Rocksmith 2014 Review • February 04, 2021
Rocksmith 2014 Review One of my 2021 New Years resolutions is to play 300 hours of guitar. I have been spending time in Rocksmith, a friend had seen me online, and inquired about my opinion of Rocksmith. Overall I think Rocksmith 2014 is a useful tool for guitar practice but falls short in many areas and cannot be your sole learning tool. How I am learning guitar I took up playing guitar. I am…
January 2019 Book Reviews • February 05, 2019
Finished The Tattoo History Source Book by Steve Gilbert The Tattoo History Source Book is a collection of primary sources, mostly from the 1700-1900s, documenting the tattoo culture of the indigenous people of the Pacific islands. Each chapter is summarized and given context by Steve Gilbert. I found this book very informative. It was full of great illustrations and photos of different examples…
My Goals and Plans for 2019 • January 30, 2019
Questions? Comments? Twitter discussion here: https://twitter.com/h0nkyc41/status/1090751831133679616 I have a method for learning new things. I've always been a heavy reader and that is how I learn. I realize there are better ways to learn but I feel that just picking a book and completing the exercises within helps me avoid decision fatigue and makes sure I am learning from sources that have at…
My 2018 in Review - Video Games • December 16, 2018
Greetings friends, thanks for stopping by! This is just some random thoughts about some of the video games I played in 2018. GOTY: Hollow Knight I like Metroidvanias. The art and world building in this game was stunning. It was challenging, but not too challenging. Dropping the map pin, trying to navigate by map, and then getting VERY LOST was fun. Phenomenal. My one complaint is that I would…
My 2018 in Review - Books • December 16, 2018
Greetings friends! This is just a quick review of the books I read in 2018. Probably missing a few. Code The Pragmatic Bookshelf have been ON FIRE with their Elixir books. The books they release are consistently the BEST resource for learning about that particular topic in Elixir. The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas This year I sat down and worked through "The Pragmatic…
Unit testing KSonnet components • December 09, 2018
Why test KSonnet components? Whenever we develop code, we want to write tests to make it easy to refactor components, add new modules, and remove old ones. It is important that we verify that we are able to give the same input, and get the same output. We do not want to break more than we fix! One of the main advantages of the Ksonnet and JSonnet language is that it allows us to develop an API and…
Elixir: Using a with statement to control a pipeline • December 04, 2018
I was watching an elixirconf talk the other day about pipelines and how to handle long pipelines and I learned a really useful coding technique! I typed up this module to demonstrate: The output looks like this: