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Fresh from the paw of the Tyger

and the thrill of the fight
the struggle, uncle
it’s phenomenal,
nominal—
even comical

bits to bytes
and bugs in prod
got me crying
I ain’t lying
some nights—
I’m still compiling.

What this dumpster needs is another failed app

It was 2021. Spring pollen competed with birdsong to fill the air. Sneezes abounded. We needed to relocate my mom, but were having a …

Feb 28, 2023 13 min read Code, Pseudorandom

OtpTranslate: Migrate from Raivo to Aegis, and beyond

Recently a friend asked me about copying his Raivo OTP database to Aegis. Those are both solid MFA apps. The only problem is Raivo only …

Dec 2, 2022 3 min read Code, Tools

A Tale of Two Alert Schemes

So I built a nice budget app for Android and iOS. A core feature is sending you an alert when a bill is nearly due. Each platform …

Oct 20, 2022 4 min read Code

Connect to an Android Emulator running on Linux from Windows

Once upon a time I needed to connect to an Android emulator running on a Linux box from a Windows virtual machine. Yes, it was very …

Dec 6, 2021 2 min read Tools

Display a QR code on the fly from zsh

You’re typing away at the console in Linux or Mac OS when you suddenly need to display a QR code. There are a lot of dubious …

Aug 17, 2021 2 min read Tools

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Projects

They told me I needed a hobby

So here’s a few projects you may find interesting. Some of these half-baked goods may even be on GitHub .

MISSION: Mom

Learn about the philanthropic raison d’être behind tygertec endeavors — my cool mom

4Ducks Budget

Are your golden ducks in a row? Easy-to-use budgeting sidekick for Android and iOS. Ad-free, privacy focused.

Has my SSN been pwned?

Educational website that aims to help people prevent identity theft

DeployMints

‘OK to ship a code smell, but never OK to ship a breath smell.’ Bit tongue-in-cheek, but you can buy ’em on zazzle .

Learn Hugo

Premium course that teaches Hugo-essentials while migrating away from WordPress

Runby🏃‍♂️Pace

"How hard should you run today?" - A simple static pace calculator using Vue.js."

Ūterpret

Custom Hugo-based website for a Spanish-language interpreter

Pounce

The fast and responsive, open-source Hugo theme I build for the Uterpret website

Featured Publications

From the mind of the Tyger

and the frozen sands
of the hourglass
snapshots of thought
from an instant of time
context fading
yet still…
it depends.

Sep 15, 2018 24 min read Pseudorandom

Stuff Nobody Tells You About Teaching Online

I won’t kid you; the road to course creation is riddled with potholes, roadblocks, and sketchy checkpoints. It was hard. But the solution to each obstacle taught me new skills and valuable life lessons. I think it’s time to document those lessons.

Aug 10, 2018 23 min read Pseudorandom

Run for better code

You’re a programmer, software craftsman, full-stack developer, software engineer. But regardless of the titles dangling from your Twitter bio, if you want to greatly improve the quality of your code and indeed the quality of your life, there’s one more title you should consider tacking on there: “Runner”…

Jan 21, 2017 5 min read Pseudorandom

How to find stuff in Git

When you first started with git, you quickly got up to speed with committing, pushing, pulling, merging, and the like. But then you noticed a gaping hole in your knowledge - how do you find stuff in Git? Can you revert to a version of a file as it stood three weeks ago, or find out when a bug was introduced? Who was the last person to edit this file?

They always tell you that the great thing about Git is that you [almost] never lose any history. So how do you access and utilize that history?