This is the breakdown of how I built Find a Sub, a Recommendation Engine for Reddit. It might be helpful while you read the blog post if you clone the repository with the code. The reason why I built this is because I think that the default ways to discover Subreddits is not optimal. Basically there are two ways (that I can think of) to find new subreddits. Going to subreddits such as Bestof of Subreddit of the day to find new subreddits. Read more

Life I learned that in Ubuntu, to restart Unity and get back all the widgets (a bug that happens from time to time removes some widgets from your panel), you can restart unity by doing: killall unity-panel-service I learned that in Ubuntu, in those cases where launchpad repositories cannot be resolved when doing an update, the reason might be because of missing settings when setting the repositories. Read more

Life I learned that almost every hospital-born child in the US appears on her first picture wrapped in the same blanket Work I learned that in Go, the way to format a Time object into the format you want is by using Monday, January 2nd 2006 at 3:04pm as a template. I wonder how they came up with that specific date.

Work I learned that in Unix, you can use & to run a command in the background. A lightweight alternative to screen/tmux. Then you can use fg to bring that process to the foreground. Life I learned that one of the first investors in Wizards of The Coast was a Janitor!. Spanish He aprendido que el Tato, personaje usado en muchas expresiones en Espanha, fue un torero del siglo XIX famoso por su tenacidad. Read more

Work I learned about httpbin , a very simple yet useful api to test other apis, provides useful endpoints for very simple tasks For example, to find an aws public ip you can use httpbin like: curl http://httpbin.org/ip I learned about docopt a very nice and intuitive module to add arguments to a command line program in python. Life I learned that the reason there are almost no female sushi chefs is because of the traditional belief that women’s menstruation, perfume and makeup can “affect the delicate and sophisticated form of Japanese cooking”. Read more