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2019 Wyckoff Triathlon video recap

Jun

23

2019

Here’s my Wyckoff/Franklin lakes Triathlon 2019 video recap. Rather than a race report blog here’s another video recap. In brief, bike course was short 1 mile this year (At the turn around) , my performance was slower, as usual I’m disappointed with my performance on the run. Check out the video below to see how ...

web page hot reload in plain JavaScript + Apache & PHP 4

Apr

29

2019

Hot re-loading, that is automatically updating the web page, when its content changes on the server, into the browser is a convenient developer aid for modern tooling like, webpack, AngularJS, ReactJS, VueJS etc. I created super simple way by just adding one JavaScript include at the bottom of your file and it works with a ...

Javascript Server Sent Events SSE easy tutorial demo of (EventSource) 4

Apr

5

2019

This easy to follow tutorial will show you how to stream server data (sometimes called SSE’s, Server Sent Events) , in real-time to your browser. Using Javascript’s EventSource API interface we can seamlessly update and display on a web page real-time server-sent data all without the complexities of setting up a web socket server. Why ...

my Retirement calculator (javascript) – can you retire now? 2

Apr

3

2019

I decided to create a modern, easy to use and practical on-line retirement calculator, and I open-sourced it too! There are ton’s of these available all over the internet, but none really quite had enough details or the specific details I wanted to make them useful. So I approached this retirement calculator from the FIRE ...

Top 10 incredibly useful Javascript / Jquery code snippets 2

Mar

21

2019

Here’s my list of 10 useful JavaScript & some Jquery code snippets. The code snippets below are pretty useful and find myself reusing them again and again in all sorts of situations. I have created full-page examples of these snippets, go grab them over at my [icon name=”github” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Javascript Github Repo Note: For ...

most Americans will likely retire into poverty 3

Feb

20

2019

Came across an interesting 2¢ video on Youtube basically discussing what you need to do to have a shot at retirement.. needless to say it got me thinking.. and here’s my own 2cents conclusion.. Great video but oohhh 2¢ , way too optimistic with those projections. The short answer is that thanks to wealth inequality , probably ...

Log events via PHP to database with Windows or Linux command line

Feb

13

2019

Here’s a neat example (for Linux and Windows systems) of how to easily capture (log) and store the result of some script or program or really anything, in a central database table. Sure you could use just a log file, but spinning up an instance of MySQL (or SQLite) is trivial, and in the long ...

US taxes : why doesn’t the I.R.S Automate our tax returns?

Feb

6

2019

It’s 2019 and the US government already has all the major information about your annual taxes, so why are we still filing tax forms like its 1950’s? Sadly automated tax filing already exists in many countries, so why not here in the US? simple answer corporate greed.,the tax preparation industry and lobbyists have pushed hard ...

Deepmind’s AlphaStar crushes best StarCraft 2 players

Jan

24

2019

So today’s Deepmind’s StartCraft AI, named AlphaStar neural network AI thoroughly trounced a couple of top StarCraft players. The first set of matches against Dario ” TLO ” Wünsch (StarCraft II player from Germany. TLO is a former Brood War and Supreme Commander player currently playing for Team Liquid.). AlphaStar beat TLO 5 games to ...

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