Side Projects

I’m very fond of the SDLC system I’ve recently built. It offers the high-level ergonomics I’ve always wanted without creating such a complex mental model that inspecting and debugging is difficult. An overview…

It took two years, but I finally finished building an interpreter.

Sometimes when you’re searching for a digital record, you don’t remember the precise wording of the original entry…. Semantic search attempts to compare the meanings of words and phrases instead of the characters.

My life is held together with the Todoist app … but it’s just not a good fit for work in the corporate world. And that led me to a practical side project.

For the last year or so, I’ve been chipping away at a side project: a weightlifting-tracking app. The ostensible purpose is to store the metrics I want and make data entry as convenient as possible, but in practice it’s mainly a way for me to become more familiar with the development of a “large” web application and the challenges that come with it.

In January, during some time off between jobs, I started working through Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom. There aren’t that many accessible books for programming language design and implementation, so discovering the book (and that it was free to read online!) was very exciting.

I recently crossed the 9-month mark as a Chicago resident. The time has come for a big decision: renew my lease, or make the move to a new apartment?