Obligatory First Post
I’m finally making the move from my old blog hosted on WordPress to this snazzy new Octopress. A few of the reasons why:Hosted on GitHub and backed by Git (yay!)Markdown for everythingShifting focus...
View ArticlePython Antics
It’s strange how often I find myself in situations where I have to do stupid things that push the boundaries of whatever languages I am working with. Recently I’ve been doing a lot of Python...
View ArticleOn Having a Job
I started programming always thinking I’d eventually have one of those programming jobs. You know, one where you’re stuck in a little cube on some floor in some building with a big shiny metal sign...
View ArticleHow I Configured a Blog
The blog you’re reading right now was configured 100% entirely by yours truly. I say configured rather than some other verb (like programmed or built) because a ridiculous amount of the work involved...
View ArticleWebs and Streams
Note: This post was adapted from an assignment I had to do for a Systems Design course at college. We were tasked with writing about what we thought were the world’s worst and best designs. Here are my...
View Article(Almost) Proper Cross-Browser Timestamps
While making this blog, one of the things I had to do was figure out a way to represent post timestamps. These are used not only for sorting and filtering posts by date, but to display the date a post...
View Articlestrap: Make for Stupid People
I made this thing called strap. It’s pretty kewl. This is a post about why it was made, how it was made, and what you can do with it.
View ArticleSVG Optimization
SVG images are pretty awesome. However, just like anything else on the web they should be optimized for size and displayability, and that’s when things get decidedly less awesome.But fear not! After...
View ArticleUseful GitHub Commit Emoji
For a while now users of GitHub have been able to include emoji pretty much anywhere. The problem? There are nearly 1000 to choose from, so which ones are actually useful for commits?
View ArticleFavicons Suck
Every once in a while I tinker with my website to “improve” it. In the last such attempt at improvement I decided to tackle decent favicon support. Up until then I had been using a base64-encoded 16x16...
View ArticleFour Things Computer Science Should Teach
I can’t speak for every college in the world when I say that a computer science curriculum, and by extension academia in general, leaves one sorely unprepared for the workplace.
View ArticleWhat Lambda Is
To quote Joe MacMillan from Halt and Catch Fire, “The computer’s not The Thing. It’s the thing that gets us to The Thing.”I sense another Thing approaching.
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AWS Lambda: Testing the Waters
In a previous post I waxed poetic about the potential of AWS Lambda. Now it’s time to actually use it.
View ArticleHTML5 Games with Phaser, Parse, and CoffeeScript
A year and a half ago, I spent a week making an HTML5 game called Dave Likes Pizza, despite knowing next to nothing about web development. Not surprisingly, the final product was an abomination of web...
View ArticlePython on AWS Lambda
Want to use Python on AWS Lambda? Lambda currently only supports JavaScript via Node, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying.
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