Seeing New Things with an Old Set of Eyes
11 May 2021
Visiting an Old “Friend” Project Malama landing page. Recently, I worked on Project Malama in a college web development course. This project is a collaboration between Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI) and the Information and Computer Sciences department at the University...
Meteor
Hawaiian Electric Industries
Full-stack Development
Learning to Wrangle Nutrients Out of Coal
15 May 2020
Even with advanced technology, we still can't control nature. Among the ashes Web development is often overlooked compared to other fields in the tech field. Looking at Glassdoor, a job statistic site, a web developer receives only 68,000 dollars a...
Software Engineering
Agile Project Management
Configuration Management
Repeat after me, Design Patterns Save (Metaphorical) Lives!
30 Apr 2020
Rather than forging the same tools a thousand times, a blacksmith uses a cast. What are design patterns? Design patterns originated in architecture. Christopher Alexander et al abstracted template solutions to common problems that he encountered in his work. This...
Design Patterns
Problem Solving
Community
UI Frameworks, the Source Engine's Accelerated Back Hop of Web Design
27 Feb 2020
Accelerated Back Hopping (ABH) is a speedrunning strategy in which a player turns around and performs backward hops (bunny hopping) to surpass the intended movement speed of Source engine games. This movement is slow and hard to master, but it...
UI Frameworks
Semantic UI
Frontend Design
Too Cool for Coding Rules?
13 Feb 2020
Coming from Atom, IntelliJ feels restrictive. Limitless Possibility One of the best characteristics of programming is its accessibility, where anyone can code in their own way. Each programmer is different in their ability and preferences, and each could develop a...
Coding Standards
IntelliJ
ESLint
An Aspiring Software Engineer's Superhero Origin Story
23 Jan 2020
Pictured: Basically my childhood home. A common dream If someone were to ask what reason made me join the computer science program at the University of Hawaii, I wouldn’t want to answer them. Like many of my peers, I came...
ICS Major
Learning Software