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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
- “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
- Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke (Make the web browser your playground.)
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (Understand working programmers.)
- Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley (Timeless tools of the trade.)
(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.)
- The Novel by Steven Moore (Literature’s evolution around the world.)
(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.)
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka
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