Blog

• June Tiny Project: New Course Alert (2022-06-28)

  Lessons learned from my June tiny project
• Two Tiny Projects: Game Update Notifier and Backpackplan (2022-05-19)

  On building two tiny projects in the past 4 months
• Programming as Play (2014-01-12)

  What is the difference between programming for fun and programming for work?
• Compensation (2012-01-09)

  Wrestling with capitalism, stagnation, and convention.
• Political Economy (2011-02-20)

  Is the current version of capitalism perfect? Probably not. How could capitalism be improved?
• Ubuntu the Gateway Drug (2011-01-23)

  Switching to Linux for the second time. This time it stuck. I fell in love with the command line.
• Letter to the Ranke Editor (2009-09-01)

  "The Ranke" was an undergraduate newsletter some friends and I started. We passed it on to other students after the first year. They took the newsletter in a very different direction. I was dismayed. And so wrote this letter to the new editors.

• Sweating the Small Stuff (2014-12-02)

  Thoughts about the importance of diving deep into technical details.
• Cubieboard2 (2013-08-14)

  A celebration of the possibilities with the Raspberry Pi like Cubieboard2
• REST (2013-05-15)

  Really trying to understand and explain REST in detail.
• The Dawn of The API Age (2013-04-22)

  APIs are so amazing. They unlock so much potential. We have barely scratched the surface.
• What is the DOM? (2013-04-14)

  Trying to explain the DOM simply. Failing. Trying again.
• Modules (2012-12-31)

  The role of abstractions in programming. How to split chaos into modules?
• The Prophet On Work (2012-07-14)

  Excerpt from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
• A Short Love Poem to the Interwebs (2012-06-14)

  Cats and gifs and My Little Pony.
• Udacity Transfer Student (2012-06-04)

  Transferring schools from a traditional CS program to MOOCs.
  Edit: added "10 years later" update.
• Optimization Problems (2012-04-30)

  How does one optimize one's life? In my case, "optimal" is synonymous with "maximize time spent working on interesting projects."
• A Tale of Two Forwards (2012-02-25)

  How do teams work? What are some common characteristics of good teams?
• New Domain (2011-12-16)

  Switched the blog over to its new domain and playing with settings. And some ruminations on privacy on the internet.
• Charlamagne Rap (2011-12-11)

  Some raps written in the voice of the medieval Charlemagne, King of the Franks.
• Blog Tools (2011-12-01)

  Using vim for writing my blog and Jekyll for "hosting" it.
• Walden (2011-02-02)

  Reading Walden and thinking about individuality and institutions.
• Postmodernism (2011-01-30)

  Postmodern insights rewritten as verifiable and useful statements.
• Conventions of Narrative (2008-04-30)

  Every narrative begins in media res. Perhaps temporally. Perhaps along some other dimension. But all narratives begin in some middle of "things".

• Ambition Maven Probe (2015-12-12)

  The Maven Probe explores Ike.
• Ambition (2015-03-10)

  Second installment of Dawn, a KSP 0.90 career. Time to explore Duna. Our brave Kerbalnauts set foot on a new world for the first time!
• New Dawn (2015-03-09)

  The first post of Dawn, a new KSP 0.90 career mode game with no quicksaves and no reloads. Time to explore the galaxy on a budget!
• Final Fantasy V (2013-06-30)

  Fun screenshots from a Final Fantasy V playthrough
• Final Fantasy VI (2013-05-14)

  Fun screenshots from a Final Fantasy VI playthrough
• Dragon Warrior (2013-01-27)

  Fun screenshots from a Dragon Warrior playthrough
• Ship Design Brainstorm (2013-01-26)

  Visual ship designs to represent different RPG classes: Warrior, Rogue, Wizard etc.