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Around 2007, I started using a service called ShareBuilder, which was an online broker dealer that offered regular, automated, and dollar-based trades in the stock market. You set the amount, and the equity, and they took care of the rest. I recall signing up for a paid plan through them which came with some perks, ... Read more The post Can a Cup of Coffee a Day Make You Rich? first appeared on…
I have a bit of a problem. I m a digital hoarder. That covers so many things, including email. I have several email accounts. All of them are chalk full of nonsense emails. Mailing lists, advertisements, you name it. You see, I ll come across something that interests me, and then I ll sign up for their mailing ... Read more The post Declare Email Bankruptcy first appeared on Aaron Graves, PhDude .
Or, How I m Rethinking My Linux Installs Splitting the atom was, quite possibly, one of the most daredevil things that mankind has ever attempted. After all, we had our doubts if we d ignite a chain reaction in the atmosphere and destroy the world. None the less, we went for it anyways. In (not quite so) ... Read more The post Splitting The Atom first appeared on Aaron Graves, PhDude .
As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in software development, many programmers are curious about their practical applications. In this article, I ll share my experience using Claude.ai to create a Discord bot, offering insights into the strengths and limitations of AI-assisted coding. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know what Discord is. It’s ... Read more The post I Used…
For some time, I have been quite displeased with my weight. I was doing great, and then Covid hit. The lockdowns started. And I sort of lost motivation to do anything. Now, that’s entirely my fault. I have nobody to blame but myself. That said, since the start of Covid, I found myself slowly gaining ... Read more The post I tracked my food every day for the last three weeks. Did I learn anything?…
I keep a digital journal (it s Day One for reference). I m not the greatest at actually journaling, lately it s more just tracking what I ve done during the day in terms of food, activity, etc. However, one of the things I love about this journal is the on this day feature which shows me past entries ... Read more The post Things to Practice for Greatness first appeared on Aaron Graves, PhDude .
Day 2 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI, this is my solution to checkpoint 1. The rules are to create a constant holding any temperature in Celsius, convert it to Fahrenheit, and then print out both values. I used explicit type definition for the constants, so I didn t have to remember to add a decimal to the Celsius temperature. ... Read more The post Day 2 of 100 Days of SwiftUI first appeared on Aaron…
🎉 I just finished Day 1 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at https://hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/1 via @twostraws The post Day 1 of 100 Days of SwiftUI first appeared on Aaron Graves, PhDude .
The first draft of this article began in February 2022. I’m getting around to posting it in July. What happened? Frankly, perfectionism happened. Perfect is the enemy of good. Perfection is the enemy of done. I want this article to be absolutely perfect. As a consequence of that, it’s sat unfinished, merely an amalgamation of ... Read more The post If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Poorly…
Fair warning, this post may get a bit long, maybe skip to the TL;DR A brief history It was the late 90 s, early 2000 s that I first got a taste for *nix. At that time it came in the form of two distributions of Linux. One of them was a version of Mandrake titled Linux4Win ... Read more The post Beastie and *nix first appeared on Aaron Graves, PhDude .