I'm Brian P. Hogan, a software developer, teacher, author, editor, and musician
living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I develop web applications like
Codecaster using HTML5, Elixir, JavaScript, and Ruby.
I also coach and mentor aspiring developers. I am the author of several books,
including Small, Sharp Software Tools, tmux 2 - Productive Mouse-Free
Development, and Exercises For
Programmers.
I am always looking for interesting opportunities to help people succeed.
From the blog...
One of my favorite practice exercises from my book Exercises for Programmers is the “Who's In Space?” problem:
Did you know you can find out exactly who’s in space right now? The Open Notify API provides that information. Visit http://api.open-notify.org/astros.json to see not only how many people are currently in space but also their names and which spacecraft they’re on.
Create a program that pulls in this data and displays the information from this API in a tabular format.
I was working on my Hugo book and I was working through some modifications to some of the companion files. I wanted to view several files to ensure they had the content they needed. I do all my writing and other work in the Vim text editor, and I know I can open multiple files by specifying them on the command line, like this:
$ vim file1.md file2.md I wanted to open up all the files in my project called about.
I've been working on a new tune for a few months, and today I finally had the time to finish it off. It's got a nice mix of crunchy guitar and classic 303 sounds mixed in with more heavy drums and synths. Happy with how this turned out.
Give a listen!
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