tw

So, wait, what is a Raspberry Pi? If you’re not yet aware, the Pi is a palm-sized computer originally built for young student learners. It is low cost and low power. It comes with no software preinstalled. A flavor of the Debian Linux operating system, called Raspbian, can be installed on an inexpensive microSD card and plugged into the available slot on the Pi board. Some versions come with USB and HDMI ports. Recent Pi models (Including 3 B+, 4, and Zero) come equipped with Wireless and Bluetooth. It is built with the novice in mind. The full distro of Raspbian comes with packaged with the software you might want to have in order to use the Pi like any other home computer.

Read the rest of the post here: http://tiwygwymw.us/ii

Poetry, like a photograph or a painting or a novel, is an object crafted by a human being. Not unlike Ruby or Javascript. It is designed to transmit information. Not just the facts on the page, but an emotion or feeling from the writer to the reader. Yes, art does fail to achieve this more often than not, though even objectively “bad” poetry will mean something, to someone. Rearrange the words on the page, change the structure or the syntax of a sentence and even that can mean something. See the work of e.e. cummings.

Code, on the other hand, fails completely when syntax and structure is not met exactly.

Read the rest here

I’ve long worked software developer-adjacent, and I’ve dabbled in the command line. While the regular English phrase “Regular Expression” was not immediately available in my memory banks, Regex is. Regex = Regular Expression. Always Be Learning.

The lab that day was called Piglatinizer. Idea was to take in a string, one word or many, and convert it to pig latin . Pig latin constructed by splitting a word by the first vowel, appending the first part to then end of the second and applying “ay.” Words that start with a vowel simply have “way” (or other, regional variations) stuck to the end. So “snickers” becomes “ickerssnay” and “apple” becomes “appleway.”

SO MUCH FUN, RIGHT?

Keep reading here: http://tiwygwymw.us/gv

I’ve been riding my bike to the Metro to head into DC to attend the Flatiron School. I’m not particularly “strong” or “physically fit.” I’m not good at “balancing” or “riding in straight lines.” But parking is $5 a day and, you know, the environment. So I bike, which means I worry about getting rolled over by a middle aged dude in an SUV. The lane I ride down is pretty vacant first thing or last thing. So if I was run over, it would be a good long while before someone found my body.

I came across a Twitter bot, @HowsMyDrivingNY. Tweet a license plate at the bot, and she will respond with chapter and verse on speed and red-light camera violations in the 5 boroughs of New York. 

Read the full post here: http://tiwygwymw.us/gm

Unusual Suspects is the Mulder/Gunmen origin story. In a scene with a character, “Holly,” who is running from the Cigarette Smoking Man, when she asks him about his hacking skills, Frohike tells her that his “Kung Fu is the Best.” The phrase, a kung fu film trope and well-worn in-group code from the black-trench-coat-and-combat-boot nerds, struck in my brain. I liked it so much at the time that I added it as my signature on my home printed business cards.

I seriously I thought that was sufficient to will myself to success (whatever that means) without having to actually put in any work. I had no patience. Success as a writer would find me.

Read the entire post here: http://tiwygwymw.us/gi