PySpark on macOS: installation and use

Spark is a very popular framework for data processing. It has slowly taken over the use of…

Pathfinding Algorithms

Please read me

AWESOME GO — #4

Build and Use Go Packages as C Libraries

How to Design Breathtaking 2D Platformer Levels

How to Integrate Vue.js with Rails 6

Starting with Rails 6 the default JavaScript compiler is Webpacker (not Sprockets as before)…

The Case For Not Living With Your Romantic Partner, Ever.

Farewell, ViewPager. Hello, Epoxy Carousel.

Dear ViewPager,

Visualizing Sound With D3 and Web Audio API

What better way to demonstrate its awesomeness than to stream audio input into psychedelic visuals

Android data binding in views for theming your app

How Search Engines Retrieve Information — Search and Rank Algorithms

A Simple Productivity Hack Using Bash Scripts

How to expedite workflows by launching browser tabs from…

Hand gestures using webcam and CNN (Convoluted Neural Network)

Introduction

How to Handle a Microaggression

If you’ve ever made or received one.

UITableView & UICollectionView: Automatic row height

The height of a cell can be generated…

Asking for Help at Work Feels Hard, But Do It Anyway

You’ll thank me when you do

A Strange Universe

What are these bubbles? What is Dark Matter, and Dark Energy?

Tips for Startup Founders Who Just Started Their First Product Manager Jobs

A few weeks ago, I wrote…

A Beginner’s Guide to CSS Frameworks

An introduction to some of the most popular ways to get your…

The Power Of Writing Things Down

Writing things down is the key to focused action

Anxiety Is a Superpower

Anxiety made me who I am. It’s made me empathetic to others because anxious…

40 and Single — Now What?

Dating at 40 and how to work on starting a family even if you’re not in a relationship

Don’t Let Social Media Control You.

Play the game, never let the game play you.

Predicting Graduate Admissions using Multiple Linear Regression

Introduction

The Complete Guide to the State Management in iOS

How helpful can you be as a Product Manager?

Managing the difficult balance between protecting your…

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pasta

Life lessons from an Italian kitchen

Slack wants it to be one way, but it’s the other way

“I keep my eyes on him. I keep my eyes on him. I keep my eyes on him…

What I wish someone had told me before starting a coding boot camp

I graduated from the full-time software engineering boot camp at Flatiron School two weeks ago. It was an immersive, in-person program that I had no choice but to devote my entire life to for 15 weeks. Before…

How to Solicit Advice (And Still Seem Competent)

Studies show that asking for advice is more effective…

Tools for Launching and Developing Products on JVM

How to Make the Right Decisions

This one simple truth will surprise and inspire you.

A call for more (and better) QR code experiences

Debunking fake news when the line between truth and lie is blurred

3 Reasons I am Grateful for My Disability.

One of the most common questions I get asked is, “do you wish that you had been born…

The Dangers of Perfectionism—and 11 Ways to Overcome It

The secret ingredient in stone soup is leadership

What is Time?

A Background on the Meaning of Time

Learning Algorithms and Optimization for Beginners

Learn why you should optimize algorithms with two popular examples

Every tech company follows a similar path from birth to death

The Logic of Reading and Writing

Let’s examine reading and writing as two sides of the same process, what can be called encoding…

Brands have an easy choice: Better product stories or die.

Earning Respect as a Leader

During my working life I’ve held various leadership positions in schools…

Future-proofing the architect, or how to make sure an algorithm won’t steal your job

Social Anxiety: How to Tame Your Inner Bear

Using mindfulness to remain calm in social situations

The Five Ps of life

If you have these you can conquer anything

Let’s Write About Sex

The importance of integrity and writing voice when writing about sexuality

How to Optimize the Scarcity Mindset and Abundance Mindset

Dream big, live big on small things, and…

I’m Never Watching Another Movie Trailer In My Life

The obvious benefit of media blackout

10 Tips To Better Manage Anger

Anger is a destructive force but can be a powerful tool in the right…

Bruce Springsteen’s Biggest Hit Hides a 2,000-Year-Old Revelation About Creative Work

Scalable Gaussian Processes: Posterior Approximation Methods

What Traveling to 40 Countries Taught Me About Overcoming My Own Fears

Embrace your fears to grow 10x.

