Notes on Zach Nielsen's Blog

This is a super useful utility to help pick a good color setup.

Marketing through interviews - one thing if launching a podcast would be to have a bunch of interviews baked in, so that people repost them and use them to market.

I’m thinking about further improvements to the site - a series function would be great.

Note to myself: open the whole folder of a project in VSCode to get the virtual environment right, not just the Python file.

Really excited to try Panic’s Nova.

Instagram Reels?

GPT-3 making up authors and books is crazy fascinating.

“For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome.”

Listening to episode 380 of ATP, and Marco makes the distinction of not trying to maximize value, but trying to maximize functionality in a value range.

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” — John Muir

“Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I’ve been using Dropbox paper recently and it’s… quite good?

Animal crossing - the saving grace of #coronamergency2k20

My podcast consumption has taken a sharp decline with the advent of Covid-19 like I assume how many others have.

Giving spotify another shot, and I’m shocked with how much better it is than Apple Music.

I came across a weird bug that took me a few minutes to solve.

“There’s a ton you can get in life if you’re willing to submit yourself to the mortifying horror of asking for it.”

I am looking forward to rooting on my UNLV rebels today.

Really enjoying When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H.

Loved this post from Kottke.

Something I’ve been looking at is the difference between 538’s Carmelo projections and the Vegas lines.

The demand for data science truly has never been higher.

Public Transportation has to be the easiest way to move large amount of people.

🏈 By planning on the Saints to win, I forgot about the bugaboo factor, in that the Vikings have them completely bugaboo’d from both the Minnesota Miracle to the Pass Interference disaster.

There’s a certain irony that on my last day in Boston, the following things happened: It was foggy and poured all day I stepped in a puddle My flight got delayed Beantown, ye shall be missed.

Please engrave pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None) on my tombstone because I forget about it every time I start a new project but it is so useful!

“Polish comes from the cities, wisdom comes from the desert.”

Nothing says Halloween like leftover ribs.

“The best way to overcome it [the fear of death]—so at least it seems to me—is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

Finally watching Battlestar Galactica and it’s basically Outer Space West Wing 📺

Great game tonight by the Las Vegas Aces!

“Too much intention creates tension.” – Moojiji

📽 movie choice of the day: Isn’t It Romantic.

The future is forgetting to download your music off the cloud and being forced to listen to Loch Lomand covers on repeat

“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perpetual relationship that is based on trust.” — Thomas Bernard

Trying Visual Studio Code instead of Sublime Text - and I’m really liking it!

There is money to be made in increasing the speed of implementation

Constant reminder: you’re probably not documenting your code enough.

Nothing like nerd Christmas!!

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed.

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” — Dr.

“We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge.

Nothing beats live sports.

Zach’s rules of remote meetings: the fancier the software, the more likely it is to not work.

Really smart thought in this piece by Horace Dediu.

Urbanization: The terrifying thought that if you live in a city, traffic is only going to get worse.

Currently vacationing in DC and they have Electric Scooters and I want to try one immediately.

Could not be more excited that Reeder has been updated.

Contiguous data ranges in excel with no subtotal nonsense is absolutely key.

At what age should you stop dressing your kids the same?