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Potluck Lunch with PK

Two weeks ago, I invited my foodie friend PK, the creator of meme.menu to join me for a lunch where we were the preparers--and sharers--of all the food consumed. It was a regular: 

Now, as anyone whose been to Lincoln Road before knows, there is little to no indoor public space to speak of. So, outdoor dining in the summer months is dicey at best. However, PK being a persuasive individual was able to persuade the manager at the Regal Cinemas on Lincoln Road to let us dine in their nicely air conditioned cafe area. 

This is basically what it was like. 

Except our food looked more like this: 

I like this idea of getting together for Potluck lunches and I think I am going to continue to do it in the future. 

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My First Pull Request

There comes a time in every social coder's life when he or she must venture into the wide world of pull requests. For me, that time was last week. 

What, you ask, is a pull request? In the realm of collaborative coding made popular by the likes of GitHub, a pull request is a request for the owner or owners of an open source project to incorporate changes you've made into their project.

As a relatively junior coder, making such a request can be intimidating.

The project I made my request for was the Code for Miami Miami-Dade Budget Visualizations, which is live here. Since one of my interests is data visualization, I thought working on the project would be a cool way to learn about the Chart.js library the project makes use of. 

So, I went ahead and did this, 

Which ended up looking like this: 

Not too shabby for my first time using the Chart.js library.

But, don't take my word for it:

Well sane is not exactly 'not too shabby', but I'll take it. Thanks Chis Scott!

And, in the end, my request was merged. Which made me feel like this: