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Tools & Services - benjamin alexander smith
https://www.benjaminasmith.com/tools
This page hosts a slowly growing collection of tools and services available for use by the general public (or, more likely, me). Sundial is a telephone number to timezone conversion tool. Give it a telephone number (in any old format) and it’ll tell you the timezone to which the number corresponds. Very handy when you need to call another country or state and you don’t know what the local time is. Sundial is available under the MIT licence and you can fork the source code on Github.
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benjamin alexander smith
https://www.benjaminasmith.com/blog
Hacking the Hacker Lifecycle. Hackers, designers, students, wantrepreneurs and a myriad of other kindred spirits wrote a ton of comments, emails and tweets. In response to my article a few weeks ago describing the hacker lifecycle. It took me by surprise. Until then, I’d thought that perhaps I was the only nerd stuck in this recurring loop. The answer came from one of those time-honoured and well-respected sources of wisdom that we too often overlook: a chat with my mum. Like father, like son. This took ...
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The Hacker Lifecycle - benjamin alexander smith
https://www.benjaminasmith.com/blog/2013/04/12/continuing-education
In general I’m a very motivated person. But during my free time, my motivation is cyclical – it waxes and wanes over the course of 9-12 months. I’ve started to think of this as the hacker lifecycle. When I look at my habits with hindsight, it is clear to me that I’ve spent the last five years in a repeating patten of continuing education. Focussed efforts towards a life goal. Side projects to practice new skills. Phase 1: Focussed efforts towards a life goal. If I’m honest, during these projects I ...