Written by Alan Arkin is one of my favorite actors. I just saw a note that he passed away yesterday. I expect I’ll look like him when I lose my hair since he looks like my dad. And every time I see Alan Arkin, I think of my dad. If you see me driving my Jeep around […]
Anna is a 35-year-old special eduction teacher of middle school students with severe and profound disabilities. She lives in rural Illinois and is currently working on completing her master’s degree in education. In the future, she’d like to move into a different teaching position that’s hopefully more lucrative since she doesn’t make enough at her […]
Whether you call it an outdoor spigot, a sill cock, an outdoor faucet, or a hose bib, the thing you use to turn on water outside is not as resilient as it looks. Knowing the standard height for an outdoor spigot matters for a number of reasons, and it’s not the only consideration you need […]
In this episode of Talking Kotlin, we are chatting with Sébastien Deleuze about the promising future and the huge potential of Kotlin for WebAssembly in the browser and beyond. Source link
The mental side of tennis used to be my biggest weakness and now it’s one of my biggest strengths. I’ve gone from being angry, self critical and spiraling out of control match after match to perfectly balancing my thoughts, feelings and mental energy. How was I able to do it? In this special episode of […]
The Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade transformed the landscape of abortion rights overnight. For the doctors, lawyers, feminists, and others who had fought for nationwide legalization, Roe was the end of a long battle. But for the growing movement against abortion rights, it was the beginning of a new battle: to protect the […]
Java’s package private visibility is an underrated feature. When you omit any visibility modifier in Java, then the default (for most objects) is package private, i.e. the object is visible only to types in the same package: class YouDontSeeMe {} class YouDontSeeMeEither {} In fact, a compilation unit (the .java file) can contain multiple such […]
There are many let’s encrypt automatic tools for azure but I also wanted to see if I could use certbot in wsl to generate a wildcard certificate for the azure Friday website and then upload the resulting certificates to azure app service. Azure app service ultimately needs a specific format called dot PFX […]
In 15 BC, mention was first made about the use of flat belt to transfer power for weaver’s shuttles in the weaving of silk. By 1430 the technology was well established, by then not just with flat belts, but also using chain drives, as depicted in one of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches. However, it was […]
In today’s episode, we delve into the testing tango and the art of Arrange, Act, and Assert (AAA), a practice that is essential when writing tests in order to structure them in a way that is coherent to other developers who may come across them. We discuss how to go about Arranging variables, how to […]