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
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
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
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
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
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,
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