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bad digital art ideas
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Recursive hexagon patterns
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Daily Learnings: René Magritte, Corner of heart-to-hearts and How Children Fail
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Daily Learnings: Vint Cerf, obscure browser caveats & restorative yoga
I spent most of the past 3 days at Google I/O, which was a lot of information overload. I could talk about what happened there, but most tech news sites are already doing a good job at it, so I’m just gonna mention random things of particular interest.
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Daily Learnings: Service Workers and San Jose
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Daily Learnings: How Children Fail, vintage vibrators and distributed database sacrifices
I am starting a daily log of interesting things I have learned in a day. I just spent a week reunited with alumni of the Recurse Center, an endlessly curious and excited community of programmers and learned so many interesting things that are worth sharing.
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Unexpected Chrome vs Edge popstate firing
Discovery of the day: Edge always fires a
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Doing the NY Times Crossword Puzzle
Warning: NYT crossword puzzle spoilers
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How To Delete Code
Most of the time we talk about how to write code, but rarely do we ever talk about deleting code. Every now and then, a feature gets decommissioned and an engineer is tasked with removing it. Sometimes I’m that engineer.
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Perfume Series Part 6: Perfume in my life today
Continued from Part 5 of a series where I talk about perfume and smells. This is the last post of this series.
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Perfume Series Part 5: What do other people smell like
Continued from Part 4 of a series where I talk about perfume and smells.
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Perfume Series Part 4: Scented memories of my family
Continued from Part 3 of a series where I talk about perfume and smells.
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Perfume Series Part 3: A short-lived first love
Continued from Part 2 of a series where I talk about perfume and smells.
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Perfume Series Part 2: Sales assistants at department stores are terrifying
Continued from Part 1 of a series where I talk about perfume and smells.
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Part 1: Nail polish made me puke
This is usually a technical blog, but I’ll be taking a break from the usual programming of programming-related posts (hah, pun) to talk about my other closeted obsession: smells.
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On Saying "I don't know"
I recently found myself learning the difference between shims and polyfills. I have heard both terms on many occasions but never had the guts to ask for details, with much regret. So I tweeted the following:
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Browserify, ES6 and Rails integration notes
Some notes on integrating Browserify in our Viki Rails app via the browserify-rails gem and getting it to play nice with ES6 and
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What does Sher Minn snack on every day?
I logged my snack intake for a month and made charts out of it.
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My Recurse Center Experience
I spent 3 months at the Recurse Center (RC) in NYC last year. I’ve been meaning to write about the experience itself, and what happened after for awhile now, so here goes! I’ve also had a lot of similar questions from people who are curious about RC, and so I thought I’d gather the questions and my answers to them in a blog post.
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Clearing saved app data on MacOS X
In which I poke around ~/Library to hunt down vestiges of saved app data to stop GifLoopCoder from hanging on me.
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How to think in CSS?
For those who are new to front-end web development, CSS can seem like this weird, magical realm full of rules that do not make much sense. This article is about the approach I take to ‘CSS-ing’ a project. Given a vision of a webpage, how should we go about creating it?
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Animating Leaflet Markers (the hacky way)
I spent the last two weeks visualizing MTA Subway data – all of the entrances and exits for a week in October 2015. You can see it here and the corresponding repository for the code:
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Subway Turnstile Charts!
I have pretty charts! Courtesy of Plotly, which Kristin recommended. Paired with Miriam on learning how to create simple charts with it, which was super productive. It is sooo easy and so good to use. Would totally recommend for quick and pain-free graphs.
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Messing with MTA Subway Turnstile Data
So I haven’t been as good at blogging for the past month. My last post was on week 3 at RC, yikes. In the meantime, I have:
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Image Processing - Part 1: Sobel Edge Detection
I spent a lot of time this week learning about and implementing the Sobel edge detection filter with Javascript on
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Animations with CSS
See the Pen Sunset - CSS Animation only by Sher Minn Chong (@piratefsh) on CodePen.
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Deploying a WebRTC app and STUN/TURN Servers
I built a video chat app last week. Now it was time to deploy it and a STUN/TURN server. Lots of frustrated configuration work happened.
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WebRTC Video Chat app
I spent the past few days using WebRTC API (barebones, without a library) to build a simple video only sharing app. To go along with that, I also built a simple signalling server (more on this later) to help establish the initial connection.
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Starting at the Recurse Center
Today is Day 2 at the Recurse Center, and I’m making it a point to write down stuff that I’ve been working on, regardless of how small they are!
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Battle of the Captchas
My task this week was to figure out an alternative captcha to Google’s ReCaptcha. Here’s a quick history lesson on the ReCaptcha and some other options to it.
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Adventures in site optimization
I’ve been working on a company website. It’s a Wordpress site with a custom theme built from scratch to reduce any wastage as it’s a rather custom layout. Page load times have been rather slow, so I used Google’s PageSpeed Insights as a guideline on things to improve.
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Freelance
I’m currently available for freelance projects, particularly front-end web development. I do anything from one-page websites to AngularJS apps. I work a lot with HTML5/CSS3 and Javascript, and particularly enjoy developing Javascript features and UI/UX work.
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Hello World!
Hi all, this is a quick introduction before actual content goes up! I’m Sher Minn (that’s a two-word first name, y’all) and I’m a front-end web developer at Soft Space during the day, and co-founder and organizer of Code Equality during the night. I teach an intro HTML/CSS class.
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