{"id":30556,"date":"2018-01-14T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=30556"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:35:10","slug":"home-buildingcryptocurrency-videosbest-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/home-buildingcryptocurrency-videosbest-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Home building\/Cryptocurrency videos\/Best of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Advice on building a home<\/strong><br \/>\nOver many decades, homesteader Lloyd Kahn has built his three beautiful homes by hand, and is the author and publisher of books about building personal homes. Lloyd lives in a fire-prone part of California. He compiled a useful list of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/advice-to-californians-building-new.html\" target=\"_blank\">hints for people rebuilding homes<\/a>\u00a0after fires. The tips are so helpful they would be useful to anyone building a home anywhere. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free Princeton video series on cryptocurrencies<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/7m0gu3\/sixty_free_lectures_from_princeton_on_bitcoin_and\/?st=jbvfqjyn&amp;sh=0c200ce7\" target=\"_blank\">The Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course<\/a>\u00a0is a 13 hour video series from Princeton. After a very brief introductory video, they get right down to business with a video about hash functions that\u2019s easy to understand. You can also download a companion textbook. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good podcasts<\/strong><br \/>\nYou\u2019ve finished all the episodes of This American Life and Cool Tools. What podcasts should you listen to next? This is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bellocollective.com\/100-outstanding-pieces-of-audio-for-2017-c328b3cae530\" target=\"_blank\">curated list of great podcast episodes<\/a>\u00a0airing in 2017, mostly from podcasts you haven\u2019t heard of, but should. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best stories of 2017<\/strong><br \/>\nThis chart of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2017.chartbeat.com\/indecent\" target=\"_blank\">100 most engaging stories of last year<\/a>\u00a0is worth adding to your read list. The top story,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2017\/06\/lolas-story\/524490\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Family\u2019s Slave<\/a>, was a powerful personal account of being raised by a Filipina woman who the family kept as a slave for 56 years. It stayed with me for months. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Online typing tutor<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter decades of being a hunt-and-peck typist, I\u2019m finally forcing myself to learn touch typing. After trying a bunch of different typing websites, I\u2019ve settled on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.how-to-type.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">How To Type<\/a>\u00a0as my favorite. It\u2019s not fancy, but the drills have helped me to become more accurate. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep track of whose glass is whose<\/strong><br \/>\nMy mother-in-law had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2D6ah6M\" target=\"_blank\">these metallic markers<\/a>\u00a0on hand during the holidays to keep track of whose glass is whose. We had a full house of more than 10 people staying overnight, so this was perfect for keeping track of our wine and water glasses, and coffee mugs. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 77<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30558,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30556\/revisions\/30558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}