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Alex Ellis

Writing about tech, our minds, and how things work.

  • Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
    May. 1, 2022

    Software engineering is cursed with uncertainty. When we’re solving big new problems with software, if the exact problem …

  • Opinionated variable names
    Apr. 17, 2022

    I think a lot about the human part of code, especially the work our brains do when writing and reading it and …

  • What is a minute, really?
    Apr. 10, 2022

    What’s in a minute? It can be sixty long seconds, or it can be just a blink of the eye. Easy ways to slow time down If …

  • The tech interview prep industry
    Apr. 3, 2022

    Before I got into tech, I worked at a tutoring company in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., doing a mix …

  • Keeping a debugging lab notebook
    Mar. 27, 2022

    I like to keep a debugging lab notebook when I’m working through a particularly tricky problem. It’s nothing fancy, just …

  • Detecting pitch with the Web Audio API and autocorrelation
    Mar. 20, 2022

    I’ve been playing with the Web Audio API recently, and I made a basic app that will detect the pitch of incoming tones …

  • I prefer my biographies in chronological order, thank you very much
    Mar. 13, 2022

    Usually, biographies go through someone’s story in roughly chronological order. OK, that’s a little too linear, like a …

  • My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
    Mar. 6, 2022

    I’m declaring defeat. Infinite scroll has won. There is an endless supply of interesting things to consume online, and …

  • I miss easily seeing how my coworkers use tools
    Feb. 27, 2022

    It’s one of the little things I miss about working in-person with other people. Writing software can involve so many …

  • Morse Codle
    Feb. 16, 2022

    This is a game for playing Wordle with Morse Code. JavaScript is needed to run this game. If you don’t have it …

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