Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 on Windows. I remember playing the game at 1/6 speed on my father’s original-model Dell Inspiron laptop, never winning a match until I repurchased the game in a bundle
Read moreMeasuring Rap Lyric Clarity Part 1

I love rap music. Chances are, you do too. With the popularization of Genius, we now have a crowdsourced library of not only song lyrics, but also the meaning behind those lyrics sometimes provided by the artists themselves. This is
Read moreRe: Please don’t learn to code

About a month ago, a TechCrunch contributor named Basel Farag published an article titled Please don’t learn to code. In it, he criticizes the “Learn to Code” movement, or, broadly, the idea pulsating through society that everybody should learn how to
Read moreAn Optimal Runescape Staking Build

September 2018 Update: Staking has changed significantly due to recent game updates. I wrote a follow-up article covering that. I will leave this unedited, though I have come to suspect I made an error in my calculations and also dislike the verbosity. If
Read moreA Hackathon Sponsor’s Duty

Update: After first publishing this post in June, the student director of LehighHacks reached out almost immediately with his side of the story. Though my team was frustrated by Well’s Fargo’s apparent Houdini act, it turns out that the hackathon
Read moreCan Entrepreneurship be Taught?

While a sophomore at Lehigh, I noticed a massive increase in interest in the school’s entrepreneurship classes. Offered through the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Lehigh’s ever-expanding roster of experiential and classroom engagement courses is offered to students from all three colleges: Engineering, Business,
Read moreBuying Twitter Followers

I used to be really into Twitter. Up until the end of my sophomore year of college, which was not as long ago as I’d like to believe, I was tweeting regularly. Today, aside from the accessibility of popular users and the
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