Posts by Allen Cheung
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;…
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…
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…
Review: A Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel
The Three-Body Problem is the Chinese science fiction series; it’s a grand romp through a first alien encounter sci-fi trope that gets progressively more epic with each novel, culminating with the fate of the universe and any…
Peak Smartphone
A couple years back, in the midst of the revival of PC hardware—new construction materials, screens, touch interfaces, etc.—, there were a handful of bearish takes which noted that the industry was on its last gasps, that in the…
