I'm an attorney turned coder with a deep interest in cloud computing, and solving problems generally.
I came across this blog post from Rebrandly, titled "Why building a link shortener at scale is harder than it looks." Since Rebrandly sells URL shortening services, you can guess the thesis: you can b
I realize It’s almost been two years since I last updated this; life’s been busy. I’m considering a Master’s in computer science, and I’ve been preparing for that by taking college courses in computer science. Moreover, I switched jobs in the middle ...
I recently came across this list of misconceptions programmers have about addresses. This subject is near and dear to me - my first job in tech involved incorporating Google Maps APIs into web applications, and often times what looked like technical ...
AI will probably constitute a significant innovation for legal practice. Beyond the direct use of ChatGPT itself, we're starting to see a set of AI offerings specific to the legal profession. Here are a few companies that have caught my attention: Ca...
I recently wrote a Github Action that makes one commit to its parent repo once a day, and I'll attach the code at the end of this article. It was a neat learning exercise, and a satisfying, although there's not much here technically. I became interes...
It's been a few months since my last entry, but I haven't been idle! I've been looking a lot into emerging AI technologies, particularly large language models like ChatGPT. Partially, this has been out of personal interest - I think the technology ...
I came to tech from the legal profession, and as such I've often thought about what makes these two fields similar yet different. I've written on this topic before - on the surface, these two fields could not be more different. Law is an older discip...
If you're installing Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), or if you're trying to upgrade from plain old WSL, please check and double-check your CPU settings in your BIOS. For most motherboards, there is a setting to enable or disable CPU virtualizat...
My new digital home.
