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I'm a software developer, and these are my thoughts.

Logic Gates

14 Oct 2015 | | | mooc, comp-sci

Nand to Tetris

I started going through one of the online courses this week called From Nand to Tetris. It’s turning out to be a great way to learn how to compose rudimentary gates into a functional system. So far I’ve only gotten through the first week, but the basic building blocks are interesting. I’m really interested in the topics that will be covered later on dealing with building an ALU, and even later on an assembler. You can check out the course on coursera or check the full project at the dedicated website nand2tetris.

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A New Start

09 Oct 2015 | | | blog

Where to Begin

A couple days ago I thought I should look into doing a blog site. I’ve been thinking it would be a great way to show off the things that I’ve been working on, and give me a concrete place to write about the things I’m learning. The first thing that I looked for was a CMS of some sort that was ‘git-backed’ but this didn’t really turn up anything useful. There are a few frameworks out there to accomplish this, but I realized I just needed a simple way to statically host a blog. I found Jekyll which ended up being able to fulfill exactly the niche that I am looking for.

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