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My Favorite Books of 2019

I didn’t set out in 2019 to read 1-book-a-week, but well, here we are. šŸ˜„ Ā»

Fast Rust Docker Builds with "cargo vendor"

How to speed up Rust Docker container build times by using cargo vendor to cache a project’s dependencies. Ā»

Setting up Cloud Scheduler to Trigger Cloud Run

By combining Cloud Run and Cloud Scheduler, you can effectively run any Docker container on a set schedule. Ā»

The Value in Go's Simplicity

After using Go for a couple years, I’ve really come to appreciate its simplicity. I started writing Go at work a couple months ago, and have found it really easy to iterate on – much more so than Python and Java.

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A Gentle Nudge

Earlier this year, I was persuaded to start paper journaling. Paper journaling is unlikely to replace digital task management for me, but there definitely are some benefits to an analog, offline journal.

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Summer 2019

This is something of a post-summer retrospective. I graduated in May, and “took the summer off” to work on personal projects and travel.

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Introducing Messy: An iOS Grid Puzzle Game

I’m happy to announce the release of Messy, an iOS puzzle game I’ve been working on for the last few months. šŸ˜„

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On Graduating or: What to Optimize For

Last weekend, I graduated from UIUC with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science. Thus brings an end (for now, at least) to my formal education career. It still hasn’t really hit me yet that I’m “done,” but I am looking forward to traveling a bit this summer, and then starting my full-time job in the fall. This will be kind of an unorganized post, as many of my ideas aren’t completely formed yet, but I wanted to write down some reflections on my college experience.

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Finding Flow in Haskell

For the last couple of months, I’ve been working on-and-off in Haskell for my programming languages class. I’ve written previously about my preference for declarative functional syntax, but I’d never really spent the time to learn a pure Functional Programmingā„¢ļø language.

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Don't Look at the Keys

Every once in a while, you ā€œdiscoverā€ something so banal that it’s become a clichĆ©, and yet it still feels like some deep insight. It’s a strangely humbling experience.

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