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I hope you have a good time here. Thanks for dropping by.
Background
Education and Certificates
B.S. Computer Engineering from UC San Diego (2016)
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Favorite
Music
Web Applications
- “Bookmarklet Creator” by Peter Coles (Execute JavaScript with the push of a button.)
- “Capitalize My Title” by Bobby Kania (Capitalize your titles!)
- “ChemGuide” by Jim Clark (Chemistry taught correctly.)
- “Flame of Life” by Brad Lyon (Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.)
- “MuseScore” by Werner Schweer (Find and play sheet music.)
Desktop Software
- “BlueStacks” by Rosen Sharma (Run Android apps on PC/Mac.)
- “LibreOffice” by The Document Foundation (Open-source Microsoft Office replacement.)
- “ScreenToGif” by Nicke Manarin (Animated screenshots.)
- “Stellarium” by Fabien Chéreau (Astronomy for city-dwellers.)
- “Vimium” by Phil Crosby (Chrome extension for mouse-less browsing.)
- “youtube-dl” by Ricardo García (YouTube video downloader.)
Blog Posts
- “A Career Cold Start Algorithm” by Andrew Bosworth (What to do on your first day.)
- “4 Things You Should Probably Never Do at Work” by Michael Church (Office survival tips.)
- “How to Send and Reply to Email” by Matt Might (Professional etiquette.)
- “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart (All children should read this.)
Programming Books
- Effective Python by Brett Slatkin (Intermediate Parseltongue.)
- Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke (Make the web browser your playground.)
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (Understand working programmers.)
- Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley (Parables from the Golden Age.)
(For more fun, check out this list by the Free Ebook Foundation.)
History Books
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (How economies work.)
- Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary (Islam through the ages.)
- Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis (50 million forgotten murders.)
- A Most Holy War by Mark Pegg (Modern civilization’s roots.)
(For more, check out the World History Association’s list of Bentley Book Prize winners.)
Autobiographies
- 400 Things Cops Know by Adam Plantinga (Police should be paid more.)
- Revolutionary Suicide by Huey Newton (Black Panther before it was cool.)
- To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall (U.S. foreign policy at the ground level.)
- Two Arms and a Head by Clayton Schwartz (Life with paraplegia.)
Short Stories
- “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin (Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust.)
- “Frost and Fire” by Ray Bradbury (Man that is born of a woman is of few days.)
- “Golden” by Nick Bostrom (Transhumanists beware.)
- “The Last Answer” by Isaac Asimov (Immortality is overrated.)
- “To Build a Fire” by Jack London (Small mistakes add up.)
Comic Books
- The Book of Genesis Illustrated by Robert Crumb (Brings scripture to life.)
- Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (Reality.)
- The Cartoon History of the Universe by Larry Gonick (Sic transit gloria mundi.)
- Maus by Art Spiegelman (Probably the best comic ever written.)
(For more fun, check out Graphic Novels and Manga by Paul Gravett.)
The Cartoon History of the Universe by Larry Gonick
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka
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