A summary of Recent Experiments in Psychology — 1938 Edition Is rat killing in cats “instinctive”? The word “instinct” possesses so many unscientific connotations that it has fallen into disrepute among most psychologists. …

Writing this because it was annoying to setup. — First, we need to start up Localstack on our computer. Luckily all you need is docker and you can get it running. Copy the following config and paste it into docker-compose.yml file. version: "3" services: localstack: image: localstack/localstack container_name: “localstack” network_mode: bridge ports: — "4566:4566" volumes: — "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"

Carl O Sauer’s writings on Spain’s exploration of the New World — All the information provided in this article was derived from the writings of Carl O Sauer. The historical geography of the Spanish in California is rich, these are only the accounts of the first commissioned surveys of California coast and the maps they produced. Carl O Sauer Famously known for his contributions to…

A natural law governing domains of creative human production. — Background I recently stumbled upon a lecture given by psychology professor at the University of Toronto, Dr. J Peterson, where he details socio-political developments of the Soviet Union after the first World War. He begins by explaining how the“peasant class” in the Soviet Union had become tremendously successful in agricultural production…

Rocks — The Refuge of the Mircoworld. — An often dismissed component in plant health is the comparative distribution of rocks to plants in a given landscape. The sight beneath a rock is quite predictable to those who have ever been outside. The soil is moist and dark with a possible biological makeup of various arthropods such as…

A quick demonstration on how you can migrate your current reducers to be pure and immutable. — Quick Redux Recap Redux at its core is really just a one way messaging subscription system, but with this we can create amazing scalable state management. In this messaging system we can subscribe (AKA “observe” and “listen”) to events, such as calling a function to make a request to an API. …

We’re going to walk through one of the small nuances of requiring vs reading a file directly during a running NodeJS process. — NOTE: This is not an in depth comparison of require and fs.readFile TLDR If want to reference the latest version of a file throughout your running NodeJS process use the fs package, otherwise if you want your data to remain constant or don’t anticipate the file changing use require.

Below are benchmarks and the accompanying function for the various ways to iterate in JavaScript. Some people may argue that benchmarking without real application data is pointless but I still find it useful to understand runtime implications in these artificial setups. Each was tested by iterating 10 million times. TLDR…

TLDR; Chrome is pushing an update to its browser to enforce SameSite and Secure values on all third party cookies. Systems that rely on third party cookies without these values will not be set in browser nor sent with any following requests. Below is a local network audit of New…