Posts by Allen Cheung
What If?
xkcd is one of a kind: the popular stick-figure webcomic for nerds and geeks seems to offer relevant commentary for pretty much any occasion. Its blend of computing, physics, math, and insights on life works well at a time…
Full Stack Development Interview
I recently did an interview with Talentbuddy. They're a mentorship program that looks to get people started on full-stack web development in about three months time, and wanted me to speak to our front-end technologies at…
Unearthing an Old Programming Document
The internet never forgets. If nothing else, the Wayback Machine does a dutiful job of saving mostly coherent snippets of the web across an impressive breadth of time. I was reminded again a couple weeks ago, when someone sought me…
Think Like a Freak
Freakonomics was the book that, in my mind, started the "pop economics" trend: a brand of economics, applied to subjects that are relatable to the general public, targeted towards a mass audience as a different take on familiar…
Apple Pay and the Complexity of Payments
For the past couple of years, "payments" has been a frequent area targeted for innovation, something that tech companies and startups boast about disrupting but rarely back up with actual results. It has stubbornly refused to evolve from…
Virtually Collectable Card Bits
The story goes, I was tired and slightly bored during a recent business trip, and ended up downloading Blizzard's free card game Hearthstone from my hotel room. A few hundred games later, I can start to appreciate the…
