Hi, welcome to my website & blog!
I’m a Software Engineer at Notion in San Francisco. I'm passionate about software, design, education, music, and philosophy. Here you’ll find various musings about navigating work & life and some things I have built. 😊
Posts
Articles
Articles
Software experimentation sins
Nov 17, 2024
Articles
A guide on how to do software experimentation less wrong.
Advice for students
Sep 23, 2024
Articles
Some practical advice for college students in tech majors.
On debugging
Aug 4, 2024
Articles
A mental model for diagnosing and fixing code issues faster.
Graphs of knowledge: computer science
Mar 2, 2023
Articles
An exploration of the breadth and depth of a computer science career.
Don’t thrash the user: how UI/UX disruption erodes software trust & love
Nov 28, 2022
Articles
An article on UI/UX thrash and how to minimize it.
So long, Meta: 3 years in a badge post
Aug 8, 2022
Articles
Reflections on 3 years of working at Meta.
Projects
Projects
Building Bomberman with Claude!
Nov 30, 2024
Software
Projects
I built a bomberman clone with help from LLMs!
Databases at Notion
Apr 14, 2024
Projects
I currently work on building out the databases product at Notion!
wustep.me: now powered by Notion
Nov 21, 2022
Projects
In Nov 2022, I redid my website! It’s now powered by Notion and the nextjs-notion-starter-kit repo.
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Profiles on Facebook.com
Aug 1, 2022
Projects
Between 2019 and 2022, I helped build out Profiles at Facebook.com.
Highlighty: Phrase Highlighter Extension
Mar 1, 2020
Projects
🧰 Highlighty is an open-source phrase highlighter extension.
Chorus: Multi-Device Coordination for Data Visualizations
Apr 30, 2018
Projects
During my time as a Research Assistant for the Interactive Data Systems Group, I built a library for multi-device data coordination for data visualizations.
TBDBITL: An Infographic for The Best Damn Band In The Land
Dec 31, 2016
Projects
🥁 For a class at The Ohio State University, I tackled making an infographic for the marching band with two classmates, using D3.js.
Starry Night Sequencer: A MIDI Visualizer
Dec 31, 2016
Projects
🎹 For a Design class, I built a MIDI data visualization on top of a GIF of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night.
Greenbears: Sports Management Website
Dec 1, 2014
Projects
🐻 My first large project was a CMS built in PHP for sports websites, built around 2013-14. The website was used by 60+ athletes and parents in my high school's cross-country and track & field teams.
Notes
Notes
Personal Essays
Personal Essays
Headspace
Nov 7, 2024
Personal Essays
An exploration of seeing the self as a blob navigating an infinitely dimensional headspace.
Foraging
Jun 25, 2024
Personal Essays
On navigating ADHD.
Vulnerability
Feb 1, 2023
Personal Essays
On finding and cultivating vulnerability.
On Play
Oct 4, 2020
Personal Essays
A short read about the concept of play, inspired by childhood imagination and music.