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·Jul 5

What is a REST API?

A simple, entry level explanation — If you’re reading this, I’m going to assume you know what an API is and what HTTP is. If you don’t, this article probably isn’t the right place to start. REST is an acronym for REpresentational State Transfer, but that alone doesn’t really tell you much. REST, or RESTful APIs…

Software Development

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What is a REST API?
What is a REST API?
Software Development

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Geek Culture

·Jun 29

Are We Wrong About Everything?

Oddly enough, this story begins with Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher. The father of modern science, who created a precursor to the scientific method. A man whose contributions to mathematics continue to be built on today, whose ideas about economics and politics touched every subsequent society. …

Philosophy

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Are We Wrong About Everything?
Are We Wrong About Everything?
Philosophy

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Geek Culture

·Jun 19

Is Every Game of Solitaire Winnable?

The Problem There are as many possible games of Solitaire as there are permutations of a deck of cards. That’s something like 8 * 10⁶⁷ possible games, or 8 followed by 67 zeros. It’s an impossibly large number — seeing it written out is absurd: 80000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 If you shuffle a deck of…

Software Development

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Is Every Game of Solitaire Winnable?
Is Every Game of Solitaire Winnable?
Software Development

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Geek Culture

·Mar 22

What Happened to Software Engineering?

Software engineers were on top of the world 2 years ago. What went wrong? If you’re a software engineer, you know as well as I do that things are a lot different now than they were two years ago. …

Software Engineering

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What Happened to Software Engineering?
What Happened to Software Engineering?
Software Engineering

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Geek Culture

·Dec 15, 2022

I Built A Free Tool To Speed Up Frontend Development

The Problem If you do a lot of frontend development, you have probably built a website or an app that interacts with an API. Interacting with APIs is a big part of frontend development. You might be retrieving information from an API and displaying it on a webpage. …

Software Development

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I Built A Free Tool To Speed Up Frontend Development
I Built A Free Tool To Speed Up Frontend Development
Software Development

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Geek Culture

·Dec 2, 2022

ChatGPT’s Future, In Its Own Words

I asked ChatGPT some questions about its role in the future of work. me: What role will you play in the future of work? ChatGPT: As a language model, my primary role will continue to be assisting with language-related tasks. This could include answering questions, generating text, and translating languages…

AI

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ChatGPT’s Future, In Its Own Words
ChatGPT’s Future, In Its Own Words
AI

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Nov 28, 2022

The Peter Principle

An anti-pattern in business What is the Peter Principle? If you follow me, you know I normally write about software engineering. You’ll find a lot of the discourse concerning the peter principle is related to software engineering, but the peter principle isn’t exclusive to software engineering. …

Life Lessons

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The Peter Principle
The Peter Principle
Life Lessons

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Geek Culture

·Nov 28, 2022

Experiment With Your Life

Attempting to apply the scientific method to self-improvement I recently came across a post on reddit that inspired me to re-think how I improve myself and increase my quality of life. u/HeroJournal and their girlfriend tracked how different video games impacted their mood over the course of a year:

Self Improvement

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Experiment With Your Life
Experiment With Your Life
Self Improvement

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Geek Culture

·Jun 16, 2022

The Monty Hall Problem

A simple brain teaser that stumped one of history’s most prolific mathematicians. The Monty Hall problem is a probability puzzle based on the American television show Let’s Make a Deal. …

Mathematics

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The Monty Hall Problem
The Monty Hall Problem
Mathematics

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Level Up Coding

·Apr 21, 2022

Ask the Interviewer

What questions should you ask at the end of an interview? In standard interviews, the last 5–15 minutes are typically given to the candidate as an opportunity to ask the interviewer questions. …

Software Development

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Ask the Interviewer
Ask the Interviewer
Software Development

3 min read

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Michael Faber

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