Welcome to my User Guide to working with me! I offer this to you because I recognize that the faster we get to know each other and how we work, the better and stronger our relationship will be, and the more we’ll accomplish together. I encourage you to write your own User Guide so I
Mostly just rants and un(der)-informed opinions.
Breaking Down Complicated JSON
Working title: “Using D3 flame charts to provide insight into the largest components of large, variable JSON objects”. Summary I’ve written a tool to visualize the size of a JSON object. It takes any JSON object as input and creates a JSON format which D3 can consume to create a flame chart representing the
Getting your tagged Facebook photos
This post only represents an approach to pull data from Facebook that appears to otherwise be unavailable to the end user. I am not a strong proponent of the “remove Facebook” tribe nor do I really care all that much about my data being shared. If you just want to skip to the photo downloading
MyCraft
This is a retroactive post about a project I did almost 7 years ago, in 2012. I’ve called it “MyCraft”, basically it was a homework / final project for the Computer Graphics class at Berkeley. If I remember correctly, I spent a couple hours here and there improving it the winter after, but most of
What makes a good interview?
My thoughts on how to conduct practical interviews for Software Engineering candidates. Any professional software developer has been through it, standing in front of a whiteboard reciting some algorithm you are supposed to have memorized, that you have never once used for anything in your career. Obviously, that isn’t a good test of ability. Classical
An opinion on internet security
How do I know what kinds of proactive internet security are worthwhile for my software project? I have been struggling, for years, to find a good answer to this question. This seems like something I could have learned in a graduate course on security, but I’m naive and now that I’m looking for an answer,
Why can’t I open source this?
In my last job, I wanted to open source some code. What I wanted to open source was a collection of integration examples, so it used many JS frameworks from many sources, all of which were “Free” and/or “Open Source”. I followed the normal process, contacted the legal team, and sent them information on the