Book Reviews
When to Value Non-Technical Work
This presentation resonates: Being Glue It's a pretty long read, but the high-level gist is that software engineers are, more often than not, evaluated primarily on hard technical chops. You know: the typical stuff that you find…
The Dygma Defy Keyboard
Edit: I've been using this keyboard for a while now, and have updated my impressions here. A year ago, I ordered and reviewed the Kinesis Advantage360: a modern update to the Advantage line of ergonomic keyboards[1]. As…
Asian Real Estate Attitudes
As a first-generation Asian-American immigrant, the duality of Eastern and Western culture is a part of everyday life. There are holidays and traditions on both sides that we end up celebrating; home-cooked meals that cater to multiple…
When to Code Creatively
This article caught my attention: Being "rockstars": when software was a talents/creatives industry 🎭 The post meanders quite a bit, but the central theme is that the author laments the loss of creativity in software development. Their solution,…
Asian-American Cinema
A couple of months back, we turned on the Oscar awards, I think for the first time in well over a decade, mostly to see how Everything Everywhere All at Once would fare that evening. Given that the movie had…
Asking an AI the Right Questions
It feels like 2022 is the year of democratizing AI. GPT-3 made headlines back in 2020 when it launched to a limited audience and its new users played around with the tool, but it took a little over a…
