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Re: Invalid US-ASCII character “\xE2” on line 54 workaround

blake41 — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:17:11 -0000

haha, this also happened to me....you're a lifesaver

Re: How to change Jekyll theme to Minimal Mistakes

blake41 — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:27:07 -0000

I spent literally half a day trying to get this thing to work. Got all manner of errors trying to deploy to github pages. This worked immediately, the way I expected it to when I went down this path. I have no idea what was wrong before, so much time debugging and STILL no idea wtf. Thank you so much!

Re: Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

blake41 — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:32:37 -0000

this is fascinating. thanks for sharing

Re: solnic.eu

blake41 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:18:42 -0000

I'm a little late to the party here. If you're using a rails observer and you've hooked in to the lifecycle of the AR callbacks, isn't the observer going to fire in your test? Aren't you still going to have to stub out that observer from doing its thing as opposed to stubbing the model's callback itself?

Re: The Surprising Key to Getting More of Everything You Ever Wanted

blake41 — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:23:06 -0000

Really enjoyed this. I'm always amazed by how many things I do that are "out of my comfort zone" and my friends think I'm nuts for doing, and yet how visceral my fear is of doing other things that don't seem objectively and crazier/scarier/more difficult. It's strange to me that that courage muscle waxes and wanes depending on the particular thing, rather than being fearless, I'm situationally fearless and still terrified in other situations. I've had one project on the backburner for months now because I'm too scared to put it into action. I think this is still a great technique to build up the courage muscle.

Re: - Thisisgoingtobebig.com - Stop

blake41 — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:38:13 -0000

I love this

Re: How I'm Learning Javascript

blake41 — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:17:45 -0000

Congrats on the job and good luck! I'm sure you're going to crush it.

Re: Adventures in Club Soda Land [Part 1]

blake41 — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:00:02 -0000

"Truthfully though its the desire to be completely comfortable doing anything that's the overarching motivation here."

That makes a lot of sense to me. It's something I've thought a lot about. It's always struck me that I just have more fun when I am drinking, and it's not clear to me that could be replicated without drinking regardless of whether or not I'm comfortable. It's certainly possible I've been using alcohol as a crutch to have fun for so long I've never developed the muscle of having fun without alcohol and so I can't imagine it.

Re: Adventures in Club Soda Land [Part 1]

blake41 — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:14:22 -0000

I'd be curious to hear you dig further into why you're giving up drinking. You said you're not the man you want to be. Who are you when you drink? And who are you when you don't drink? What is it about the guy you are when you're not drinking that you prefer?

Re: Unschool Yourself!

blake41 — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:39:30 -0000

What an excellent post as usual. Thanks for the perspective. I'm a C- too!

Re: Confident Ruby now in Alpha

blake41 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:16:30 -0000

Just read the finished parts of the alpha and loving it. Can't wait till the rest is done!

Re: Lessons Learned Getting Other People to Sell My Ebook

blake41 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:22:23 -0000

Congrats jesse. I've purchased both of your book and they were two of the most helpful programming books I've ever read. Thanks so much.

Re: 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Entering the Workforce

blake41 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:18:10 -0000

An interesting thing I've learned is that going to Dartmouth was as much of a prison as it was a door opener. Even though post college I've hardly taken the traditional path, I subconsciously avoided pursuing certain things. Dartmouth students should make a certain income, have certain jobs, shouldn't fail at anything, have a certain level of success etc. etc. I had a whole bunch of bullshit made up in my head that kept me from doing what I really wanted to be doing (which was programming). If I started over I'd have to be a novice. I'd have to ask stupid questions. I'd make no money. I might never get a job. There were so many fears I had that I didn't even consciously realize I had. Realizing my fears, and the mental prison I had put myself in gave me a new lease on life. Starting over was incredibly powerful. Being able to admit I didn't know all the answers. Humbling myself and asking many people for help was life altering.

Re: Amazing Deal: 100,000 American Miles With Citi Credit Cards

blake41 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:08:00 -0000

Ugh lucky you. Did you have to chat with a rep online for these cards? I had to do that for both although the second one in the second browser locked me out saying they had to review my application.

Re: Amazing Deal: 100,000 American Miles With Citi Credit Cards

blake41 — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:14:03 -0000

I just did it a few days ago, got approved for the first after chatting online with a rep, denied for the second due to it being for first time cardmembers only.

