Golly Gosh Moments

You know that time you realized that you have been doing something the wrong way for a very long time and then finally realize the wrongness. For the sake of the low profanity rating of this blog, let’s call these golly gosh moments, although the Millennials might better understand #FML. Homer just says do’h. So… Continue reading Golly Gosh Moments

Golang and the search of the past

This post is mostly a status of what I have been up to here at the nearly-almost-half-year mark of 2016. Introducing Product Search By the end of 2015, we had already been using Elasticsearch for a while. It was the first part of a long-term strategy of moving data away from Google App Engine. Event… Continue reading Golang and the search of the past

Photo Amaze

About a month ago, I attended the wedding of a childhood friend. Since I have had some extra free time lately, I came up with an idea of combining my interest in 3D with an app that could be used for the wedding. The result was Photo Maze, a 3D maze where the guests at… Continue reading Photo Amaze

The Notepad trick

There is a good reason Notepad has survived through all iterations of Windows. It is the best tool for clearing formatting! For example, copying text from a webpage to Word will often keep the formatting (color, size and so on) but copying it to Notepad first and then re-copying it to the other editor clears… Continue reading The Notepad trick