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Building Anagramatweest, a Twitter bot that finds and retweets anagrams

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Building Anagramatweest, a Twitter bot that finds and retweets anagrams. Dec 30, 2016. In this post, I share a small Node.js app I wrote to retweet anagrams to @anagrammatweest. Each pair of tweets is an anagram. They’re also posted to Tumblr. A little over a year ago, I wrote a small app in Scala to find anagrams in the Twitter firehose. That code is here. And I wrote a blog post about the process of finding a way to score anagram matches here. This was inspired by an existing twitter bot, anagramatron.

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Indeed.com tech job trends from 7/2015 to 7/2016

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Indeed.com tech job trends from 7/2015 to 7/2016. Aug 1, 2016. A few years ago out of curiosity I started recording counts of the number of jobs on indeed.com every week for specific tech keywords in specific metropolitan areas. The original motivation for doing this was to spot software development job trends relevant to my interests to try to gauge the relative popularity or popularity trends of specific technologies for cities across the U.S. Are the cities and here. This isn’t accurate since some of ...

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Configurable polymorphic fluent interfaces in C#

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Configurable polymorphic fluent interfaces in C#. Jul 20, 2016. I recently needed to write a C# wrapper for a quirky REST API. One of the quirks is that most methods take a parameter called select that is a comma-separated list of additional sub-parameters representing data you want to retrieve with the call. For example, let’s say you’re retrieving a list of enrollments for a school. If you pass. Course,course.history(range,2016-05-01T00:00:00Z,2016-06-01T00:00:00Z)". Data,history(on,2016-06-01T00:00:00...

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Finding anagrams on Twitter

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Finding anagrams on Twitter. Nov 25, 2015. A while ago I stumbled across anagramatron. A Twitter bot that finds anagrams from a sample of the Twitter firehose and retweets them. I read in the description of the project that anagrams are manually curated. I thought one possible way to score anagram matches would be to calculate the edit distance. I thought of edit distance because I have previously had great success using it at my day job when implementing fuzzy-search algorithms for Medicaid data. Fo...

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Generate anchors to link to every heading and paragraph in a Jekyll blog post

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Generate anchors to link to every heading and paragraph in a Jekyll blog post. Sep 13, 2016. In this post you can learn how to add clickable links to every header and paragraph in a Jekyll blog post! I recently wanted to link someone to a specific section of a blog post I had written. However, at the time I had no anchor elements to link to that specific section (which would act like this underlined text. Of my blog posts? This blog is currently a Jekyll. Site Each post is written in markdown. Post-conte...

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Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript

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Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript. Nov 11, 2015. I recently proposed using Conway’s Game of Life as an exercise for candidates to complete at home and then come in to talk about their code. Since our stack is .NET and we mostly use C# I wrote one possible model solution. In C# using one of the simplest ways to render cells that I could think of: writing characters to the console. That’s it. I’m drawing 1x1 rectangles at the coordinates (x, y). Here’s one frame of the end result:. Statically define all ...

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Generating commit messages using GitHub and Markov Chains

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Generating commit messages using GitHub and Markov Chains. Jul 27, 2016. However for a long time my fake commits had a very boring commit message: a single period. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to generate realistic commit messages, maybe from a markov chain generator seeded with real commit messages scraped from GitHub? A while ago I attended an Apache Spark workshop where we did something similar but with Enron e-mails instead of GitHub commit messages. I wrote a markov chain text generator in C#.

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Hacking your GitHub contribution graph to look more consistently productive than you actually are

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Hacking your GitHub contribution graph to look more consistently productive than you actually are. Dec 19, 2016. Jerry Seinfeld, the comedian, has said the way to become a better comic is to write better jokes. To write better jokes, he said, write jokes every day. One technique he used to pressure himself to write jokes every day was to put on the wall a calendar with the entire year on it. For each day that he wrote jokes, he would mark that day with a big red X. Don’t break the chain. One of git’s use...

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RavenDB - The good, the bad, and the ugly

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RavenDB - The good, the bad, and the ugly. Nov 18, 2015. At my day job my team practices polyglot persistence by using a combination of RavenDB and SQL Server. We use RavenDB for our transactional database and for reports replicate data from RavenDB to SQL Server. The Good: Storing and retrieving objects is very easy. This story is even more compelling if your data is unstructured, semi-structured, or dynamic. Imagine a type that would be a bear to map, such as one with multiple collections, with sub...