My journey to set up the easiest touch and shortest travel possible on a keyboard led me to a Planck-EZ keyboard with switches with modified springs, but it didn’t stop there. — (Edit 7/2020: added info about gergoplex. Edit 10/4/2020: just found out about gateron optical yellows! More info and link at bottom of post) This article is aimed primarily at people with unusual keyboarding needs, such as those dealing with RSI (repetitive stress injury). There is a difficult learning curve to using super light touch switches, during which time you will likely see a lot of extra home row characters sprinkled throughout your documents…

There are unknown worlds to explore, hidden within the seemingly simplest of tasks — According to the Infinite Coastline Paradox, the length of the coastline increases as our measurements become more precise. Imagine measuring the length of the coastline around Great Britain. If you only had a meter stick to lay end to end around the entire coast, you would get a seemingly accurate…

This information is compiled from many sources and is the complete record of my successful install. Start here to save yourself a lot of time. — New readers, ignore this note. Note to previous readers who may need help updating their S3 bucket policy: here is the fix https://medium.com/@alexjacobs/did-you-get-the-aws-s3-bucket-security-email-77fa69ea21c0 . This install guide you are now reading is for Sendy version 4. It was tested on Sendy version 4.0.2 with the latest server config available on Digital Ocean

This information is compiled from many sources and is the complete record of my successful install. Start here to save yourself a lot of time. — New readers, ignore this note. Note to previous readers who may need help updating their S3 bucket policy: here is the fix https://medium.com/@alexjacobs/did-you-get-the-aws-s3-bucket-security-email-77fa69ea21c0 . I just published a more recent update covering Sendy 4.0. It is nearly identical to this guide. Some images and text were updated to reflect the most recent install experience. I complete re-installed and re-verified the install process using Sendy 4.0.2 . You can find the newly updated install instructions at this link: https://medium.com/@alexjacobs/installing-sendy-as-a-replacement-for-mailchimp-2019-version-4-update-the-complete-guide-with-a9358bbb2399

Unwiring self defined limits by completing the Stanford University Machine Learning Course by Andrew Ng. — This article consists of 2 parts: A personal story about overcoming challenges with the help of expert guidance An overview of the Machine Learning course Part 1 Until my first semester of college, I enjoyed taking math classes, and was placed in AP courses through high school. During my first semester of…

What is data visualization? And how does it relate to making sense of cloud-based resources? — The head of engineering at Solinea.com and I had a proposal accepted to present together at the OpenStack conference in Tokyo in October, 2015. The ‘teaser’ for our presentation: “Visualizing OpenStack data is one of the most powerful ways to…

Between totality, and anything else… — After viewing the totality of the Great American Total Solar Eclipse on August 21st, 2017, I realized an important lesson: When comparing the totality experience, and any other degree of coverage, you either experience 100%, or not. I believe a partial eclipse is also a beautiful natural phenomenon, but I…

or, how the future decodes the past. — In college I worked at the Listening Room in the basement of the college library for 3 years. It was called “work study”. It was part of my financial aid package. It was not fair. Most of my classmates were paid the same hourly wage to work in dining services…

Stream this entire playlist via youtube — Cat Stevens: Moon shadow Sun Kill Moon: Tonight the Sky Pink Floyd: Eclipse (from Dark Side of The Moon) Nick Drake: Pink Moon Sun Ra: Medicine for a Nightmare Leadbelly: Midnight Special Empire of the sun: Walking on a Dream Animals: House of the Rising Sun Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun Ray Lamontagne: ‘Til the Sun Turns Black Inspiration for this playlist comes from a man whose father was inspired to name him Casey Jones. However his mom lacked the same said inspiration . . . so it’s mostly his name.