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…

Spoiler: I just switched to virtualized Ubuntu instead of using Docker Windows — First things first: This is me documenting my way through a personal project, not a troubleshooting guide. If you saw a similar error and found yourself here, let me try to say just enough so that you will not have wasted your click: The most common cause is documented on…

Or “Trying To Run Docker On Windows” — The setup of our project remains the same: Smack spun up a Linux development environment on AWS, and is now using a roughly 70-line Python script to stream audio from an RTL-SDR. He added Docker, and this blog post will be me trying to run the container on Windows via…

Talking through a ChatGPT idea… — It’s really easy to START projects — I think anyone can attest to that, as it provides the experience of learning something new without having to work through the most difficult challenge of the actual field (ie debugging). When I wrote a post about gRPC, for example, I got a…

Buy tokens -> Use API -> ? -> Profit — I had a chance to use the ChatGPT API and wanted to document what I have learned so far. What I have is disappointingly basic, but in the process I found some useful tutorials I will link, hopefully laying the groundwork for more impressive projects. What this post will include: …

I Just Renewed My Ham Radio License! — The original title for this was “A Very, Very Surface-Level Look At Ham Radios,” but it ended up having more to do with the RTL-SDR. You can read all about it here, but essentially an RTL-SDR is a $30 dongle you can use to listen to radio signals. As you…

Inspired by the California URISA’s “Mappy Hour” — At $100 a year, ArcGIS is a somewhat expensive mapping software used by 350,000 organizations. I had the pleasure of attending “Mappy Hour” in Sacramento, an open event sponsored by California URISA and intended for people passionate about ArcGIS. The pun alone was already worth it. I learned more about…

An open discussion about workplace amenities as layoffs continue — My last article titled “Making Sense Of Tech Layoffs” (subheading: Who, exactly, is getting laid off?) was pushed by the Medium algorithm and became relatively popular, though it was also criticized. Someone wrote: Be concise. Don’t waste my time. Consolidate that shit and deliver what your title says. This may…