How to add an existing GIT repository to github.

Most of the times, it makes more sense to start working on something that slowly transforms into the beginning of a project that deserves to be on github. This post is about creating a local repository and putting it on github. 1. First we must convert the main local folder into a git repository. For […]

How to make a Mean Green Juice. #Juicing #Paleo

Green juices are a great complement to the Paleo Diet. Some of us are not that fond of vegetables and while still training our palate to enjoy vegetables, these green juices are loaded with lots of micronutrients that will nourish, clean, and protect your cells. With a lot of ice, they’re not that bad in […]

How much electricity does the Facebook app consume everyday by making phones vibrate with push notifications?

My silly little goal is to convince Facebook to pre-configure its mobile apps so they don’t make phones vibrate by default and push silent notifications to mobile users. Help me make an estimate, we need to know on average how many milliwatts the average phone will spend per notification, and an estimate of how many […]

How to make fried sweet plantains “tajadas” #paleo

can’t ssh to ec2 ubuntu instance, /etc/fstab breaks bootup due to missing ebs volume [SOLVED]

So the /etc/fstab file on your root volume looked like this LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 defaults 0 0 /dev/xvdf /mnt/backups auto defaults,comment=cloudconfig 0 2 by mistake you deleted the ebs volume that you had mounted on /mnt/backups (or whatever folder) and you restarted your ubuntu instance not knowing that if the /etc/fstab would break it would […]

How I finally started losing weight

On January 1st 2013, like so many people all over the world I took that pledge of getting back to my healthy weight. Ever since I’ve not missed a single week of weight lifting, running and swimming. In the process I’ve tried different diets like controlling portion sizes, diets where you eat only during certain […]

The Paleo Argument against 100% vegetarian diets

Here’s a quote from the book The Paleo Diet “The notion that human beings were meant to be vegetarians runs contrary to every shred of evolutionary evidence from the fossil and anthropological record. We owe a huge debt to lean meat. In fact, scientific evidence overwhelmingly suggests that if our ancient ancestors had eaten a […]

[SOLVED] Java7 SMTP Issue (Caused by: sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11Exception)

So you had your little program that would use AWS to send emails, and all of a sudden after a Java 7 update you get a stack trace like this: [java] javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, port: 465; nested exception is: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Server key at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1962) at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:654) at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:295) at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176) […]

Obama Warholized by #CODE on Williamsburg Bridge

Obama Warholized by #CODE (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)