Re: Codecademy Update

blake41 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:01:34 -0000

Interesting. I guess I just assumed they purchased it given that's it's redirecting now. Clearly I'm wrong.
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Re: Codecademy Update

blake41 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:20:37 -0000

they bought the domain codeacademy.com though which redirects to codecademy.com

Re: Feature Request - LinkedIn Lists

blake41 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:01:22 -0000

Interesting thought. I've thought a lot about how one could prove/measure one's ability to do less quantifiable things like sales/BD/marketing/. When you hire a developer you want to see their github, what are the BD guys/gals showing off?

Re: Now Available: Objects on Rails

blake41 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:04:52 -0000

Ahh, you're totally right. Good to know I'm supposed to be doing my own thinking as I work through this. Let me also say this book is EXCELLENT. Loving this new way of thinking. As a self taught hacker it's so valuable to learn how I SHOULD be doing things as opposed to just hacking my way through and causing myself problems later. Love the blog and the book. Thanks so much.

Re: Now Available: Objects on Rails

blake41 — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:27:55 -0000

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but for lack of a better idea.
Page 47 of the PDF, line 15

@it.pubdate.class.must_equal(DateTime)It appears that the DateTime class is not included by default (ruby 1.9.2p290). I get an error when I add this to my code. I fixed it by requiring the date class.

Re: http://vitter.tumblr.com/post/13975690208

blake41 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:23:13 -0000

I'm lovin the fact that you write a column about things you love. When I think about the things Vitter loves, I'm amazed that you can pare it down into a single list. You are pretty much synonymous with positivity in my book. I'm lovin, how much you're lovin thing.

Re: Instagram Realtime Demo with Node.js, Redis and Web Sockets

blake41 — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:43:27 -0000

I was just playing with this tutorial. I'm new to node, so debugging is pretty difficult as I'm not really familiar with the error trace. I'm getting the following error when I get callbacks from the api

TypeError: Not a string or buffer
at Object.isValidRequest (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/helpers.js:12:10)
at /Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/server.js:30:16
at callbacks (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:272:11)
at param (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:246:11)
at param (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:243:11)
at pass (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:253:5)
at Router._dispatch (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:280:4)
at Object.handle (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:45:10)
at next (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/http.js:203:15)
at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/Volumes/Blake's Hard Drive/Users/blake41/Documents/development/instagram/Realtime-Demo/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/bodyParser.js:120:7)

I can't actually tell where the error is or how to go about debugging. Any help would be great

Re: 17 cultural clashes this European had in America

blake41 — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:51:46 -0000

As an American, I loved this post. Agree with almost everything you said.

Re: Applying Google Prediction API to GymboreeDeals - rywalker.com

blake41 — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:31:18 -0000

I am trying to use the HTTParty gem with the prediction api. I got the get request to check training, but can't get the initial post request to start the training to work. I keep getting a 411 error saying I need to include headers. If you figure it out, I'd love some help!

Re: The Price of Retribution

blake41 — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:25:47 -0000

well said

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Re: Invalid US-ASCII character “\xE2” on line 54 workaround

Re: How to change Jekyll theme to Minimal Mistakes

Re: Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

Re: solnic.eu

Re: The Surprising Key to Getting More of Everything You Ever Wanted

Re: - Thisisgoingtobebig.com - Stop

Re: How I'm Learning Javascript

Re: Adventures in Club Soda Land [Part 1]

Re: Adventures in Club Soda Land [Part 1]

Re: Unschool Yourself!

Re: ﻿﻿Confident Ruby now in Alpha

Re: Lessons Learned Getting Other People to Sell My Ebook

Re: 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Entering the Workforce

Re: Amazing Deal: 100,000 American Miles With Citi Credit Cards

Re: Amazing Deal: 100,000 American Miles With Citi Credit Cards

Re: Codecademy Update

Re: Codecademy Update

Re: Feature Request - LinkedIn Lists

Re: Now Available: Objects on Rails

Re: Now Available: Objects on Rails

Re: http://vitter.tumblr.com/post/13975690208

Re: Instagram Realtime Demo with Node.js, Redis and Web Sockets

Re: 17 cultural clashes this European had in America

Re: Applying Google Prediction API to GymboreeDeals - rywalker.com

Re: The Price of Retribution

Re: Confident Ruby now in Alpha