Someone I knew in high school wrote me a really nice message on Facebook about how I got him interested in programming and inspired him to become a software engineer — as it turned out, this message was exactly what I needed. …

“Stop blindly grinding leetcode. Start grindly blinding blind75” — At long last, I am releasing my CORGIS into the wild — this is a webpage based on Yangshun Tay’s Blind75, but with YouTube resources and topic lists for every question. The webpage is simply hosted on GitHub Pages. Who Is This For? This is for software engineer candidates who…

“I AM LORD VOLDEMORT” — Nick White covered this problem in a YouTube video, and more than a few people wrote in to complain about his assertion that “this was a very easy problem.” They searched the video to find the solution, after all…clearly some people did not find it easy. This problem is classified…

A summary and discussion of Khun Yee Fung’s thoughtful comment — I wrote this blog post a little while ago, and received a very thorough and thoughtful comment from a user named Khun Yee Fung. Here is the comment, if you would like to read it in its entirety. The comment is long enough to be its own blog post, and…

Thank you, Medium staff, for boosting my last post — The blog post I wrote last week got boosted, which is a really minor thing considering it has fewer than 800 views but a very major thing if you are like Smillew Rahcuef and think that Medium is a video game. …

Or “Software Engineer Screening, FizzBuzz History, and FizzBuzz In The Modern Age” — The title I just used was a mouthful, but it is derived from the much catchier blog post titled “Why Can’t Programmers…Program?” The blog post states: Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can’t write code at…

It didn’t work, but I still wanted to write what I learned about browser extensions — A little while ago, I wrote a Medium post about a Minecraft YouTube video, and someone left me a particularly critical comment about how this video was so pointless, and my article so stupid, that he had now lost faith in humanity. …

This is old, but you can find a pretty interesting Reddit discussion about whether or not everyone should learn to code. The topic is tired by now, but I wanted to write about five general skills programming teaches. …

Inspired By “Is Tech Too Easy To Use?” — There is a YouTube video by someone called “The Coding Sloth” currently making the rounds. The video does not take itself very seriously — The Coding Sloth is, or was, an unemployed computer science graduate who wants to do more LeetCode, so the video is of him writing a browser…