Category: Random

Are you organizing an event for the LA tech/startup community? The best way to get the word out about your event is partnering with people/organizations that have a reach to your community, ideally those with large and engaged mailing lists. That being said, you should get your event listed on all the tech/startup focused event […]

This thing blew my mind so much I had to just post it. Makes you realize how long we’ve been on this planet, how baller the Romans were, and how new the United States is.

Trying to decide if you should spend time making a process you repeatedly do more efficient? Think about how often you do the task and how much time you can shave off if you make it more efficient. Then, look inside the table to see how long you’re allowed to work on the initial workload […]

I just built a log-in, sign-up functionality from scratch using PHP/MySQL this past week. There’s so much logic built into something that’s seemingly so simple! – What to do if people sign-up with a non-valid email address or password. – Checking to see if a new sign-up isn’t using an email address already registered. – […]

I’m about to sit in on a Coloft Academy class called Elasticsearch, An Introduction. As it’s title suggests, it’s a class that introduces you to Elasticsearch, a “flexible and powerful open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud.” Long story short, I’m pretty lost already. Other students of this class include the […]

Early Morning: 15 minutes of yoga, 20 minute bike ride, made & ate breakfast (omelet & banana)! I was looking at my new year’s resolutions yesterday and realized that some simple activities would tackle multiple resolutions. For example, “stress less about small things” and “maintain an awesome body” (read: work out more) can be knocked out […]

I know this is kind of jumping ahead because I didn’t document anything from the first week of the 5-week Santa Monica Youth Tech Program that I’m teaching this summer. But as part of today’s exercise, we had all the students type non-stop for 5 minutes. This was what I wrote up. We had an awesome […]

Rentmonitor – Simple rent collection tool. A Techstars company. Cozy – A more serious rent management tool. Has raised $1.5m. RentPost – Another rent management tool that also includes work order management. Splitwise – Great tool for splitting bills.

It seems today that many people don’t trust the government, and for a good reason I guess. However, I’d like to propose that we do trust the government. Why? Because by not trusting the government and telling others not to, you’re making matters worse. The government, while it has many flaws, is set up so […]

There are few defining moments in your life; I had one in college. It was in the Spring of 2007, I was the elected Social Activities Committee Chair at CMC, and was thinking back at party themes from my freshman year. I remembered the Pirate vs Ninja party vividly. It was at night, and there […]