Woodworking, Software, and Life
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Restart
I have not been consistently posting daily in January. I missed 3 posts for the first week of February which is the worst week so far. Let’s start this week on a positive note!
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The Value of Consolidation
Inspired by Cam Anderson from Blacktail Studio talking about his customer being super happy when his epoxy table course came out because the customer no longer needs to consolidate techniques scattered in his videos. I start to think about the value of consolidation. Sometimes, I pieced together code from different places to implement a feature.…
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Happy Chinese New Year
2022 is the year of tiger. Happy New Year, everyone!
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Sorting an Array by Two Fields in Swift
Assume we have the following Person model struct. How could we sort an array of person [Person] in ascending order first by the firstName then by the lastName?
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Subscribed YouTube Channels after the Purge
I purged my YouTube channel subscriptions on 1/17/2022. It was great! My YouTube homepage recommendation changed quite a bit which helped me to discover some new channels. Channels that I Went Back Jon Peters – Longview Woodworking Paul Sellers Matthew Cremona New Channels that I found Physics Girl Simone Giertz Uncle Jason’s Workshop
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Things I Learned Playing Tetris
Not making a decision is also a decision. It is not helpful to dwell on past mistakes. Try your best if you have been dealing with awkward blocks. Never give up! You never know what is going to happen to the other person.
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Address Issues Along the Way
In Shop Talk Live(STL) eposide 241, Vic Tesolin talked about addressing the issues he sees in the shop while working. It doesn’t interrupt the workflow as much and it makes him feel good after that issue is resolved. I can relate to that. I found that I am always going to be bothered by the…
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Why I Enjoy Shopping at Costco
When I first came to the U.S, I was frustrated shopping at the grocery store. There are too many choices in every category! We have got 20 different flavors of chips, some are made out of corn while others are made out of potato dust. Which one would I like? It was a different experience…
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Don’t Compete with the Internet
The Internet never sleeps, but you do. Don’t try to compete with the Internet. Unplug, and rest up!
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YouTube Bankruptcy
I purged all of my YouTube channel subscriptions last Friday. Why? YouTube keeps recommending the same content. It is easy to waste a lot of time watching new videos from channels I subscribed. I wanted a fresh start. Any channel that I love, I will remember and eventually subscribe again. Give it a try, it…
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Tingzhi(Vince) Li 