DotA 2 to Google Calendar
I’ve been playing a lot of DotA 2 lately! I’ve been learning how to play offlane, and am currently experimenting with Mars. A few months back, I wrote up a simple typescript project that hooks…
Author: darrensapalo
Entropy (Information Theory)
Initially written as a Tweet, but to-be-expounded on this blog post. When the data source produces a low-probability value (i.e., when a low-probability event occurs), the event carries more “information” than when the data source…
Growth
Building stuff as an engineer excites me and draws my passion for so many things, but building myself is my most treasured project. April 11, 2019
node-gyp issues in Windows
I recently encountered issues with node-gyp on my Windows machine, which prevented me from doing any productive typescript/node development. It gave out the following error message: node-gyp is a low level module dependency used by…
Embracing confusion
Been listening to Farnam Street Blog, and I am very pleased with their content. In Embracing Confusion, one of their recent podcasts, they discuss how to embrace confusion, learning behaviors, leadership, and a lot more….
The Mountain: How to achieve difficult goals
Achieving greatness, like reaching the top of a mountain, is a great undertaking that requires discipline and practice on a solid foundation of safety and driven with a desire for growth. This blog post provides…
How to fix cordova build failure for android builds
The other day while I was hacking away on this Ionic-Angular project for work. I was building my android project: But I encountered the following unusual error at the end of the build: … BUILD…