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Using GitHub WebHook to create a self-updating Node.js web app that automatically pulls code and restarts when you push to the repository.

Key takeaways from "The Power of Habit": identify key procedures, build automatic routines with cue-routine-reward cycles, and cultivate willpower for lasting change.

Beamer Writer update: online compiling via WriteLaTeX integration and improved error messages for faster LaTeX presentation workflow.

A simple PHP script to send automatic email notifications when someone pushes to your GitHub project, using GitHub's post-receive web hooks with JSON payload parsing.

Technical notes on KinectFusion SDK: understanding WorldToCamera and WorldToVolume matrices, aligning RGB with depth images, and extracting higher-quality depth maps via raycasting the TSDF volume.

It all begins from the blog post 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency. I put it in our mailing list and here are some insightful disucssion (with authors' permission).

A California road trip with Hertz 24/7: good prices and new cars, but the management system is buggy—reservations cancel randomly, charges appear incorrectly, and you must remember to manually end your trip.

Compares C#/C++ and MATLAB for research work, arguing MATLAB is better suited for rapid prototyping while compiled languages excel at building production systems.

Career insights: presentation skills matter as much as technical work, impact beats paper count, mindfulness boosts productivity, and reuse code with unit tests to debug less.

Quick tutorial on configuring exim and email packages in Cygwin to send emails from Windows command line via SMTP server without authentication.