Don't tolerate -isms in your interviews
My organization typically interviews in pairs: two interviewers, one candidate. This is beneficial for several reason...
My organization typically interviews in pairs: two interviewers, one candidate. This is beneficial for several reason...
I wanted to use my "normal" programming tools with Processing, which led me down this rabbit hole. TLDR; Processing is a combination of a Java library, a Java pre-processor, and an IDE. You can use Processing like any other Java library if you want, instead of being locked into the IDE. Here are some of the subtle gotchas that I found.
Implementation versus exploration. Who is expected to do what. Being glue.
Accessibility and ability are both complex spectrums. Many venues that claim to be āADA accessibleā arenāt actually a...
A rough formula for tshirt-sizing estimates for software projects.
Generating street layouts with Clojure.
Some of the strategies I use for managing my disability in the workplace.
What do you do when you want to add a feature to a codebase that nobody maintains?
Silly, terrible, no-good very-bad jigsaw puzzles. Featuring Voronoi diagrams, KD-trees, and Clojure.
What I read, what I'd recommend, and some patterns.
Iām going to be participating in the Recurse Center one week mini-batch in January. Recurse Center describes itself a...
Notes on recovery. Dec 2017.
Doodling about the Scala underscore operator, feat. my awful handwriting
Do industry software engineers read research papers? I asked a bunch of people.
Spoiler alert, it was on purpose.
Iām a trained software engineer, but I am decidedly an amateur when it comes to working with physical hardware and bu...
Doodles of a few Strange Loop talks.
Good healthcare is nice to have.
Wrangle your terminal with tmux
A list of things I didn't understand at NE Scala Symposium.
My first video course is online at Egghead.
Highlights from my 2016 reading list.
Have your plant text you when it needs watering.
Intersections of fitness and (dis)ability.
BingoBits tweets partial Scrabble bingos. DailyOblo is a SET-inspired bot that tweets cards.
Apparently we're making a Strange Loop zine?
TLDR; User-Agent strings are important, even if they're nonsense.
Moving, knitting, reading, soldering.
Things I'm thinking about for my next sweater.
Reflections on my first year of knitting, and the hats/scarves/sweater/shawls I made along the way.
Visit to Noisebridge, a sewing class, kaballistic sci-fi.
Hello from the airport.
My first video lesson is live on Egghead.io.
Back from vacation, and back to our regularly scheduled linkspam.
Here's the pain scale I use in my daily journaling. Guaranteed non-scientific!
I'm teaching a soldering class at NYC Resistor on July 30th.
I spent the week in Paris for React Europe, so this week's linkspam is entirely React-themed.
Notes from the conference.
Prep for React Europe, knitting, linkspam.
Prep for a soldering class, reading CS papers, linkspam, the usual.
Esperanto scrabble tiles, more goats.
Got a crash course in 3D printing, took some notes.
Wekinator workshop, finished a scarf, started a hat, went to FACETS (briefly).
It was a bit chilly, and gorgeous, in New York this week.Bring Your Child to Work Day is apparently a real thing? (I ...
I want to try journaling a bit more about what Iāve actually done with my time. Hereās some stuff I did last week: ...
This morning, I am sitting in my apartment with a glass of fresh cold-brew and my laptop, going through my Pocket lis...
A simple hat.
A book on building mobile apps with JavaScript.
Infinity scarf knit from Noro Obi yarn.
Project with conductive thread, Arduino, and ChucK.
Of course we laser-etched pi pies for Super Pi Day.
About a month ago I wrote an article for InfoQ: React.js in Real Life at Codecademy.Itās been fun watching the respon...
Laser + Sugar + Chocolate = Fun.
Simple European 4-in-1 brass bracelet, made with 18ga 3/16" rings.
WIP experiment with conductive paint, a laser-cut puzzle, and LEDs.
I'm at React.js Conf!
I put my Piano Stairs on Instructables a while ago, and other people have made their own!
I finished Duolingoās German tree last week. After some months (9? 10?) of slow but steady progress, it felt really r...
My roommate and I experimented with laser-cutting chocolate.
Turn a mug of water into a musical instrument.
I went to Maker Faire a couple of weeks ago! It was really wonderful. I had never been before, and it was so overwhel...
Iām no longer a student! Wow, thatās weird.I moved to NYC and started my job at Codecademy about a month ago now. So ...
Last week I took a laser-cutting class at NYC Resistor. Iād stopped by their table at MakerFaire, and thought it migh...
Harvest Zhang and I perform together for our final project, using a mindwave reader and my Illumaphone.
Spatial, light-based instrument I built for a final project.
A Twitch.TV-controlled hexapod, built with Arduino, Electric Imp, and a bunch of laser-cut acrylic and servos.
Turn any staircase into a piano with an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and $6 worth of light sensors.
For HackPrinceton 2013, we made some DDR Gloves.