The “problem” Unsure if this qualifies as OCD, laziness, or medically-dangerous impatience; but I have a very low tolerance for wasting time on things that can somewhat-easily be automated or done faster. Especially if the tasks are repetitive. For example, after I log into my laptop, having to use my hands to…

Some people may spin things up using numbers, but in general, numbers don’t lie.

At least one person is asking me if they should go to a coding bootcamp once per month. That’s not a whole lot, but it gives me an excuse to write this up. Going To Bootcamp I went to a coding bootcamp ~two years ago mainly because (1) I had already started to…

Have you ever heard versions of the following statements? “Software Engineering interviews are broken”, “Why does it matter if I know how to implement a Binary Search Tree, everyone looks at StackOverflow on the job”, “Who cares about Big O notation, I can create a React.js app in my sleep” …

Had a strong hunch, though now I’m 100% sure: coding isn’t for me. After — together with 40%+ of Groupon — being laid-off during Covid19, I was able to pivot into software development. Something I wanted to do for a really long time. ~2 years later (160+ repos, 3k+ commits…

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Here’s what I found. Count 143,859.¹ Full table: https://unicode-table.com/en/#basic-latin Methodology This short article assumes that by now, every useful/usable/commonly-used character has been encoded and added to the unicode standard. This is not necessarily the case. In fact, “Unicode standard doesn’t freeze, it continues to evolve.”² Definitions Character (computing): In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.³

Here’s what I found. Count 97. Entire lit: https://github.com/aa-ag/counting_stuff/blob/main/http_status.txt Definitions HTTP: The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is an application layer protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.¹ (HTTP) Status Codes: are issued by a server in response to a client’s request made to the server. It includes codes from IETF Request for Comments (RFCs), other specifications, and some additional codes used in some common applications of the HTTP. The first digit of the status code specifies one of five standard classes of responses. The message phrases shown are typical, but any human-readable alternative may be provided. Unless otherwise stated, the status code is part of the HTTP/1.1 standard (RFC 7231).²

Here’s what I found. Count 1635. Entire list: https://github.com/aa-ag/counting_stuff/blob/main/formats.txt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats Definitions A file format: A format for encoding information in a file. Each different type of file has a different file format. The file format specifies first whether the file is a binary or ASCII file, and second, how the information is organized.¹