My tango blog used to run on the Ghost publishing platform. It's fast and comfortable, but since the rest of this website is built statically, I wanted move away from Ghost. Here is what I learned in the process.

The mBot by Makeblock is a cutesy blue robot for teaching kids programming. It has laid on my shelf for a few years before I got to it. I am no longer a kid but I can surely learn new things with it, can I?

The map/reduce pattern is an elegant tool that makes me use of for-loops far less - and that's a good thing.

Functional programming can be intimidating. You can get started using some of its principles before going all the way in.

MongoDB does not speak SQL. That's fine - it speaks Javascript. You can quickly export interesting views on your data with just a bit of code.