jbranchaud

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by jbranchaud 11y ago
I love this technique! I take notes in a small notebook during the day and then look back at in the evening to see if there is anything worth TIL'ing about.
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
Everyone at my company really got behind the idea of TILs too, so we created a little web app for it -- https://til.hashrocket.com/
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
I generally take about 5 minutes at some point each evening to write up something that I learned that day or earlier that week. I've always viewed them as being quick and easy to write up which has taken away the intimidation that can
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
Good catch, I ought to move that over to the Mac section.
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
It is fun to see what technologies I've been writing about the most over the long run -- Vim and PostgreSQL seem to be the big ones!
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
yes, I just placed each post alphabetically as I went.
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
For me, this is all about tracking my personal learning. I reference old posts several times a week. I hope others can learn from it as well!
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Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year(github.com)
819 points by jbranchaud 11y ago|150 comments
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Upserting Records with PostgreSQL 9.5(hashrocket.com)
3 points by jbranchaud 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
Author here: So far I'm really digging Postgres 9.5, especially the Upsert/On Conflict syntax. I'd appreciate any feedback on the blog post itself. The aim of the post is to help introduce people to a new feature that might n
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Switch vs. Map: Which Is the Better Way to Branch in Go?(hashrocket.com)
1 points by jbranchaud 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Metabot – a Markov chain Slackbot generator built with Go(metabot.hashrocket.com)
2 points by jbranchaud 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
One of the developers here, you can access Metabot itself at http://metabot.hashrocket.com/
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A Peek into the Clojure Community and Some Must-Watch Talks from Clojure/conj(hashrocket.com)
1 points by jbranchaud 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
I enjoyed the closing line of the article: > That is, after all, the acid test of a truly clean user interface: nobody notices it.
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
It'd be cool if the creator used some filler text on the labels generated on the home page so that we could see what it looks like that way.
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
Author here, what are some of your favorite uses of common table expressions?
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Understanding Common Table Expressions with FizzBuzz(hashrocket.com)
7 points by jbranchaud 11y ago|1 comments
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by jbranchaud 11y ago
This is the approach we take with TIL at Hashrocket -- http://til.hashrocket.com/
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by jbranchaud 12y ago
What sort of use cases do you have in mind for this project?
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by jbranchaud 12y ago
A lot of people have been linking to Assembly lately, but is there anyone actually supplementing their income with it? Is it at all common to do so?
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Ask HN: What is your favorite data structures book?
8 points by jbranchaud 12y ago|11 comments
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by jbranchaud 12y ago
This is a really nice, extensive guide. However, I think when introducing Git and its internals for the first time, it is essential to use graphs/diagrams. This tutorial doesn't have any which is its biggest shortcoming. Regardles
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by jbranchaud 12y ago
If it is, then it isn't a very well designed experiment because Google is a reputable and trusted (?) entity, so it isn't much of a leap to give access (especially when one already has gmai, gcal, etc. running in other tabs).
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by jbranchaud 12y ago
The author is a woman.
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by jbranchaud 12y ago
Do you know who this quote is attributed to?
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This is called a droitwich(english.stackexchange.com)
3 points by jbranchaud 12y ago|0 comments
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by jbranchaud 12y ago
Exactly. I am curious from a technical standpoint how a company/service is able to figure out the coordinates associated with a given IP address.
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by jbranchaud 12y ago
This isn't necessarily open-source work, but it is still opportunities to collaborate on real projects with other developers -- https://assembly.com/
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Ask HN: How are IP addresses geocoded to latitude and longitude?
6 points by jbranchaud 12y ago|6 comments

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