Bennett Notes

Today I learned how to make effective small talk with new people and the pareto principle

Even though people tell me not to live for the weekend, I'm starting to find that my best life occurs during the Saturday and Sunday that I have off. It's a process that I'm trying to break and improve upon.

Have you ever needed to cast music from your PC to your Android device? Let's walk though a quick tutorial that will show you have to use your Android as a bluetooth speaker.

If you are developing a Chrome extension with message passing, then you might have received the following error: Unchecked runtime.lastError: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.

Let's take a look at how you can run android apps in Chrome browser. Keep in mind, this is more of a proof of concept and not something you should heavily rely on.

One of the hardest things about coding and working on side projects is that you will often have nothing to show for all the time and effort you put into it.

I have hit the point where I can't do anything for fun anymore. Every hobby is not an attempt to make some extra money or turn it into profit.

Let's take a look at a Kafka Nodejs example with Producers and Consumers. Using the library kafka-node, it is very easy write a kafka application in javascript.

Here's a quick tutorial on how to setup Apache Kafka and Zookeeper in docker.

Here is how I spend my weekends, flying a drone with javascript and NodeJS. Using the DJI Tello, it's very easy to do.