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How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

Visualizing my strengths and areas for growth with RPG radar charts

Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests

All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer

Brute-forcing the NYT Digits game

The dog hair and the computer mouse

Things that are hard to measure, things that are easy to measure

In the desert, no service, and your partner's late to the rendezvous. What now?

Practice being a beginner

Learning by working on problems just outside of your reach

iPhones and action discoverability, or "How the hell was I supposed to know that?"

The hobby buyer's fallacy: "I'd really pursue my hobby if I just bought X"

Stubbornness and programming

Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch

What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really

Sharpening the axe for programming

Funny artifacts in a 3D house scan

My false start when learning to program

Work context, home context

How to break the Envoy CI at head

Long running pull requests

How far behind a plane is its noise?

I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

Playing with a 3D representation of RGB color space

Wikipedia Over WhatsApp

A basic ear training note matching game

"I don't know the numbers": a math puzzle

Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable

Opinionated variable names

What is a minute, really?

The tech interview prep industry

Keeping a debugging lab notebook

Detecting pitch with the Web Audio API and autocorrelation

I prefer my biographies in chronological order, thank you very much

My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

I miss easily seeing how my coworkers use tools

Morse Codle

Writing Morse code games in JavaScript using the Web Audio API

Little games to play with Morse Code in your browser

Writing a toy traceroute from scratch

(1) New Message: How websites catch your attention with JavaScript

How do you visualize code?

A Children's Book Story About Distributed Systems

Completing a Part-Time Master's in Computer Science While Working

The Strange Path of Accepting How Your Brain Works

Writing an RPC From Scratch

You're Reading This in the Future

Checking if the Pi is done

Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster for Building Toy Distributed Systems

Debugging a launch-blocking issue

Code Review and Criticism

Don't touch my clipboard

Harnessing the Power of Shower Thoughts

Dark pattern for autoplaying videos: clickjacking pause

Clickbait Snail Mail

MapReduce in Simple Language

Good Design: Double Sided Park Signs

Why does a spray bottle work?

Letting the User Guide You: Analyzing Store Design

Building a Simple Cache Server in Python

Investigating JavaScript's RegExp Lookbehind

JavaScript: Writing your own Array.reduce

typeof null: investigating a classic JavaScript bug

Investigating JavaScript Casting Behavior

Investigating a Bug in Moment.js

Connecting Arduino with a Node Server

MBTA Bus Mirrors

Temperature Sensing with Arduino

Noticing UI: Shazam's loading screen