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Had a similar experience. Came in to college with very little programming background and wasn't sure if CS was right for me. Truly enjoyed CS61A and how simply it worked up from pr…

Honestly as someone who used to use a Hackintosh as my daily driver, I can't recommend building one to anyone. Everything from getting drivers to work, to handling updates, is a ma…

http://neverhttps.com is my go-to. Looks like there are plenty of other good suggestions as well :)

I've also found the new 2017 MacBook w/ Touchbar keyboard to be extremely problematic. Many of the time the keys that I press don't work and I have to press them again. Tried compr…

My experience directly booking from hotel websites has been really bad. I usually end up using a service like Booking/Priceline/Kayak/Google, just because the UI is nicer than book…

I'm a pretty big fan of Vox. If you're looking for a stripped down iTunes/Foobar2000-like player for Mac it's a good option. In addition to local media, there's even Soundcloud int…

It seems like all the animations in this article are GIFs, not actual animated SVGs :( I wonder why he chose to export them as GIFs after going through all the work to create SVGs.…

Agreed. In my case at least, Lyft works really well but the Uber app has issues. Phone calls in Uber to drivers have also never gone through, and their support is always unhelpful,…

Having to work a lot across timezones, I created a web app to track time and weather around the world and quickly find a good time to meet across multiple zones: https://www.iwantt…