Posts by Kirk Kaiser
An Iterative Approach to Building an API – Part 2: Adding ElasticSearch
So, yesterday we built the very first iteration of our Python and Tornado API. We fleshed out all the data with YAML files, and got proper HTTP response codes for calls. Today, we’ll take our existing data store, and migrate…
An Iterative Approach to Building and Deploying an API
In startup land, one of the most common admonitions is to build the API first. This way, other developers can access your data, there’s one codebase to worry about, and a consistent behavior everywhere. Part One – Building the API…
Pay For the Coding Interview
How much money are you expecting out of the coders you interview? I recently got asked to do an 8 hour project as a coding demonstration for a potential job. Against my better judgement, I took the time out to…
7 Subtle Reasons You Should Be Meditating Daily
Meditation is simply space to play with the functioning and processes of your mind. To learn to override the embedded processes, and direct your mind completely. We just sit still and focus our attention to breathing, and let an awareness…
The Human Transcendence Economy
We used to live in a world where propaganda worked. We all shared access to the same information, and that information came to us from above. Those who were at the top designed a worldview, and through advertising pushed an…
I thought we were hackers.
What happened to us? A decade ago, we had this manifesto, how we were the creative ones who could bend and melt reality, with our mind alone. That we could take any unsolvable problem, and build a thousand creative solutions.…
Murder Your Shortcuts
I never really understood cooking properly until I learned about what the French call “mise en place”. It means literally, “putting in place”. It’s the process of gathering everything for cooking before the actual cooking happens. With mise en place,…
Building The Human Brain API
By mass the human mind is overwhelmingly habits, lower emotional reactions, instructs and unconscious regulation. The part of our brain responsible for our logic, and what we associate as our “self” is small. Evolutionarily speaking, it’s very new, and as such…
Building a Mobile Intelligent Journaling System in Python
Six months ago, I had a crisis. At my day job, the amount of data I had to keep track of and manage was exploding. I felt like I was constantly putting out technical fires. As lead web developer at…
Hacking My Health, Building My Startup
Six months ago, I got an idea. I was burdened by the growing complexity at my day job as lead web developer, and felt like there had to be a better way. I read a statistic that the amount of information doubles…