Recent blog entries

It’s well-known in the software engineering field that it’s hard to recruit software engineers. Once, a recruiter once complained to me that most software engineers ignored introductory emails. (In co

This blog entry is a response to a question I got in a stack overflow post: How to get non-current thread's stacktrace? [In C# / .Net] Specifically, I was asked if there were alternatives to the origi

Note: The article made it to the front page of hacker news! Lots of great discussion there.The software engineering field has controversy over using whiteboard coding in interviews, versus candidates

Highlights:Make sure your sound works within 3 minutes. If there are problems, switch to your phone immediatelyYour background is more important than what you wearA good computer often sounds better t

I’ve had my Telsa Model 3, dual motor, for a year. It’s a great car, and one of the best cars I’ve ever owned. The thing with the Tesla Model 3 is that, because it’s so groundbreaking, it’s hard to fi

I wrote a tool to investigate degradation of audio in lossy compression, like mp3 and aac. With this tool, I demonstrated that high bitrate lossy audio is not sufficient for audiophile-quality recordi

The web is full of various discussions on how to embed C# into JavaScript. Most of these approaches are flawed because they rely on the deprecated Microsoft.JScript APIs. Other approaches, like hostin

Available on Github:The PDF Thumbnail Generator is designed to allow for easy creation of thumbnails from PDF files. There are two versions: Create Thumbnails of the First Page of Many PDFs: Creates a

I wanted to experiment with using .NET's TypeBuilder class to automatically generate classes at runtime. For my experiment, I decided to implement a function, that, given an interface, returns a fully

This is a talk that I gave with Jeff Jones at the Santa Cruz Future Salon on November 18, 2007.We are moving to a world where access to information is perceivably free and instantly accessible. 20th C

This is an open letter to the internet advertising industry. It is targeted towards companies that advertise, advertising agencies, and web sites that host advertising. The letter was originally a rep

Have you ever been in an argument that went nowhere? One where neither side would admit to a tie without calling the other side an idiot? One where one or both sides just “couldn’t give up,” without t

Before I start, I would like to refer the reader to a document on mastering vinyl records at the following URL: http://www.urpressing.com/tips.html. I make comments about records that can be understoo

Note: These pages are quite old, but I prefer to leave them as-is. Their style is quite similar to how the web looked in the early 2000s.I currently own a set of self-built DIY Voight Pipes. There are

One late night I was looking for reviews of DVD-Audio disks and came across an article which claimed that the goal of DVD-Audio is to fight MP3s. Here is my response. I didn't know that the site was g

Yeah, I actually wore this tie to school one day during high school. (I went to a private catholic high school that requires its students to wear ties.) It was quite funny. A few days later, I happene