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Learning through books
I stumbled upon this post by a certain Reddit user that made me rethink the way I should look at learning through books. The tl;dr version is you read books when you are learning new concepts in order to figure out what questions you need to ask. Read More
Fun Puzzles for Programmers
I found this neat article from DataGeneticsĀ that has a bunch of fun puzzles and challenges for programmers. Hints and answers can be found in the article here. 1. Two Bases Challenge: Find three digits X, Y and Z such that XYZ in base10 is equal to ZYX in base9. 2. One Million Challenge: Write 1,000,000 as the product of two numbers; neither of which contains any zeroes. Read More
Fixing RTL8723ae Driver for Ubuntu Linux
Update: If you have RTL8723be and are experiencing difficulties try this I love Ubuntu. XUbuntu to be more specific but it's still Ubuntu. I love it so much I made it my main OS and haven't looked back since. There are a few issues with this driver (RTL8723AE) that I've had to deal with though, and here's one of them. Read More
Making a custom bash prompt
After using XUbuntu as my main OS I loved it, but there was one problem. I got really tired of seeing the ENTIRE directory in the bash prompt, especially when working with Wordpress. For those of you with the same problem here's how I got mine looking nice again: Read More
Python Package info from Command Line
If you ever come across the need to find out more about a python package before installing it, this package would be awesome for you! Read More
Adding Theme Options to a Thematic Child Theme
Thematic is a pretty awesome theme framework for Wordpress, but there are some annoying things about it. One annoying thing I ran into was not being able to easily create a nifty looking Theme Options page. Themes like Avada gave me the impression that they were not all that difficult, but I was wrong, I was horribly wrong. After tutorial searching for a day I've put together a template that might help you out in the future if you ever need something like this. Read More