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Combined my blog with my portfolio, and got them all hosted on my own business. Drop on by! [goto](https://newschematic.org/)

With the recent announcement that Vine will be getting shuttered, I’m reminded of the uncertainty that all free web-based services face. As such, I’ve decided to move my blog off of Tumblr. While this decision is partly about wanting to get ahead of any potential disruptions in service, its roots are in mainitaining control and exercising autonomy. For this site, I decided to use Hugo, a static site generator written in Go. I could talk about how fast it is, how there’s no point in my reinventing this wheel, or how I get to write my posts in Github-flavored Markdown. But really, most of my decision was based on the fact that Julia Evans uses it for her very excellent blog. #socialproof ...

brew install go worked well, as expected. However, at the end of the installation, the notes suggest I add GOROOT to my path: You may wish to add the GOROOT-based install location to your PATH: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/opt/go/libexec/bin Buuuuut, it didn’t work. After trying out some different iterations, I was reminded when ls-ing through the surrounding directories that /usr/local/opt/go/... was aliased because Homebrew. This Stack Overflow answer reinforced my hunch. So, I updated my .zshrc: ...

Learning about the random function in Processing is evoking the same feeling I had when I first learned about HTML’s <blink> tag.

In 1996 Keith Shafer and several others proposed a solution to the problem of broken URLs. The link to this solution is now broken. Roy Fielding posted an implementation suggestion in July of 1995. The link is now broken. src

…making positive outcomes the easiest and default approach creates positive feedback loops src via this tweet

Sunday Funday.

http://frontside.io/blog/2016/07/07/the-conjoined-triangles-of-senior-level-development.html

PowerPoint is just simulated acetate overhead slides, and to me, that is a kind of a moral crime. Alan Kay, src

def fact(n): return reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, range(1, n + 1)) print(fact(5)) #=> 120