Phone Call Anxiety is Real

Ring Ring. Ring Ring. Ring…. (heavy breathing)

Are You Fragile? Is Your Team Fragile? Are You Going to Wait to Find Out?

How being fragile can stunt…

3 Ways to Identify & Unlock Your Strengths

2 of them are kinda out of left field.

Cloning the Fractal Grid

An artist named Michel Poisson posted a dynamic sketch of a grid online and I couldn’t resist trying to make my…

What I Learned from Open Heart Surgery at 22 Years Old

Libra by Facebook

Will the cryptocurrency by the tech giant be really a thing for us in the future?

What Jack Higgins and Agatha Christie showed me about the three elements of storytelling.

The Power of Thank-You Notes: A Simple Way to Make Your Team Happier (And More Productive)

Turning Your Friend Into a Chatbot

A brief look at Natural Language Processing

Review: Marisa Tomei gets Manic in “The Rose Tattoo”

(Book Review) The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

On Windows, Work and Wasting Time

Maybe it is the Amish in me, but I’ve never been good at wasting time. First thing in the morning it…

Failure Is Fatal Only if We Allow It

How to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over…

What if One Day, We Weren’t Allowed to Make Our Own Decisions?

Life as we know it

Searching for the Gothic in Ikea

Viennese coffee houses, Gothic architecture, and mass consumption.

Raspberry Pi is my Digital Cake

Understanding how to serve pi.

What’s in Raspberry Pi?

On Getting Through Bouts of Self Doubt

I’ve got this. But also. Do I really have this?

Would Creatives Be Better Off Having a Daily Routine? (Yes)

Read the Fine Print in a Business Acquisition or Risk Losing It All

Canoeing in the Rain Shaped My Life

One childhood trip forever molded my outlook on hard times.

Why You Need A Teacher, Mentor And A Coach

Success in life is rarely achieved alone.

Where Branding Agencies Get It Wrong: A Self-Diagnosis

Hit Publish at Your Own Risk: The State of the Online Commenting Culture

They say if you want to be…

When you work for yourself, you lose the glass ceilings — unless you put them there

Here Are A Few Simple Ways To Build Character In Your Kids

Just spend time with your kids in peace doing stuff together.

I’m a father of two wonderful kids. Every day, they teach me something new. They even teach me…

Is the Internet A Happy Place?

An Investigation Into the Emotional State of the Internet

To Reply All Is To Fail Humanity

The white-collar “reply all” e-mail remains is an epidemic.

Reality is not always what it appears to be

a funny anecdote about life and cooking steaks

When do I start Marketing?

Considerations for Startup Founders in Their Quest to be Seen

How to Disaster-Proof Your Small Business

Disaster recovery planning is the secret weapon of…

How Your Mum Can Help you Ace SEO

I thought “Why not go to an event to learn more about SEO?” So I…

Use The Power Of Money To Fullfill Your Values And Intentions

Money alone doesn’t change the world. It…

A Millennial Looks at Thirty

I’m not afraid — I’m relieved

Next year, I’ll turn thirty…

My Deepest Fear Is To Be Seen At All

Classroom presentations and writing for an online audience of…

What Happens If You’re Just a Bad Writer?

Because the only way to get better is to keep doing it.

Finding Balance by Losing Control

Our life experiences can become defining moments if we let them.

Expectations and Author Readings

As a 31-year-old with a slew of invisible illnesses, I thought I was pretty good at managing my…

Don’t leave your employees on “Seen”

Don’t ignore the mini-mutinies!

The slow rise of the political video meme

A Canadian politician running for Prime Minister — Jagmeet…

What To Do When Life Gets In The Way Of Your Creative Plans

You always have two options: do it or…

Writing and making the search for ideas easier

Welcome to the never-ending search for ideas.

Performance Therapy for the Terminally Introverted

5 Steps to Take Charge of Each New Year

Do them — you won’t be sorry!

Facebook’s real political nightmare: Deepfakes

Video propaganda is a threat they can’t dismiss as…

Self-Publishing is Not Inherently Lesser

And to say it is ignores a hell of a lot of systemic exclusion

“I’ll never be ready”

Overcoming crippling self doubt

How to Not Crash and Burn

There are so many people who dream of working in their own business every day, while they get up and go to work…