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Dematerializer - Blogging for developers - Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

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Dematerializer - Blogging for developers. Dematerializer was my submission to Static Showdown. A 48hr hackathon with a twist; the app must be static (i.e. no custom back-end). At first it seemed like a huge restriction, however after exploring services like Firebase. A websockets enabled database-as-a-service) I realized that almost anything was possible. What makes Dematerializer different than other blogging platforms is that posts are written entirely in Markdown. I ended up using AngularJS. Finally, ...

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Jekyll - Blogging for Developers - Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

https://zolmeister.com/2014/08/jekyll-blogging-for-developers.html

Jekyll - Blogging for Developers. You may have noticed that this blog moved from Blogger. To a Ghost themed. Hosted on GitHub pages. Its been a long time coming, and I couldnt be more happy with how things turned out. Is a static site generator, which allows you to create websites with markdown easily. All of my posts. Can thus be written in markdown, with code highlighting and version control thanks to GitHub hosting. Clone it, and run. To write your posts in, or just your editors markdown preview.

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10x: Docker at Clay.io - Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

https://zolmeister.com/2014/12/10x-docker-at-clay-io.html

10x: Docker at Clay.io. Our deploy process is fun. Seriously. Because we use Docker. Docker is a containerization tool that allows for easy application isolation and deployment. The basic idea is that Docker runs your application in a virtualized isolated environment, similar to a virtual machine, but without the overhead. You start with a base image, and then describe how to create a container using a Dockerfile. May not follow best practices). Our deploy process looks like this:. The file is self-expla...

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10x: Service Discovery at Clay.io - Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

https://zolmeister.com/2015/02/10x-service-discovery-at-clay-io.html

10x: Service Discovery at Clay.io. Can be one of the most iterable and available software configurations for building almost any product. There are many challenges that come with these systems, probably the biggest of which is service discovery. This is how your services will communicate with each other. For our service discovery, we turn again to Docker. If you havent read how we do deploys: Docker at Clay.io. Synapse ( https:/ github.com/claydotio/synapse. Here, we use Ansible. Docker run - restart alw...

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Zorium v1.0.0 (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ - Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

https://zolmeister.com/2015/05/zorium.html

Zorium v1.0.0 . The CoffeeScript Web Framework. Is the web framework we use at Clay.io. Today it has finally reached version v1.0.0 . This has been one of the most challenging projects Ive worked on, with many great lessons learned. What follows is how Zorium came to be what it is today, and an explanation of design decisions in the framework. For the full documentation: https:/ zorium.org. Special thanks to Matt Esch. Without whom Zorium would not exist. Because every framework should start with code:.

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Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

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Dematerializer - Blogging for developers. Dropping out of High School to Join a Startup in San Francisco. N Queens Problem - Backtracking. The N Queens problem. Is a simple yet effective way of assessing a developers ability to use recursion. For that reason, it may show up during technical interviews, so I wrote a quick little example using the chessboard.js. Promiz Micro - Promises in 228 bytes (min gzip). Zoggle - Rewritten Using AngularJS. Read my guest post on Mozilla Hacks. Laquo; Newer Posts.

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N Queens Problem - Backtracking - Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

https://zolmeister.com/2014/01/n-queens-problem-backtracking.html

N Queens Problem - Backtracking. The N Queens problem. Is a simple yet effective way of assessing a developers ability to use recursion. For that reason, it may show up during technical interviews, so I wrote a quick little example using the chessboard.js. Link: http:/ queens.zolmeister.com/. Source: https:/ github.com/Zolmeister/queens. Here is a simple solution in JavaScript:.

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Prism - Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

https://zolmeister.com/2014/08/prism-game.html

Clone, using colors instead of numbers. It was created by Austin. And myself in about a day, mostly for the purposes of getting to know each other better (this was before I joined Clay.io. As well as to show investors that we could produce content quickly. We have since changed course, and are focusing on the marketplace instead of being a first-party app developer, but it was still a valuable experience. My very first commit. Here is the logic, commented for clarity:. Directions to move values. To work ...

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CTO/Co-Founder Clay.io - Zolmeister - by Zoli Kahan

https://zolmeister.com/2014/07/cto-cofounder-clay-io.html

I have joined Clay.io. As CTO/Co-Founder, after we raised a $500k seed round, and just 6 months after dropping out of high school. And moving to San Francisco to join Nomic. I have grown so much, and learned such a tremendous amount during my time at Nomic, and am sorry to have to leave such a supportive and skillful team. Now, 600 commits and 50,000 lines of code later, I must bid them farewell. I am joining Austin. How I got here. To Clay.io, and written a guest post about it on Mozilla Hacks. Austin n...