Posts by Allen Cheung
Reflecting on Final Fantasy XV
I’ve been playing Final Fantasy games, by my count, for the past 24 years. It’s the premiere Japanese RPG series, one that guarantees high production values and solid gameplay, spectacles equivalent of long-running summer blockbuster sequels[1]. Starting…
How Lightweight is a Lightweight Process?
A couple weeks back, as I was reading another big-mailing-list email about how we’re instituting a new set of processes to meet a set of implied standards, I saw that the author reassuringly stated that his implementation was lightweight.…
CSS All the Things
There's no shortage of minimalist text editors and writing utilities on the Mac. For whatever reason, the exact interface to inputting text in a window can be done a hundred different ways, and each permutation deserves its own,…
Review: Invisible Planets
The Three-Body Problem was a fun series. Granted, it won numerous awards, so the quality of the writing[1] and plot points weren’t going in be in question, but I had enjoyed that specific take on science fiction that…
Revisiting the Tech Lead/Manager Role
A couple years back, when I was first getting into management and learning from some of the best managers I’ve ever had the privilege of working with, I concluded that the Tech Lead/Manager (TL/M) role—whereby one…
Hooked on Picross
I just discovered Picross. Also known as nonograms, they’re these puzzles that involve filling out 2D—and sometimes, 3D—grids. Clues to which areas are to be filled are listed down the sides of the 2D/3D grid area,…
