Blog Posts

• Generating Music from Text Notation April 2023

  An investigation into playing actual audio from a couple lines of ABC notation

• UI Testing March 2023

  Testing User Interface code sucks. It's difficult, fragile, and low value. The answer is easier than you think.

• Internet People I've Never Met March 2023

  There are a bunch of things I do today that originally came from 'internet strangers'. Maybe this is true for you too.

• UX: Wide + Shallow or Narrow + Deep? February 2023

  A framework for thinking about UX that applies to almost every visual product decision.

• Mobile Homes are a Great Deal February 2023

  Maybe shocking, but turns out that Manufactured homes, at least in the bay area, are actually really nice, and a very good value for your housing dollar.

• JavaScript Bitwise Hacks - My Favorites February 2023

  Bitwise hacks in JS can help you in your daily coding, even if you don't do a lot of nitty-gritty numerical and binary manipulation.

• Style Guides at Small Companies January 2023

  A style guide at a small company generates relief

• Book Summary - Debugging Teams October 2022

  As engineers & creators, problems are vague and certainty is rare. Still, large problems mean we need multiple people to move in the same direction.

• Summary: Podcast on Recent Korean History August 2022

  This excellent podcast series touches on Korean isolationism, Japanese occupation, Russian and US involvement, and the Korean war

• Build: An Electric Bike September 2019

  Make one of your own with twice the power for less money.

• Build: A speaker mount floating over your TV August 2019

  I found a simple solution for mounting a center speaker above a TV

• Build: A slim and sleek TV stand August 2019

  This stand uses integrated speakers to save space, and features a fold-down access door infrared remotes can go through

• UI Trick: Range Slider With Two Handles November 2018

  With a little bit of javascript, you can make two range inputs look like a modern two-handled range selector.

• Private Properties in JS September 2016

  In JavaScript, you can't hide object properties, so private instance properties are... impossible?

• Making a Stopwatch app in IOS June 2015

  My Very first iOS app. A Timer. How hard could it be?

• Advice from the 1963 class of Harvard Business School June 2015

  Be kind. Soon we’ll all be dead. - Dave Crowley

• A Visa Extension in Thailand June 2015

  Somehow government offices look the same everywhere.

• Memory and Pointers in iOS (C and Objective-C) May 2015

  If you are even a little uncertain about how pointers work, this post aims to clear it up.

• Javascript Dev Revisits the `C` programming language after 14 years May 2015

  I hadn't written a line of C since learning it in a high-school AP class.

• Create an Infinite Scroll List with Bacon.js May 2015

  In this tutorial, you'll learn to think "reactively" while building an infinite scroll UI using Bacon.js

• Swift Changes Since Launch That'll Break an iOS Project March 2015

  If you haven't touched Swift since Apple released it a year ago, some things have changed. Here's what I found.

• Book: How to Fail and Still Win Big February 2015

  An uncommonly straight-forward and practical how-to guide to success from the mind of an engineer turned cartoonist.

• Archive Dropbox Every Night on OSX December 2014

  A backup plan in case Dropbox goes haywire