Programming, Day 18
Moved the home PC to Bionic Beaver.
Set it up so I can ssh into it from outside.
I’m so happy, I now have a powerful machine to actually process work on, instead of my dinky little iPad.

Sick yesterday. So read lots of NGINX articles on the web.
Feel like I need to be conversant with its directives, considering all the web server slinging I’ve been doing
Moved the home PC to Bionic Beaver.
Set it up so I can ssh into it from outside.
I’m so happy, I now have a powerful machine to actually process work on, instead of my dinky little iPad.
Brushing up old Python for an hour
Didn’t do much.
Helped Kushal moderate the first day of the DGPLUG summer training, though.
This episode (Season 2, Episode 1) on blogging is very important to me. I think it’s a distillation of all of Seth’s thoughts about writing and blogging in a crisp, crackling 20 minute episode.
I wanted this for permanant reference, so I thought, I’d transcribe it for myself, and then I thought, well, if it helps me, it’ll surely help others.
So here you go.
It’s all Seth below …
P.S. Typos and errors, omissions and emphases, entirely mine.
Since I’ve been having so much trouble grasping the basic fundamentals of coding, I decided to learn from “children’s” books.
Lauren Ipsum has been lying in my library for a while now. Here’s the summary from the introductory pages,
Lauren, a clever girl lost in Userland, applies logic and problem solving skills to find her way home, encountering along the way such concepts as timing attacks, algorithm design, and the traveling salesman problem.