So you want to be a tech lead? Have you ever started a project from scratch? This post will help you learn how to get started so that you and your team can have a successful project under your direction. And even better, have a happy boss that gives you the space you need to work.… Read More Tech Lead Basics: 1 Creating the Codebase
For the chicken fajitas, I was looking to try a new recipe and I stumbled upon this recipe on AllRecipes.com. The looked very similar to my soy-lime marinade for steak so I went with it. Glad I did because many people really liked the chicken. Full recipe below Chicken Fajitas Recipe Marinade 3lbs chicken breast salt… Read More Honey-Lime Marinaded Chicken Fajitas
I’ve freelanced a bit on Upwork strictly for data scraping and data science. And I’ve hired freelancers with the site too. I answered this question on Quora and wanted to share it here for everyone too. You may be overwhelmed by your competition and lose faith but I hope I can offer some encouraging insight.… Read More How to get your first project on Upwork
This recipe is how to prepare charred fajita vegetables in the classic sauce you might taste at a mexican restaurant. First we char the vegetables in order to get a nice burnt flavor and remove the skins because they can have too much “bite”. Then do a marinade and sautee Vegetables Ingredients: 2 assorted bell… Read More Charred Fajita Vegetables
This recipe is adapted from Modernist Cuisine at Home’s Buffalo Hot Sauce recipe. Yields 250 grams (~9 fl oz). Habenero Hot Sauce and Mash Ingredients: 200 g canola oil 80 g white onion thinly sliced 80g garlic thinly sliced (really shoot for 160g total between the garlic and onion, oftentimes I get lazy and will… Read More Habanero Hot Sauce and Mash Recipe
This week I’ll be moving out of my apartment to move to the west loop of Chicago. To celebrate I had some friends over for some drinks and fajitas. I’m considering starting a taco push cart in Chicago and wanted to use this night as a test. For the menu I had Menu: Honey-Lime Marinaded… Read More How to Prepare a Fajita Dinner Party
I was exploring the DataTables library for jQuery and was a bit shocked that it did not support dynamic columns for a fixed-width array of json objects natively. You would think that the top search result for jquery table library could support json data directly as the view but datatables only supports hard-coding the columns found in… Read More DataTables with Dynamic Columns
I’ve always wondered whether drafting first mattered in my fantasy football draft. My leagues are always drafted with the snake draft. For a 10-team league the draft order goes 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-10-9-8… The 10th team has the last draft position but does get their two draft picks right next to each other so the question becomes is drafting 10th… Read More Is draft position an advantage in fantasy football?
I’m sure this won’t come as a surprise to anyone but the NFL draft grades have been historically off-base. I looked at Bucky Brooks NFL draft grades from 2013-2015 and how that compared to team performance. I found Bucky Brooks is very wrong. Model Summary — iPython notebook I first parsed through all of Bucky’s articles on NFL.com… Read More Grading the NFL Draft Graders — Bucky Brooks
Executive summary of current TV options to aid you in your next purchase. I. Overview of Current TV Options i. LED vs OLED — “Plasma is dead” [1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372085,00.asp OLED, short for organic light-emitting diode, is an LED with a built-in backlight. OLED works best for TV and darker images rather than white backgrounds that computers… Read More OLED vs LED – What you need to know
