Entries
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Timeline and discovery: the early days The simple timeline of my journey sounds deceptively easy at first: I found ou...
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Author’s note: this is a departure from topics that I usually write about. It’s not related to tech, learning, or any...
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Listen, there isn’t much in this world that’s as luxurious as being able to pee whenever you want to. Imagine floatin...
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Look at this orange: Now look at this orange: It’s the same orange. But, look how much more orange it looks with the ...
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Sometimes I just love a good visualization, and there’s something about radar charts that makes them so approachable....
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Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommen...
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The other day, I was thinking about less-obvious skills that I find helpful for working as a software engineer. Some ...
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You’re given a list of integers and a target number. You can add, subtract, multiply, or divide numbers, and you can ...
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Because I spend my entire workday on the computer, my mouse is very important to me. With my basic optical mouse, I’m...
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There are things that are hard to measure, and there are things that are easy to measure. I think about this duality ...
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Let’s say, purely hypothetically, that you’re in Joshua Tree National Park. Your partner dropped you off in the morni...
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I’m a big fan of trying new things. Part of the process that I’ve come to enjoy is facing and getting over my initial...
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There’s a common pattern I’ve seen when learning something new, where you can effectively move towards a larger goal ...
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Discoverability I spend a lot of my time thinking about UX and design, and I try to consciously think about it in the...
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There’s a trap I used to fall into that has happened more times than I’d like to admit1. The typical scenario would b...
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Every now and then, there will be the type of problem to solve where I know it will require an extra cup of coffee, a...
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WebSocket (WS) connections are pretty neat. I’ve gotten to play around with them before, both for personal and profes...
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I dabble with DNS for work, and I’m frequently checking if CNAMEs are properly configured. CNAMEs are Canonical NAMEs...
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A woodsman was once asked, “What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?” He answered, “I woul...
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I like to window shop houses on Zillow. I really enjoy the recent trend of 3D interior scans, as they help give you a...