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3 days ago

How to Interview Your Favorite Creators

In this article, I outline my entire process of reaching out to interesting creators, and I also include my template for sending them an email. — It’s 2018. Fantasy High — Dimension 20’s first season — had just premiered, and I utterly and completely fell in love. I’ve been following the crew of the show ever since the days of CollegeHumor sketches, and Fantasy High shined a different kind of light on them. I’ve never thought…

Content

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How to Interview Your Favorite Creators
How to Interview Your Favorite Creators

Jul 8

Achievement Unlocked: 2000 Subscribers on YouTube

Happy Friday to 834 geeks! Welcome back to another Geek Letter! It’s another sunny day and I’m back at my favorite spot drinking my favorite shake and writing to my favorite people — YOU! As you might have understood from the title, today’s a happy day. I have reached 2000…

Gaming

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Achievement Unlocked: 2000 Subscribers on YouTube
Achievement Unlocked: 2000 Subscribers on YouTube

Jul 1

I’m On The Precipice of Another YouTube Milestone

Happy Friday to 833 geeks! How are you doing? The week is over, and I’m writing to you on a sunny Friday, sitting in a food court, drinking a yogurt shake with bananas and strawberries. I love coming here as it gives me a therapeutic feeling of investing in my…

Gaming

4 min read

I’m On The Precipice of Another YouTube Milestone
I’m On The Precipice of Another YouTube Milestone

Jun 23

Lifeline: Beside You In Time Mobile Game Review

The newest game in the Lifeline series is already here, and it’s incredible. Here’s my review! — The first time I played a Lifeline game was in 2015. I had just started working as a QA Engineer in a small startup company that built video games for clients. The funny thing was that everybody loved it. This little game was on every one of my friends’ lips…

Mobile

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Lifeline: Beside You In Time Mobile Game Review
Lifeline: Beside You In Time Mobile Game Review

Apr 8

Finding a Home in ScaleHeart

Short story #1 in The Dragon Imperium. — The first thing Emerson Brooke noticed when he got off the train with his bag was a giant black tower in the distance. The second thing he noticed was the hurry everyone seemed to be in this place: Scaleheart, the capital of the Dragon Imperium. “Excuse me?” Emerson called out…

Fiction

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Finding a Home in ScaleHeart
Finding a Home in ScaleHeart

Mar 22

New to Writing on Medium? Here’s Your Most Important Mindset Tip

Don’t develop expectations — develop connections. — Like any other business out there, Medium is trying to make a profit. And sometimes that means making decisions that we the people don’t see the logic behind — but there’s always a logic. …

Medium

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New to Writing on Medium? Here’s Your Most Important Mindset Tip
New to Writing on Medium? Here’s Your Most Important Mindset Tip

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·Mar 13

How to Add a Comments Plugin to Your Ghost Blog?

In this guide, I’ll show you how to install Hyvor Talk on your Ghost Blog, but you can replace that with any comment plugin you like. — Until Ghost implements native comments like WordPress that ship out of the box, you’ll need to add them manually. Some themes arrive with the code for a specific comments plugin already included, and you need to add your API Key or whatever means to make it unique to your site.

Software Engineering

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How to Add a Comments Plugin to Your Ghost Blog?
How to Add a Comments Plugin to Your Ghost Blog?

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·Mar 11

How to Deploy a Theme From GitHub to Your Ghost Blog (With Secrets)

This article shows you how to use a public fork from Casper without exposing your private information to deploy your version of Casper to your blog with a comments plugin. — Before I discovered GitHub Actions, I created many zip files on my computer, including my comment plugins and such. Now that I’m using GitHub actions, I have forked Casper — Ghost’s default theme and made the changes there, too.

Software Development

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How to Deploy a Theme From GitHub to Your Ghost Blog (With Secrets)
How to Deploy a Theme From GitHub to Your Ghost Blog (With Secrets)

Published in Oren Codes

·Mar 3

It’s Time to Acknowledge My Membership in The Cool Kids Club

Welcome to Oren Codes — my blog about programming and all things software engineering. — This month, I’m marking 4.5 years of actively developing software. By mid-2018, I managed to complete an actual Computer Science degree, and start developing backends and microservices in Python. That’s a lot of fun! My problem was that something in my mind always wanted to make a complete separation between…

Programming

3 min read

It’s Time to Acknowledge My Membership in The Cool Kids Club
It’s Time to Acknowledge My Membership in The Cool Kids Club

Mar 2

How to Fix Your Post Previews on Twitter After You’ve Published Them

This guide does not encourage you to delete your tweets! — So, let’s say you published a post and didn’t correctly set up your featured image for Twitter. But you only discover it after you’ve published the post and instead of seeing your beautiful picture, you see a dull preview with only your title and subtitle. How do you fix this…

Writing

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How to Fix Your Post Previews on Twitter After You’ve Published Them
How to Fix Your Post Previews on Twitter After You’ve Published Them
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Oren Cohen

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