Posts by Allen Cheung
Review: Always Day One
Did you know that there's an internal tools team within Apple that's staffed by contractors looking primarily to stay employed? Can you find a way to tie that to Amazon's infamous "It is…
A Housing Market Within the Pandemic
What happens when a market—say, real estate—experiences a sudden drop in liquidity as the environment makes it much harder for buyers and sellers to actually transact? In the Bay Area, we started sheltering in place in early March,…
Enterprise Grade Code
On a recent episode of the ATP podcast, one of the hosts lamented the idea that the PHP code that they've been writing has inexorably evolved and modernized —corrupted, even. Whereas PHP in its heyday was merely a…
The Abrupt Spotlight on Remote Education
For those of us lucky enough to be able to work from home, there's the reality that both aspects of work and life are now inexorably juxtaposed. In particular, for parents of kids who'd otherwise be…
Review: Art of the Good Life
Early on, it wasn't clear that Art of the Good Life was going to be much different than countless other self-help books that promise the nirvana of disproportionate self-driven improvement that eventually leads to, well, the…
Games as a Service
When the Bay Area shelter-in-place order started, there was plenty of online snark about the triviality of the policy: the oncoming pandemic threatened to reshape the world as disruptively as a global war or a historic depressionary market…
