Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

First things first: What are proxy servers, and why use them? Wikipedia provides the following description and diagram: A proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. https://opensource.com/article/20/4/tor-proxy-raspberry-pi

When dealing with APIs, we often have to think about restricting resources and routes. We can usually do this with the use of sessions. Sessions are stored in memory on the server side. But, we can also switch things around and take another approach. https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/how-to-secure-your-api-with-json-web-tokens-495ec68ba6cd

One creative maker has come up with a way to control a DSLR camera with a smartphone. Luis Salha called in a Raspberry Pi  for his DIY solution, dubbed Black Box, which uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to communicates with a DSLR camera and control almost all of its settings. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-dslr-camera-project-diy

When I got into Data Science and Machine Learning, anything related to math and statistics was something I had visited for the last time around 10 years ago. That’s probably why I found it so hard at first. https://towardsdatascience.com/4-free-maths-courses-to-do-in-quarantine-and-level-up-your-data-science-skills-f815daca56f7

20 min read React, Performance Share on Twitter or LinkedIn This article introduces the concept of the headless CMS, a backend-only content management system that allows developers to create, store, manage and publish the content over an API. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/04/web-app-headless-cms-react/

I have seen a lot of data science interview questions that ask you to “describe [insert data science concept] to me as though I were a five-year-old. https://towardsdatascience.com/data-science-concepts-explained-to-a-five-year-old-ad440c7b3cbd

But what does it mean? Many REST APIs give you a response that’s formatted as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation.) The data comes in pairs of keys and values that are colon-separated. Going back to the example API response above, for the key width, the value would be 353. https://www.twilio.com/blog/cool-apis

Google‘s latest ‘Search for Beginners’ video on YouTube is an introduction on how to use Google My Business. This is actually the last video in the Search for Beginners series, though Google says it will continue to add new content to the Google Webmasters YouTube channel. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-seo-101-updating-your-google-my-business-listing/357256/

It is time. Time to go to that little stack of gifts from well-wishers who have badged you as “techie” or noted that you “play computer games”. Armed with this information, they decided you’d like to receive one of our small and perfectly formed Raspberry Pis. You were thrilled. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ashleys-top-five-projects-for-raspberry-pi-first-timers/

Google published a new Search Console training video all about how to use the index coverage report. Google’s Daniel Waisberg explains how to use Search Console to learn which pages have been crawled and indexed by Google, and how to deal with any problems found during that process. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-explains-how-to-use-the-search-consoles-index-coverage-report/356676/