Posts by Allen Cheung
Year in Review — 2019
2019 marks the end of the second decade in the 21st century. I'm going to resist the temptation to do the thing where you look back at the past 10 years and try to sum up 3652.5…
Games are Getting Cheap Faster
Console and PC video game releases and launch dates roughly follow annual retail sales patterns: they start the year at a brisk pace, slow down in the summer months, and then surge for the fall and winter holiday seasons. Of…
A Job that Values Your Function
As a kid, I got into programming largely on my dad's encouragement. Despite not having any background in tech himself, he correctly surmised that computers will become an important facet of society; the impending wave of demand for…
The Library is Awesome
Like many parents of young children, our preparation for their arrival and guardianship unveiled for a whole new set of...infrastructure that supported young families, many of which we paid no attention to previously merely as adults. Kid-friendly restaurants; playgrounds;…
The Software Engineer Gold Rush
My computer science undergrad lasted through both the boom and bust cycles of the dotcom era. I entered as a freshmen in 2000, on the tail end of a multi-year technology bull market that saw unqualified companies force their way…
103 Months of Blogging
Engaging in a little bit of meta-blogging reflection here... It's been 103 months since I've started this blog, on what in retrospect was a valuable creative outlet that counterbalanced a mundane role I had in Google.…
