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I have no clue where I found this but it showed up on my Facebook memories today

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"I think the FCC needs to work for the public, and therefore that this proposal needs to be slowed down and eventually stopped. In the time before the agency votes, anyone who agrees should do something old-fashioned: Make a ruckus.

Reach out to the rest of the FCC now. Tell them they can’t take away internet openness without a fight."

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rosenworcel-fcc-net-neutrality-repeal-20171122-story,amp.html

These are the emails of the 5 people on the FCC roster:

* Ajit Pai - Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov * Michael O'Reilly - Mike.O'Reilly@fcc.gov * Brendan Carr - Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov

* Jessica Rosenworcel - Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov (voted no and is the author of this article) * Mignon Clyburn - Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov (confirmed no vote)

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Happy late Halloween

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THIS IS IMPORTANT AND WILL AFFECT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU

the FCC is trying (again) to put an end to net neutrality. This will mean profit for a lot of big websites and companies like your cable or ISP, and general shittiness for everyone else. It’s not a complicated issue. It’s a shady deal that needs to be stopped.

IF NET NEUTRALITY DIES:

YOUR ISPS AND CABLE COMPANIES WILL DECIDE HOW WELL YOUR INTERNET WORKS.

YOU WILL BE CHARGED MORE FOR USING CERTAIN WEBSITES.

YOU WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CERTAIN WEBSITES.

YOU WILL HAVE SLOW AND SHITTY CONNECTIONS TO CERTAIN WEBSITES.

DO NOT LET THE FCC END NET NEUTRALITY

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A reminder that all the best people were once beginners. If you want to become really good at something, keep practicing even when you don’t see progress immediately. You can’t see it, but you’re improving a little bit every time you practice. Keep going and one day you’ll be amazing at it.

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My Long List of Web Development Study Resources

DAY 399

This is a list of the resources that I’ve found most helpful, and that meaningfully helped advance my understanding of JavaScript, CSS, etc.

I started putting this together after talking to yet another person who had worked through some Free Code Camp lessons only to find themself stuck and confused upon reaching the projects.

I had the exact same experience, and that’s what sent me off six months ago to look for other resources.

Now rather than trying to convey this list verbally every time I want to help someone out, I can just send them here:

Repository on GitHub

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im in a data visualization class and im coding a type of chart thats called a waffle chart and when you’re ready to put it together you use a command called ‘iron’ thats the cutest thing i have heard of in my entire life

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Playing around with portfolio ideas and color palettes today. Probably need to change the purple, but it’s my favorite color. :( Also please excuse the placeholder text. I got bored of Lorem Ipsum.

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me: coding is really fun I love coding it's a good time

also me: has forgotten to place a single semicolon somewhere in the code thus rendering the entire project dead and useless until I can figure out where the fuck I didn't put the damn semicolon

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Mobile ad technique allows stalkers to follow you around a city for less than $1000

This month, University of Washington researchers will present Exploring ADINT: Using Ad Targeting for Surveillance on a Budget — or — How Alice Can Buy Ads to Track Bob at the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society in Dallas; the paper details a novel way that stalkers and other low-level criminals can accomplish state-grade surveillance on the cheap with targeted ad-purchases.

The attack relies on the fact that major “Demand Side Platform” ad brokers like Google Adwords allow you to target an ad to a specific place and a specific person. By placing ads that only get served if a target is on a given block, the attacker can trace the target’s movements in space and time. Ad networks also allow attackers to enumerate the apps installed on the target’s device and retrieve sensitive demographic data.

Variations on the technique allow attackers to count the number of people in a given room who have a gay hookup app – or an app that reminds Muslims about daily prayers and orients them to Mecca.

For $1000 or less, attackers can conduct surveillance of the sort that costs states millions.

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/18/adint.html

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Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Best of luck!

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little doodle for a friend today

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Portraits for my friends over the past few days. Also stay tuned for an all-css image gallery I’ve been working on for friend #1 for an online portfolio she’s debuting at montevallo this weekend!

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I did a little more work on the humane society site today. Added a little slideshow thing that I’ll either use for shelter news or donation promo type stuff. Still a lot of placeholder text, but I think it finally looks about the way I want it!