Robert Benjamin robertbenjamin

What Does the “Death of the Homepage” Really Mean?

In the last year, dozens of publications (such as The Atlantic, Fast Company, and Poynter) have reported on the so-called “Death of the Homepage.” These publications are refering to the steadily declining levels of web traffic to the homepages of a number of large, traditional news outlets such as The New York Times.

They typically focus on the shift to personalized content and the increased importance of social media reference for traffic — but I believe making that the focus is missing the point.

In reality, the phrase "death of the homepage" doesn't purport to mean that homepages no longer matter. Rather, it indicates that in m

Some pros and cons of different ways to spend my time:

Japanese

Pros

Increase my ability to converse with Japanese people.
Increase my ability to read and consume Japanese media. Japan has a fascinating history and a lot of the books, tv shows, and movies made in Japan are totally unique and unlike anything else in the world.
If I move to Japan (or even visit again for a longer period of time), I will be better prepared to improve quickly. This is especially true if I improve reading and texting.
Set myself up for learning more languages down the line. I want to learn Spanish next, especially if I visit or spend time in Mexico or South America, and continuing to learn Japanese to a deeper degree would help me understand how to progress through the intermediate stages of learning a language. My case is a bit unusual since I learned Japanese as a kid then forgot most of it, but Japanese is still one of the hardest languages for English speakers and getting to a high level with it would mean many

Books

Most recent books at the bottom of each respective list. Divided by when they were started and finished.

Read

Finished in 2017

The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

Books

Most recent books at the bottom of each respective list. Divided by when they were started and finished.

Read

Finished in 2017

The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

Harvest Forecast

Connecting Harvest Forecast

Requirements

To set up this Harvest Forecast in Stitch, you need to create a personal access token in the developer tools section of Harvest's website.

Setup

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am robertbenjamin on github.
I am robertbenjamin (https://keybase.io/robertbenjamin) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 45F0 2B54 DA22 3109 64BE A1C3 2931 727E BCC9 20D8

To claim this, I am signing this object:

Prompt

Write a function that accepts an API response formatted as a JSON string. This function should parse, validate, and map the response JSON based on the following specifications.

Validation of the response should be checked using the value of Response.Status. If the Status value is not 'Success', then an error should be thrown. A reason string for the response failure can be found at Response.Reason and should be included with the thrown error's mesasge.

If the response is considered successful, map the result to the following object specification:

report: The base object containing the report
report.personal: A collection of personal information

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <cs50.h>
	#include <math.h>

	long get_number();
	int get_number_length(long number);
	int get_sum_of_digits(long number);
	long get_first_n_digits(long number, int n);

	bool validate_number(long number, long number_length);

	2018-08-22 00:20:22,706Z main - INFO Running tap-harvest-forecast version 0.0.1 and target-stitch version 1.7.4
	2018-08-22 00:20:22,831Z main - INFO Starting tap to discover schemas: tap-env/bin/tap-harvest-forecast --config /tmp/tap_discover_config.json --discover
	2018-08-22 00:20:22,985Z tap - INFO Starting sync
	2018-08-22 00:20:22,985Z tap - INFO GET https://api.forecastapp.com/assignments
	2018-08-22 00:20:24,622Z tap - INFO GET https://api.forecastapp.com/clients
	2018-08-22 00:20:24,717Z tap - INFO GET https://api.forecastapp.com/milestones
	2018-08-22 00:20:24,818Z tap - INFO GET https://api.forecastapp.com/people
	2018-08-22 00:20:24,933Z tap - WARNING Removed 1 paths during transforms:
	2018-08-22 00:20:24,933Z tap - personal_feed_token_id
	2018-08-22 00:20:24,933Z tap - WARNING Removed paths list: ['personal_feed_token_id']