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Writing Posts with Markdown

For a little while, I was looking for a desktop blogging client to accompany Wordpress. I was particularly wary of the WP WYSIWYG editor, with its non-deterministic written text -> HTML conversion, and I was also wondering whether desktop editors had better keyboard shortcut support. Turns out, this is a case where active development...

Hacker News, Techcrunch, and the Power of "Google"

Whoa, what a wild week. As of this writing, this blog has received 26,704 hits total, the vast majority of which came from one article submitted on Hacker News(HN) and linked via Techcrunch (TC) on my phone screening practices whilst in the employment of the most trusted brand in America. It's...

Designing this Blog

It took me three and a half months to create the theme for this blog. Ok, so I was on-and-off, and many nights I was just too tired from coding at work to do any...

Oh wow, Yet Another Blog...

It's always fun to do the first post of a blog. Like writing the first lines of code in a project, there's always this call of potential and unrealized greatness a blank canvas affords. Yes, this time I'll keep this blog updated, filled with interesting content, hits driven by...