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What’s Overleaf?

Recently I found myself needing to update my resume with a new project. No big deal, right? It’s a little harder when your resume template as of the last 9 years has been in Microsoft Word and you’re now primarily running linux. What to do? Surely I don’t want to have to reboot into Windows every time and it was overdue for a redesign anyway. Enter recommendations for Overleaf. 🙂 Overleaf is an online editor with tons of templates for LaTeX. Even after picking out some templates to try though, it wasn’t working quite how I wanted. LaTeX was new to me and working in some pretty finicky templates was set aside for later.

Last week a friend of mine asked us to look over her resume and we decided it was great content but it lacked style. I recreated it with a template we liked that’d nicely handle having 3 degrees. Of course I couldn’t stop then and had to do mine next. By the time I was done, I had enough of a grasp on latex to be able to alter the template code to fit my needs…and design ideas. ? I finally have something I really love and am not just tolerating until I figure out something better.

Go ahead, try it out yourself. 😀 Try different templates until you find one that fits!

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So long, iPhone

I decided a little over a year ago that I’d finally found the Android phone I’d been waiting for when the Pixel came out but I was trying to be frugal. It’s hard to beat the continued edge discount after the phone has been paid off. 😀 However, after 3 years and 1 month my time with iPhone 6 is done. I caved. I don’t need that stress in my life haha.

I’d say I’ll miss you, but so far the only thing I’ve missed are appropriately scaled slackmojis. Suddenly everything just integrates.

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Quotes from my day

Development Workflow

  1. Make it work.
  2. Make it pretty.
  3. Make it fast.

Project Management Triangle

Fast delivery, high quality, low cost: you can only have two.

The business intelligence version: fast loading, large quantities, real time data.

* I did not come up with these, only paraphrasing. ?

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Team Leadership

Much to my consternation I agreed to participate in a hackathon this weekend. Why give up my last free weekend before school? I’m not really sure, but I’d gotten a bug about learning some new things and trying them out. Since I’d been flying through some udemy courses I figured I’d force myself to apply some of that. Several times at points of extreme frustration I thought, “I’d so much rather be watching netflix or making myself a fun hoodie.” I don’t like waiting to do things, certainly not for several hours under tight deadlines for reasons that should be under the team’s control. But I digress. My objective here is not to talk about my hackathon experience. Instead, I’ll talk about something that is crucial for a great team project as a reflection on all of my group projects for work and school.

At the core of everything, having a good leader for a project can make or break your success.

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Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes

Serves 6

Ingredients

1 cup reduced fat sour cream
1 1/2 cups reduced sodium chicken broth
1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1 1/2 c instant rice, uncooked
20 oz fully cooked diced chicken breast
4 1/2 oz deli thin sliced smoked ham, cut into pieces
6 oz sliced aged Swiss cheese, cut into pieces
1 cup frozen peas (optional)
1 cup corn flakes, crushed
1/2 c grated parmesan cheese
2 Tbsp butter, melted

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Whisk together sour cream, chicken broth, Dijon mustard, and black pepper in a large bowl until smooth. Add rice, chicken, ham, Swiss cheese, and frozen peas; stir to combine.
Pour mixture into a 13×9 inch baking dish and spread evenly.
Mix together crushed corn flakes, Parmesan cheese and melted butter in a small bowl. Sprinkle evenly over top of the casserole.
Bake uncovered on center oven rack for 25 minutes until heated through and topping is golden brown.

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How do I efficiently calculate primes?

* Disclaimer: I have tested none of this code yet. Please do share if you find a syntactic error here. 🙂 I’m trying to practice my ability to write code without an editor and without testing every little step as I build it.

This question came up about a week and a half ago and it wasn’t directly asked of me, but I was intrigued enough to finally dig into it. This is something that’s come up in various projects for school and once in a hackerrank challenge for me. My brain likes to scream “There has to be a better way!” at me as I hack my way on through to get things done because I just don’t have the time to dig into it.

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Holy pictures, Batman!

Today I’m having flashbacks to when I tried designing this site with the pictures of mine I had on hand now and let me tell you, that was not a stellar experience. I have some great nature pics but nothing was composed quite how I needed it to be at the time. I’ve currently accepted that there aren’t fun pictures separating the sections but someday I might decide that I care again and when I do, what happens? I wasn’t sure until today when I found Unsplash. It’s an amazing collection of free pictures these gracious photographers have shared with us.

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