Many religions hold that gods are omnipresent. That is, god exists everywhere, at all times. In mathematics, how do you comprehend something that extends throughout time? You Fourier transform it. Maybe god lives in the frequency domain. Any action of theirs affect every moment in our world. On the other…

Motivation History is fascinating, but it’s difficult to visualize what the world looked like thousands of years ago. Many aspects contributed to this difficulty. Partially it’s because ancient people had a different sense of aesthetics. Before the 1400s, painters rarely had perspective in mind, making proportions of things look rather odd…

You know what “unit test”, “integration test”, and “system test” mean. But what about “end-to-end tests”, “regression tests”, and “acceptance tests”? This post disambiguates them for you. Speak of scopes Let’s start with a one-paragraph refresher about unit tests, integration tests, and system tests: First, there are unit tests. They test the smallest…

Struggling to arrange your 50+ wiki pages into a manageable number of sections? The 5W1H — who, what, where, when, why, and how — might be a better way to organize your articles. Why organize by 5W1H?

Public speaking can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. By taking cues from some of the most iconic villains in popular culture, you can learn to communicate with confidence and authority. From Doctor Octopus’ attention-grabbing stunts to Bane’s rousing speeches, there is much to be learned…

Because gradle init isn't enough. Motivation. Nearly all tutorials online will tell you to run gradle init , which will detect Maven's pom.xml and convert some basic configurations to Gradle's build.gradle. That's sweet, but you almost always need more than that. …

I have a huge Google doc: Unwieldy! I want to make it as approachable as documentation sites like this:

2 million Asians reside in the SF Bay Area. In the tech industry, more than half workers are Asian. I bet there’s one on your team. Have you ever been in a Monday 1:1 with an Asian colleague, who — upon your clichéd prompt of “so how was your weekend”…

Need to write a README file, but not sure what to say? If this is a frustration that bothers you frequently, you might consider beefing your document up with a diagram. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, as the cliche goes. This article collects tools that generates…