Dev in the Desert: finishing my CS degree and starting my new career in Israel.

  • Roof Rack Configurator Project: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the learning curve.

    Well, that’s not entirely true. But so far, this project has had the single steepest learning curve in my time in Oregon State’s CS program. Previous projects posed tremendous challenges – I’m looking at YOU, “smallsh”, but they tended to be confined to a set of established tools for a well-defined task. We weren’t inventing…

  • Hello world from Tel Aviv

    I started my CS program at the beginning of the pandemic just outside Washington DC, when no commute and vanishingly rare social engagements freed up my nights and weekends.  After thousands of lines of code, moments of rage at uncooperative functions, 2 whiteboards delivered by Amazon, and just enough ‘aha’ moments, I find myself about…

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