Month: April 2020

Pro Type Favicon Game

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The AfterEcon site recently received a minor facelift including a new logo with accompanying favicons. This article walks through advanced, modern favicon configuration. tldr; it’s not just a single file any longer. Steps: For the source image, I simply chose to use an interesting font. I searched Google Fonts for an open font that I … Read more

Pioneer Hackathon Retrospective

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This article describes what I learned during recent hackathon participation. Before I dive in, let me give a shoutout to this great team, and a double-shoutout to Ben Awad for organizing the team: Alex Luong (Twitter, GitHub) Ben Awad (Twitter, GitHub) Radi Huq (Twitter, GitHub) First I’ll describe the hackathon, then I will describe what … Read more

An 8 Week Coding Curriculum

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This article outlines a curriculum that can be used by a senior programmer to mentor and train a learner from scratch. This curriculum is heavily applied with a focus on web development. As of 2020, I recommend learning React for reasons outlined here. I recommend learning SQL over NoSQL for employability reasons. I recommend following … Read more

Deno, Grammarly, and Windows

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This article documents a use case I have for Deno on Windows. It describes what Deno is, why I wanted to use it, some issues I ran into, and how I solved those issues. What is Deno and why use it? Deno is a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. While it is still experimental, … Read more

Contra Flattening the Curve: Epidemiology vs Economics

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This article discusses a major problem with epidemiological models that utilize a fixed value for healthcare system capacity. The problem is that healthcare system capacity isn’t fixed. As in all other economic goods and services, supply increases with demand. Regulators, policymakers, and academics are all too often acting under the assumption of fixed healthcare capacity, … Read more