Programming - Nick Fogle

Code is just language

Code isn't just for math nerds 🤓. If you're good at language, you can be a great programmer. Growing up, I tended to favor language over mathematics. In high school I loaded up on French and Spanish while skipping out on advanced math. I loved computers and technology, but I just

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Bitcoin Satellite Node Using Iridium RockBLOCK Mk2

If cellular, WiFi, and the entire power grid go down, I can still send Bitcoin using the Iridium Satellite Network. Totally portable and no dish necessary. 🛰 🛰 🛰

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Breaking Pokemon Go with a Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Cryptocurrency Node A few weeks ago I bought a Raspberry Pi starter kit on Amazon. I wanted one for a few months and finally found the perfect use case – running a cryptocurrency node. After flashing an SD card with Raspbian, I hooked it up to my network

Learning

When ISIS Hacks your Website

The voice on the other end of the line was panicked. He didn’t know how it happened… only that his organization’s website had been hacked by ISIS. A mix of shock and anger, he urgently pointed me to the URL. I entered the web address

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100 Days of Github: Don't Break the Chain

A while back I stumbled across John Resig’s blog post about writing code everyday. He made several points that resonated with me. I thought I would follow John’s lead and try a more balanced approach to programming. I set a goal to commit to Github every

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Yosemite Beta - First Impressions

In 2000, Apple opened a public beta for OS X 10.0 Kodiak. For those not up to date on their OS X history, Kodiak came before the long line of cats (Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion). Now Apple has opened up a public

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GitHub in C Major

This is an awesome little app that turns your year of GitHub contributions into song. Since I didn’t become active on GitHub until recently, you’ll need to wait a few moments for the player to reach my contributions. I’ve noticed that the graph isn&

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Too Old to Code?

I was recently asked the following on Quora: I’m 25 and wish to learn programming. Am I to old to become successful? The media portrays successful programmers who are worth millions to have started coding from a very young age. Here’s my answer: It’s

Internet of Things

Learning for 2014

Favorite Tech in 2014: – Elementary OS – a beautifully minimalist Ubuntu-based Linux Distro – Reporter App – flexible self tracking with a phenomenal UI – Unix Command Line – crucial as I’ve started learning node.js – Atom.io – recently moved over from Sublime Text and

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Editor Wars: Picking the Right Tool for the Job

As the development application space has undergone a Cambrian explosion of sorts, it’s easy to feel like we are drowning in tools. Since this time last year, I’ve worked within a dizzying number of editing applications. I’ve tried newcomers like Atom.io, LightTable, ShiftEdit,

Bitcoin

I felt foolish the first time I exchanged “real money” for digital money. It was about four years before Bitcoin, and some friends and I were playing a silly little MMORPG called Dofus. After initial skepticism, I’m embarrassed to say we all become hopelessly addicted. This

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The Best Interface Is No Interface.

For years, human computer interaction was limited to a blinking cursor and the cathode glow of the command line interface. Unix Command Line Xerox changed the game with the first graphical user interface, and Apple followed suit with its own black and white GUI for the 1984 Macintosh. Xerox Graphical