Software Engineer and Writer
About 8 years ago, there was a proliferation of websites featuring short anecdotes punctuated by an acronym. You may remember TFLN and FML. It turns out that the popularity of these sites is what inspired the first iteration of TFM–Total Frat
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Whenever I eat lunch near a computer, which usually happens every day, I open a new browser window with all of my favorite news sites pre-loaded. During a short lunch period, I cram in as much information and as much food
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I spend a lot of time online shopping. I’ve encountered a bevy of payment systems, each with its own quirks. By now, though, payment and checkout processes are overwhelmingly fluid and user-friendly. For more than a year, I’ve been involved with
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Twenty years ago, I started preschool at Prescott Elementary School in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It was a classic upbringing in a blue-collar neighborhood. It was simpler. Math was math, kids were kids, there was no air conditioning, and corporal punishment was
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Recently, I found myself on the Wikipedia page for Memcached, a popular distributed object caching system. It turns out that the open-source project was developed by the guy who created LiveJournal. LiveJournal is a blogging site that started in 1999,
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GeeksForGeeks is a Computer Science portal based in India. It’s hard not to end up on the site while searching for answers to interview questions. It’s a sprawling repository for everything related to programming, but especially for topics commonly tested in the fabled “Coding Interview.”
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Notes: This is an article that I wrote, almost entirely, in February 2018. I never published it. I found it two and a half years later and basically published it as-is. This week’s New York Times exposé–The Follower Factory–has brought a renewed
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If you spend enough time on the internet and enough time pondering ways to make money, you’ll become aware of freelancing. More specifically elancing, though I’ll use the terms interchangeably. Elancing is the practice of performing freelance work that is usually both
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When Tai Lopez first let us into his garage in 2015, some were captivated by his pursuit of knowledge. Others turned him into a meme. He was standing next to a Lamborghini, surrounded by shelves packed with books, and claimed
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Back when I first started “spending too much time on the computer,” I wanted to be a hacker1. The Uploading Virus scene in Independence Day was my main inspiration. I toiled on HackThisSite.org in my early teenage years but all I learned
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