the course of building my own startup that …
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