A Case Study In Robotics With Node.js Laying The Foundation of A Complete Robotics System With Open Source Tools For Node.js I have always been passionate about space exploration technology and astronomy. A couple of dream companies for me to have a job at would be NASA JPL and SpaceX. I collect vintage books about space exploration technology from before we ever landed on the moon. I just eat the…
The Make America Tweet Again Project
The Make America Tweet Again Program Notes on the Twitter Ecosystem, Making A Tutorial, and Implementation Recently I decided to make a Twitter Bot in the style of Donald Trump. I think I learned a lot in the process about programming and the Social Media platform itself. If you are interested in recreating the project yourself, you can find the source code for Make America Tweet Again on Github, or…
Make America Tweet Again Part 3
Part 3 | Automating Our Program A Tutorial on Scheduling Twitter Processes with Advanced Python Scheduler. This is a continuation of Part 2 of Make America Tweet Again. In Part 2 we created a Markov Chain style system of generating random Trump-like Tweets. Source code can be found on my GitHub Page for MakeAmericaTweetAgain. What Your Project Folder Should Look Like env/: This is the directory for our Virtual Environment Files requirements.txt:…
Make America Tweet Again Part 2
Part 2 | Data Analysis and Text Generation A Tutorial on Text Analysis, Twitter Mining, Automated Twitter Bots. This is a continuation of Part 1 of Make America Tweet Again. In Part 1 we created a system to access the Twitter API to collect tweets. Source code can be found on my GitHub Page for MakeAmericaTweetAgain. What Your Project Folder Should Look Like env/: This is the directory for our Virtual Environment…
Make America Tweet Again Part 1
Part 1 | Getting Our Data A Tutorial on Text Analysis, Twitter Mining, Automated Twitter Bots. In the spirit of election season, I figured a good tutorial to demonstrate would be a Donald Trump style Twitter Bot. To do this we’ll touch on twitter mining, creating a system to generate random Trump-like sentences, and create an automated process to post these sentences to Twitter. No matter what your political beliefs may…
The Egg Problem
The Egg Problem An Interview Question Examined. We have a building defined in terms of height in floors, or ‘H’. This building has a special floor ‘N’ where 0 <= N <= H. We also have two eggs. These eggs have a special property, where if they are dropped out the window of any floor, they will break if the floor is is greater than or equal to N. Once an…
The New JoeDevelops
This site was created to document, display, and share artifacts of my intellectual adventure into computing and software development. The original JoeDevelops was a from-scratch, full-stack Django Web App. I painstakingly configured everything from host names, server security, URL formats, custom templates, bootstrap template integration and more. It involved a lot of cursing to myself, banging my head against the wall, and ultimately learning more than I care to describe…