• A Hidden Benefit of Software Engineering

  • 04 Aug 2019
  • general
  • programming

  Software engineering jobs are even better than you think

• My Biggest Doubt About Bitcoin

  • 01 Feb 2019
  • bitcoin
  • crypto

  A risk to the cryptocurrency that I don't think people are taking seriously

• Bitcoin Will Be Successfully Attacked

  • 06 Jan 2019
  • bitcoin
  • crypto

  Why I think that the Bitcoin network will eventually be successfully attacked.

• Roth vs Traditional Retirement Accounts

  • 17 Oct 2018
  • investing
  • general
  • javascript
  • finance

  How to determine the optimal mix of retirement accounts for your circumstances.

• An Intro to Causal Reasoning

  • 02 Mar 2018
  • general

  The outline of a guest lecture that I gave on causal reasoning at the Catholic University of America

• Headless ZCash Mining Rig

  • 20 Dec 2017
  • crypto

  The materials, code, and references I used to build a 6-GPU, headless ZCash (ZEC) mining rig this past spring.

• Storing Arbitrary Model Attributes in Rails

  • 16 Jun 2017
  • ruby
  • rails
  • architecture

  Sometimes you might want to have access to an indefinite number of attributes on an object and persist these attributes to a database. Here's how I recently implemented this in Rails.

• Inline Enumerator Messages in Ruby

  • 06 Apr 2017
  • ruby

  A little-known trick to simplify iterating through enumerators.