I am a software engineer and writer based in Toronto, Canada.
🐍 8+ years full-stack software engineering & data science in Python, Javascript, Ruby, and Java
📝 Personal writing: standarderror.substack.com
Technical Writing
PCA, visualized for human beings
Visual intuition for Principal Components Analysis using 3blue1brown's manim
GDA, explained for human beings
Extensions on a high-school level StackOverflow answer
Evidence.dev - Build Your First App
A 10-minute first-steps tutorial for Evidence, a YC-backed business intelligence platform
Evidence.dev - Blog post
The Most Popular Code-based Business Intelligence Tools, Reviewed
Humanities
The Best Kind of Ambition
Nothing wrong with being an Olympic skiier, but the best ambitions go off-piste
On an Olympic ski hill you stand to lose a medal; out in the wilderness, you stand to lose your life.
The Future is the Redo
You'd go back in time and change it, but you can't
The silver lining on the garbage-fire that is regret is this: something mattered enough to make you pay attention for once.
Motorista Studio
A bookable studio, event space, and creative social club in Leaside, Toronto
We feel so ensconced in the expectations and structures of modernity that the idea of living authentically can only be entertained as a joke.
Crushable Club
A private wine tasting club in downtown Toronto
In such an industry, the insane act of actually treating people like people becomes a genuinely viable form of differentiation.