What would happen if I made a Web Log?
What follows is a list of random thoughts on running that I compiled for my friend and newly-minted runner Lev Lazinsky. Lev was offended that I provided this information directly to him in a Google Doc instead of sharing it with the world in my neglected blog, so on my blog it goes Disclaimer: Particularly Continue reading My Running Tips
A year ago today, I released my first iOS app, ToneBoard Keyboard, onto the app store. ToneBoard is a Chinese keyboard for iOS that helps you learn Mandarin Chinese tones while you type. I had meant to write up some thoughts on the process of making and releasing the app then, but I never got Continue reading A Year of ToneBoard
NOTE: This is a post that I began writing in 2017, back when I was last trying to blog. In order to wash away any guilt about not blogging for so long, I feel like I should go ahead and publish it in some form. One of the reasons I never completed this particular post Continue reading On Steel
A friend recently tipped me off to The little book about OS development, an excellent hands-on resource on writing a (simple) operating system from scratch. I ve been working through the book, and it s been an amazing learning experience. A lot of the initial difficulty was in the tangential exercise of setting up a reasonable dev environment Continue reading Working through littleosbook on a Mac
I happened upon a blog post a while ago on Maciej Cegłowski’s Idle Words, called “Web Design: The First 100 Years” (apparently it’s actually a print adaptation of a talk he gave). In this post, Cegłowski proposes three different visions of the internet : Vision 1: CONNECT KNOWLEDGE, PEOPLE, AND CATS. Vision 2: FIX THE WORLD WITH SOFTWARE Continue reading Champions of the Internet