TL:DR https://stratocumulus.cloud Top level domains (TLD) Every so often, I encounter a new top level domain (TLD). TLDs are at the topmost level of domains. A few of the most common are .com, .org, .net and if you are a trendy startup, .io. You can retrieve a full list of TLDs on wikipedia . Below are some of my favourite TLDs with various subdomains. .ninja coding.ninja sneaky.ninja food.ninja .

TL:DR pip install clickupy / https://github.com/dang3r/clickupy Over the past few years, I have used many different project management tools. JIRA has been a consistent one, and the tool with the most name recognition. Trello is a very lightweight alternative, and the the one I personally use. Redbooth is another big player and I’ve used it heavily (especially while working there!). Wrike and Asana are a few others I’ve encountered every now and then.

Overview I came back from the gym last week and a few of my friend’s made the following claim: Following the first link of a Wikipedia article always leads to philosophy It was a very strong claim, but one that can be verified easily. Solution My previous scraping projects and linksearchers have been exclusively in Python. I love Python, but I have been exposed to Ruby over the past months and decided this project would be a good fit.

Overview When I moved to California after graduation, it became difficult to easily communicate with my girlfriend in Canada because of telecom issues. The crux of the problem was the following: My phone plan has unlimited data and unlimited texting to US, Canada phone numbers. My girlfriend’s phone plan had limited data (thank you Canadian telecoms) and only had unlimited texting in Canada. I wanted to make communication easier between us, so I decided to make my own SMS forwarding service using Twilio.

Overview I recently had a problem where I wanted to verify that a website: did not link to a given website on a blacklist did not return non 2XX status codes for a given route Although there are many utilities you can probably piece together to solve this problem, I decided to make my own utility Cerca (which is Catalan for search). Problem Given a website URL, search the website for all external and internal links.