2025 Christmas List

The wait is over.

Okay, I barely survived this year, but I want to give thanks to the items from last year's Christmas list!

The running shoes were definitely the most used gift. The iPhone case was a close runner up, but we all know how I am with cases.

I will probably have to turn this page into a general gift page because that would save me some time. Problem for next year, right?

Instagram Followers

 Social Media used to be a place for you to see what your friends are up to. For most people, that ship hasn't sailed, but its a kayak on a yacht. When we get on Social Media now you have your friends, yes. You also have creators, businesses, and unrequited connections. All of those things are well and good if you use Social Media in that way. But if you are using it to keep up with your friends something has to change.

Installing Custom Fonts to Kindle

 The typeface that you use plays an outsized, but often unnoticed impact when consuming information. It changes the texture of the material you are reading. It helps guide the eye through the text. If done correctly, can make certain parts of the text stand out, increasing reading cognition. The typeface that I am using is Warbler from David Johnathan Ross.

2024 Christmas List

 Survived Another Year! Honestly All I want for Christmas is time but since you can't buy that directly here is a list of things that will make my life better. Please deviate from this list. Anything is fair game for me expect a bottle of Merlot.

2023 Christmas List

Christmas List Time!

Under-Bed Storage

I built a box! This box also has wheels, and is approximately 3ft width, 4ft length, 1ft height. I looked forward to just buying this on amazon, but could not find something that fitted my needs. So here are my design documents.

2022 Christmas List

A list of items to I think are cool. A good framework for guiding what I would like for Christmas. If you have any suggestions send a comment to my email!

Software Development can be for Pleasure and Profit. I started working on a app for my own amusement. The application is currently called WebSurf. WebSurf is a rethink of social media, in my eyes. The main goal of it is to blend your contact book to personal websites. After that is done you will have the ability to surf the web. Click on a little surf button, and you are taken to one of your friends websites.

Starting Services

Sometimes you need to keep that terrible python server that you have built from my last post running. Or you have a better built server and you want to get up an running. Let me introduce you to the world of services!

Nothing to report, but say hello to Octavia, my doggo. :)

Tired: Wanting to write a new article for your website.

Wired: Wanting to completely rebuild your website for your new article.

Python, Flask, and SQLite

 I am a senior computer science student, so naturally, I will have a senior project class. In said class, we took the prompt of making a mobile application. Involved in that is also creating a backend for it. The team's middle ground language, besides Java, is Python, so that is what we are going with. This is how to set up a bare bones backend in Python.

Uncompressing folders in Swift

 So imagine you need to get multiple files and folders from an API. One option for doing so is to get all the file names and request them from what ever file server you are using. This is terrible don't do this. The optimal way is to bundle the entire directory into a compressed format and distribute that one file. Okay great, say you needed these files in an iOS/iPadOS or MacOS application. That means you will need to decompress the files that you received in swift.

What's new in CoreML

 A transcript of a talk I did at an Underdog Developers iOS Meetup. Discussing the new API features of CoreML. Also giving a general overview of what CoreML is and how it is used.

Started a new job at Rekor. Working as an iOS Engineer.