Especially for Hacker School students, but really for anyone: If you’re looking for a way to discretely measure your progress through Hacker School, check out the following resources: Programmer Competency Matrix This one especially is a good way to measure yourself. Programmer Competency Matrix rebooted, which is the same thing but extended. Signs you’re a…

Joe and I just spent an hour or so debugging my Node.js application, a simple multiplayer tag game. The problem was that while a player was moving, they disappeared from every other player’s view. Not the greatest for playability. So we dove in to the code, and figured out that on each loop, the x…

For users of Blaggregator: If you use wordpress for your blog, you can get a custom feed of only posts which match a tag by constructing the following URL: http://example.com/?tag=tagname&feed=rss2 So for example, I’m going to tag all of the posts that I want on Blaggregator with “blaggregator” and then give Blaggregator the feed url…