August 6th, 2020

Short NKLA

Shorting stocks is stupid. You shouldn’t do it. I couldn’t help myself.

My Tesla Nickel Deal

I will travel to every bank and ask for all their nickels. Then drive them to you one Model 3 load at a time. Yours truly, Jeff Sturgis P.S. Can I work for you as a developer?

Why do I not use a Virtual Machine from my local box?

The first place I worked, iSTORM didn’t use virtual machines. They had a staging server and a production server. We developed on the staging server and used CVS to synchronize code into production. Later on in my career there was a project where part of the consistent environment setup is everybody using the same virtual […]

Cool, Well Done Site

https://energyphile.org/philespace/

Herbert Diess for Tesla?

Tesla will have to have Berlin managers. I wonder if he is a good guy?

July 22nd, 2020

Slim Framework Auth Example

Clean Code Studio has done a great job with the Slim Auth tutorial. Check it out here: Setup Slim Views With Blade Psr-4 Autoloading Controllers Service Providers Pretty Whoops Error Page Env Variables Files Http Kernel Eloquent DB Setup Database Migrations, Seeds, & Factories Slim Console Commands Vue js front-end Tailwind CSS Setup – https://tailwindcss.com/ […]

July 22nd, 2020

Mistake Beauty

Sometimes my mistakes turn out kind of beautiful.

July 12th, 2020

Hooking Price Filters into Product Search Engine

As a user, I want to be able to search “cheap tape” or “expensive tape” and have the outcome bring to to relevant filtered results. Or even “cheap scotch tape” Bear in mind, the “Adhesive Tape” category isn’t that sexy. This would make better use cases for “cheap laptop” or “high-end computer chair” or other […]

July 12th, 2020

The Making of a Slider

This blog is about this slider. First a little back story. This is a price filter. But in order for a price filter to work, you need to have products and prices which were feats in and of themselves. These prices come from competing distributors such that best prices are always calculated from the cheapest […]