With a bipartisan majority, the US is back in the semiconductor game. Intel, TSMC, and others will be getting investments to build domestic fabs. This will be critical for creating supply chain resiliency regardless of future geopolitics. Fabs are cool, but the bill itself includes funding for much more…

In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about how I created a browser extension for Overleaf. In keeping with the theme of large leaves, I called it Rafflesia for Overleaf. In this article, I want to cover some of the features of the extension that involve it directly interacting…

Over the last few months I’ve worked on a handful of assorted projects and written short blog posts about them. For the next few months, I want to go deeper into one particular project. First, I learned and struggled a bit on this one. Second, I need to focus on…

In my previous article, I discussed how I built the Common Expression Language spec for TypeScript so that it could be run in a browser for complex queries. Now it’s time for part 2, where I discuss how I actually integrated this into my web app. In terms of the…

Searching and filtering is a fairly common task, particularly as our data needs have continued to grow. In one particular application I was building, users found themselves with a diverse collection of items and poor tools to make sense of them. To make it easier, I added a search system…

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company. I was recently on Twitter and saw this tweet: Is it accurate? Yes. Violent crime isn’t nearly as high as in previous decades. However, it’s also misleading and not acknowledging the problem is deeply anti-progressive. Violent crime is up When I…

Today is Memorial Day, a day to remedy those who died defending freedom. This year we should extend that to the Ukrainians, who have unfortunately been thrust into the current situation. While the war continues, Russia has failed to take Kyiv and seems likely to lose entirely. It is worth…

In my spare time (whatever that’s supposed to mean) I’ve been iterating slowly on a web game. It’s neat, using web technologies like Angular, PWAs, and serverless to make the deployment process straightforward. Adding Angular is somewhat recent. Rewriting the game’s frontend to TypeScript has actually been really useful in…

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company. I went to college majoring in Electrical & Computer Engineering. I also decided to get a minor in Computer Science. At my university, the CS and ECE courses are taught by two different departments. …