Your Brain is a Transformer (Or Maybe It's the Other Way Around)

I’ve been going down a rabbit hole lately that I can’t stop thinking about, so naturally I have to write about it. It started with a simple question: why does the …

Bobiverse: Critical Analysis of Drift

I recently read the book series referred to as the “Bobiverse,” that tickled my nerd fancy so much that I had to write about it. While I really loved the book, that is …

What is life?

After googling the definition of Life and I was a bit disappointed to find that the best definitions were anchored in functions we associate with life, but I couldn’t quite …

$trong AI

End of Work = Beginning of Creativity

When most people hear the end of work, they might picture the world looking glazed over and staring at the television with a bag of cheese puffs in their hand making an occasional …

GitHub Inbox Zero

I recently reached inbox zero on GitHub for the first time in a long time. A while ago I got freaked out by the possibility of people stealing my secret keys through CI and I …

the yin and yang of utility

I just did some dehydrating exercise in the sun, so this will be what amounts to some pontificating shower thoughts. But you already clicked on the link so you might as well read …

coming soon: peerstate

All of my open source projects start with trying to build something, getting frustrated, saying in my head “I wish I could just do this,” then obsessively investigating …

Open Source: Chasing the Dream

I love open source. I love to imagine writing code a certain way, trying to find something that does it, failing to find said thing and building it. I love publishing it and …

My AI Story (3/3)

After graduating with my BS in Computer Science, AI moved to side project status as I took a job as a Full Stack Software Engineer at Pivotal Labs. The side project years of my AI …

My AI Story (2/3)

Learning in school was very difficult for me because I was more of a hands on learner and school was very heavy on lecturing. When I am in situations that frustrate me, I try and …

My AI Story (1/3)

If I’m going to start writing about AI, I figure I should give some backstory first on my life in AI.

My first introduction to AI was probably when I was 9 years old and …

High Altitude Mass Volley

Preamble

I have always been interested in space, but this idea for getting there cheaper has been brewing for a few years, and while I’ve yet to sit down and do the math, it has …

The Dangers of Idiomatic Programming

What does it mean to be idiomatic?

“Of, relating to, or conforming to idiom” - Merriam-Webster

So what is an idiom?

“The syntactical, grammatical, or structural …

The Job of an OS

Why are operating systems still multi-user?

So I’m minding my own business, setting up Arch linux in my unrooted Termux installation on my phone, when all of a sudden, makepkg wants me to not be root to run a build. …

Future of Flight: Spontaneous trip to Paris

I want to go to France, I didn’t plan to go, I was just waking on the highline and was like, I think I want to go to Paris. I take out my phone, and open my air travel app …

Crystallize your abstractions carefully...

Imaginary Lines

If I had to sum up the job of a software engineer in laymen’s terms, I would tell you that we draw imaginary lines around imaginary concepts until those concepts can map to …

GraphiQL Bookmarklet

jscodemigrate (deps|dependencies)

jscodeshift + rails migrations = jscodemigrate

Graphql + Bookshelf

I recently switched over the project I was working on from MongoDB to PostgreSQL. The reason for the switch is not what I’m writing to discuss, but I’ll just say that …

React Native on Heroku

As a web developer doing iOS development with react native, I need a staging environment for the product manager to review changes to the app.

On the web, that means using Heroku, …

Will Relay replace Flux?

Why I'm Excited for Facebook's Relay and GraphQL

Searching for an Isomorphic Reactiflux Stack