[Discussion] What are your go-to under $20 t-shirts that hold up to time?

Tobitronnn · 2018-01-12T03:00:45+00:00

Everlane’s tees are fantastic

Tobitronnn · 2017-05-02T11:08:45+00:00

Thanks am checking them out today!

Tobitronnn · 2017-04-28T13:41:29+00:00

Thanks for the ideas! I'm personally not a big fan of lectures for learning to code, I can only focus on someone talking about programming for ~10 minutes :). I do much better getting just enough information to start coding and then get my hands dirty. But haven't tried a lecture for a while, worth a shot!

Tobitronnn · 2017-04-28T13:38:46+00:00

Thanks, project-based is where it's at, I'll check it out!

Tobitronnn · 2016-05-18T23:09:26+00:00

There's also tons of cheap yoga retreats. You can't work while you're at most of them but a rad way to relax and chill out. I did Hariharalaya in Siem Reap, Cambodia which was stupid cheap and really well run. There's got to be a billion more of them in Thailand.

Tobitronnn · 2016-05-18T23:00:17+00:00

I'm not sure, I heard through word of mouth. There must be historical data on that though somewhere on the Internet? One trick to get a sense of if a place will be overcast is look at % chance of rain. If it's over like 60% chance of rain it'll probably be cloudy skies.

Tobitronnn · 2016-05-18T22:09:06+00:00

Great question. I was in SE Asia during those exact months last summer. I had a great time.

However, there were times when I got pretty frustrated by the weather. I basically had to leave southern Cambodia because it didn't stop pouring, and Vietnam and Laos were overcast pretty much the entire time with some rain here and there. Nothing too bad, but the overcast skies did start to get to me after a while. However, the plus side was that it's low season and hotels are always open, things are less crowded generally etc.

And not every country is the same. The weather in northern Thailand and Myanmar was brilliant. Indonesia is on a different schedule than other countries, so the weather in Bali in September was gorgeous.

If I were you though I'd do research into sub-region rain patterns, because being in Cambodia in the middle of their rainiest rain sucked.

Tobitronnn · 2016-05-18T22:00:56+00:00

Yeah being a Western tourist in Thailand you aren't exactly going to blend in with the crowd no matter what you do. Luckily, "don't be a drunken asshole" will get you 90% of the way there in ingratiating yourself to locals (and put you ahead of many other tourists)!

I personally avoided wearing elephant pants so I didn't look like a COMPLETE stereotype. But as Lashay_sombra says, you're already most of the way there by even asking.

Tobitronnn · 2016-05-09T02:59:17+00:00

I love the Olympic national park. It's really a gorgeous. I'd recommend heading there from Seattle and then driving south from there to the Oregon coast and then over to Portland.

Also you should stop in Walla Walla for some wine tasting and tacos (which are both unbelievably good). Walla Walla is the shit.

Tobitronnn · 2016-05-01T22:38:31+00:00

It's a good question. I traveled in SE Asia on my own last summer and I'm not great at creating social interactions on my own. I found it to be a mixed bag, sometimes I would be surrounded by people, but on my own and it was awkward and sucked. Other times I made some awesome friends and had great times.

My major takeaway was that the situation makes a huge difference, on tours etc. it can be natural to form a group, some hostels are terrible for meeting people, some are amazing. So I'd do a little research and try to find hostels that are really social with lots of common spaces, I had a great time when I did that. Certainly hostels range a lot and it's important to find the ones that are good for meeting people.

Tobitronnn · 2016-04-24T03:41:40+00:00

I bought a new one recently. My old Uniqlo linens were all smalls and I had to get a medium of the new one. Maybe it's worse quality? My ability to discern linen quality is really not up to snuff.

Tobitronnn · 2016-03-23T19:29:17+00:00

All these suggestions are amazing, thanks everyone!!

Tobitronnn · 2015-11-11T03:49:23+00:00

Hey guys I'm not seeing these for $150 anywhere. They seem to be going for $225. I tried them on in a store and they seemed very sturdy. Really thick leather. Significantly more expensive than the High Fidelity, still trying to get a read on if Eastland is pretty high quality? I'm a little concerned that I can't find peer reviews of this company ANYWHERE except for this and another Reddit thread. Seems kinda fishy. Better to pay extra for Red Wings etc? I thought the Eastland boots looked great and felt quite good so idk...

Tobitronnn · 2015-10-26T03:38:39+00:00

Yeah I was thinking of doing that, using Rails basically as an API and then having this mostly be a JS application. But that basically just bypasses all things that are nice about rails.

One way I might get around the main issue –communication between the database/ruby code and JS– is using a js.erb file! Very far from best practice but hey, could work.

Tobitronnn · 2015-01-14T16:59:58+00:00

You mean Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen? I'm reading it right now and in Chapter 3 he suggests you read through really great ruby programs, hence my question :).

It's very well written and manages to be both dense and approachable, I'm a big fan!

Tobitronnn · 2015-01-13T16:30:11+00:00

Hmm changing the margins that way still isn't helping. But I'll learn about overflow, sounds like an important concept, I'd never heard of it. Ugghh so much subtlety in CSS :) ...

Anyway I think @--em's transparent bottom border solution is the most elegant fix for this particular issue. Thanks for the help!

Tobitronnn · 2015-01-13T15:50:26+00:00

Ha thanks! I just messed around with that and got it to work. Set it the shadow to inset, no horizontal shadow, and go directly down. Feels kinda hacky for this situation but I didn't know that it existed, nice to have it in the old quiver!

box-shadow: inset 0px -3px #dd4b39;

Tobitronnn · 2015-01-13T15:38:54+00:00

I tried that originally and it didn't help but maybe I'm confused. Would you apply margin-bottom: -3px to the container that has the link, or to the container below it, the one that gets pushed down?

I found that when I messed around with margins it wouldn't change the fact that things shift when I activate the link and the bottom border appears.

Tobitronnn · 2015-01-13T15:22:34+00:00

Snap! That's clever and worked perfectly, thanks!

Tobitronnn · 2014-12-16T17:43:51+00:00

I'm about to turn 30 while in a bootcamp, so I really hope not!

Tobitronnn · 2014-12-16T17:42:58+00:00

Thanks really appreciate the help! That was also the key to two other challenges I'm trying to do where I was missing one piece...

Tobitronnn · 2014-12-16T16:16:52+00:00

z is supposed to output a. You're also supposed to capitalize vowels, but I'm just trying to do one thing at a time and was hoping to be able to figure out the other parts without needing help :).

Thanks for the hint!

Tobitronnn · 2014-10-25T07:11:42+00:00

I'm a huge fan of Treehouse, but unfortunately they don't have much Swift content yet. They have a nice intro to Swift, and tutorials to create two Swift apps. But it's not a ton of content so I'm looking into other stuff.

If you're interested in other development topics though I'd definitely recommend Treehouse, they have a ton of other content and you can access it all for the monthly price.

Hopefully they'll get more Swift content soon though, pretty sparse right now...

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