Right-to-roam, relics, dangerous bees and horses — Often when I go on trips these days, I don’t seriously research the things I want to do until I get there and I’m laid out on the bed that first night. So when I was researching Cornwall that first night, one of the things I found was an app…

🐞🐞🐞 — It’s been a year since the dreaded happened, and I’ve always meant to blog about my experience with bed bugs in the spirit of getting more information out there on the internet. First of all, if you’re reading this and you haven’t had bed bugs, here’s my quick advice for…

My personal experience with software interviews in 2020 — These past couple months, I conducted my first real software engineer job search in almost ten years. It was eye-opening and I want to get my thoughts down about the experience before I block it out of my memory. In hindsight, it was maybe irresponsible for me to interview people…

That answers all your celestial questions — This fall I did Recurse Center. When I thought about how to spend my time there, one area of interest stuck out to me — voice technology. I see my mom use dictation software and voice assistants often. The software is at once impressive and also has room for improvement…

Recently someone remarked that I was good at finding accommodations for trips. That struck me as funny as I thought about all the hours-long sessions I’d spent trawling manually through hundreds of listings. It doesn’t feel like a particular skill I have, more than a dose of patience for scrolling…

Machine learning brings Medium’s tags to life — This was originally published Jan 18, 2018 on Hatch, Medium’s internal instance, to explain a hack week project to the company. When you publish a post on Medium, you’re prompted to add labels to your post that describe what your post is about. These tags are mostly free-form. …