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Jun 8, 2021

LoFi Hip Hop Beats to Study/Relax to: A UX case study

Recently I’ve been introduced to design thinking and asked to get a handle on design methods and language. This task has required shifting… — Recently I’ve been introduced to design thinking and asked to get a handle on design methods and language. This task has required shifting my perspective from the very engineer-oriented ‘get a stable solution quickly and move on to a more end-user-focused outlook. …

UX

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LoFi Hip Hop Beats to Study/Relax to: A UX case study
LoFi Hip Hop Beats to Study/Relax to: A UX case study

Mar 22, 2021

Reflecting on BoomTown

Tulsa BoomTown is a project to show off the growing tech ecosystem in Tulsa Oklahoma and to highlight some of the great things about our… — Tulsa BoomTown is a project to show off the growing tech ecosystem in Tulsa Oklahoma and to highlight some of the great things about our city. …

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Reflecting on BoomTown
Reflecting on BoomTown

Feb 18, 2021

Recursion — A brief explainer

Recursion can be one of those topics that is either loved or hated. On the love side, recursion can save a ton of time and computational… — Recursion can be one of those topics that is either loved or hated. On the love side, recursion can save a ton of time and computational power. On the hate side, it is often hard to wrap your head around just how to solve a problem with recursion until it…

Programming

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Recursion — A brief explainer
Recursion — A brief explainer

Jan 11, 2021

Visiting Websites

How do we get from URL to the content we want to see? — How do we get from URL to the content we want to see? You type twitter.com in your browser and within a second or two the page loads and boom you’re off exploring the latest trending hashtags and quick blurbs from those you follow. This is a very normal everyday…

Web Development

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Visiting Websites
Visiting Websites

Published in Accel.AI

·Jan 3, 2021

The Internet is for Things

What do you think of when you think of the internet? Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Amazon? Or maybe more mobile-oriented with TikTok… — What do you think of when you think of the internet? Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Amazon? Or maybe more mobile-oriented with TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat? Perhaps even a level deeper, all the communications equipment and data-centers/servers that go into serving our shopping and social media. While major sites and the…

Io T

12 min read

The Internet is for Things
The Internet is for Things

Published in Accel.AI

·Jul 6, 2020

In Algorithms We Trust

A high level intro to some of the basics of machine learning, what it is, what it isn’t, a few methodologies, and some discussion on bias. — Machine Learning, deep neural networks, general artificial intelligence, a series of tubes!!! Oh buzz words, how casually you get thrown around in the valley and beyond. It seems that every system, product, or app is trying to integrate some form of machine learning or artificial intelligence into their tech, or…

Artificial Intelligence

18 min read

In Algorithms We Trust
In Algorithms We Trust

Published in Level Up Coding

·May 28, 2020

Python3: Mutable, Immutable… everything is an object!

The quest for coding knowledge continues and my cohort and I have recently entered a new realm, that of Object Oriented Programming. Over… — The quest for coding knowledge continues and my cohort and I have recently entered a new realm, Object Oriented Programming. Over the last 3 months, I’ve been solely focused on learning C and functional programming, but now the time has come for Python and the idea that everything is an…

Python

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Python3: Mutable, Immutable… everything is an object!
Python3: Mutable, Immutable… everything is an object!

May 5, 2020

Be Dynamic: Shared Libraries in C

This is another entry into my work on C programming and working with the terminal over an IDE. Check out the rest of my articles here… — This is another entry into my work on C programming and working with the terminal over an IDE. Check out the rest of my articles here: https://medium.com/@TMcMac A Quick Recap… So what are libraries? Libraries are a programming method to keep you from having to…

Coding

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Be Dynamic: Shared Libraries in C
Be Dynamic: Shared Libraries in C

Published in Level Up Coding

·Apr 12, 2020

In Your Shell: ls -l

<iframe src=”https://giphy.com/embed/2uI6D6l7sRu4iSausG" width=”480" height=”240" frameBorder=”0" class=”giphy-embed”… — Here we go again, leaving the safety of the GUI and the reassuring click of the mouse (or more likely silent tap of the trackpad) for the deep dark unknown of the terminal. Now if you are old enough to have booted programs from DOS you may feel a bit…

Programming

8 min read

In Your Shell: ls -l
In Your Shell: ls -l

Mar 2, 2020

C Programming and Static Libraries

This is a placeholder. — There is a saying in programming, “Keep your work, DRY.” While we all know that computers and liquids are not a good mix, this type of dry stands for ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself.’ It may seem like a simple enough saying, but when you are building large projects or even just…

Programming

6 min read

C Programming and Static Libraries
C Programming and Static Libraries
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