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Freestyle: A Labor of Love, Expressed in Rhymes

Julianna and I have this fun little tradition: whenever we’re not rushing off to work, whether it’s a weekend or a random day off, I brew…

Sep 27, 2024

Freestyle: A Labor of Love, Expressed in Rhymes

Sep 27, 2024

You might not be using json.Decoder correctly in golang

TL;DR: prevailing “secondary source” wisdom (ie: blog posts) about json.Decoder don't demonstrate the proper way to use it.

Jan 25, 2021

You might not be using json.Decoder correctly in golang

Jan 25, 2021

Building flexible Make targets

TL;DR: use $(eval ARGS=${ARGS} [some additional arg]) within a make target to build custom argument sequences for commands wrapped by make…

Jan 3, 2021

Jan 3, 2021

Integrating Code Climate w/go pkgs

TL; DR: When integrating golang code coverage with Code Climate, be sure to set the --prefix arg (set it to your pkg github prefix, ie…

Jan 1, 2021

Jan 1, 2021

Safely Construct Elasticsearch Queries w/Golang

Or, why I built an ES query DSL pkg in golang.

Dec 29, 2020

Safely Construct Elasticsearch Queries w/Golang

Dec 29, 2020

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Math Musings

Shortcut for cubing numbers ending in — 5

In a previous article, we reasoned about a method for somewhat quickly computing the squares of numbers.

Oct 15, 2017

Oct 15, 2017

Published in
Math Musings

Shortcut for squaring numbers

In a previous article, we explored a trick for squaring numbers that end in — 5 really quickly.

Oct 15, 2017

Oct 15, 2017

Published in
Math Musings

Why does (25)(25) = 2(2+1)(100)+25? An explanation.

So here’s a neat trick. What’s a quick way to square numbers that end in — 5 in your head?

Oct 15, 2017

Oct 15, 2017

A technique for saving content from a data:text/html, URI

Update: I’ve improved on my technique! Find the updated blog post here.

May 13, 2016

A technique for saving content from a data:text/html, URI

May 13, 2016

Introducing Bonfire.

A new way to do Free Code Camp problems with visual programming.

May 11, 2016

Introducing Bonfire.

May 11, 2016

Taq Karim

Taq Karim

Engineering @Oracle , Faculty @GA + @BaruchCollege . Prior: @PlaceExchange , @sharehoney , @RubensteinTech , @joinpursuit , @TheKingsCollege

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