Neal Shyam

Whenever you publish new content: videos, blogs, infographics — anything with a unique URL — you want to know if it’s got any juice.

I’m a sucker for great hacks, and after seeing over 230 of them at PennApps X, I really wanted to try something new: hardware hacking.

I’ve been writing about JavaScript & Python a lot.

Today is Git@Me’s first anniversary.

The browser console is an indispensable web development tool.

Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V may be the world’s best-known keyboard shortcuts, but they’re fraught with deceit.

In college, recruiting meant job fairs and shabby suits.

Numbers, like Shakira’s hips, don’t lie.

I’ve been on a client-side kick lately; I publish static blogs with Jekyll, store data in Firebase & local storage, and push metrics to Keen IO.

I like hackathons for two reasons: They facilitate massive creativity in minimal time.

When I was in elementary school, I loved rebus stories.

I’m comfortable running commands and making edits in the console, but I don’t like consuming information that way.

Responsive design is unequivocally cool.

If you’re a modern TV fan like me, you’re probably familiar with supercuts, those cheeky video compilations like “Every explosion in 24” or “Every Danger Zone reference in Archer.”

After watching a few World Cup games at bars, it’s clear to me that polyglots have more fun.

With modal dialogs, every decision is a show-stopper.

Last month, 66.4% of India’s eligible voters cast their ballots in the general election.

A SaaS salesman recently pitched me on an ‘enterprise class’ URL shortener.

Static site generators like Jekyll are rad because they let authors focus on content rather than their CMS.

Today’s open source project has a high potential for abuse, but I hope you’ll take the high road.

The growth hacker’s playbook is heavy on email; the key is to identify the right tool for the job.

Say what you will about their pledge drives, National Public Radio knows open source.

I discovered HackPad a few weeks ago and I’m surprised that it only has three stars on GitHub.

HTML forms are great for logins & e-commerce, but not for lengthy data entry tasks.

Recently, I overheard a designer say “If your app needs a tutorial, your UI/UX is broken.”

I recently switched shells to zsh + oh-my-zsh and I really dig it.

When I first started using Jekyll, the static blog engine behind Git@Me, I was concerned about two things: SEO and comments.

Sharing links via social media is a pretty mundane task, but have you ever wondered how Google & Facebook always know the exact title, summary, and image to display?

As a former book designer and engineer, I’m wary of PDFs.

Augmented Reality (AR) is one of those “just over the horizon” technologies that gets a little closer every year.

I think we’ve reached “peak cloud.”

Have you ever written a JavaScript webapp?

20 years after my first experience with Windows (3.11, for workgroups!)

Despite their shared DNA, (CSS, images, and HTML), email and web design are very different.

During the summer of 1995, I attended Duquesne University’s (now defunct) Multicultural Computer Academy.

I really dig Markdown.

I was digging for under-the-radar JavaScript projects this week when I came upon jquery.textSelect from James M.

This week I discovered Newspaper from Lucas Ou-Yang.

In business school, there’s a theory that bankers shouldn’t be allowed to have computer mice until they master Excel’s numerous keyboard shortcuts.

Last month I wrote about analytics and measuring key metrics instead of everything.

It really bugs me that Google Now and Siri don’t have public voice APIs.

HTML tables really grind my gears.

If server logs could rap, they’d sound a lot like Mike Jones: Back then you didn’t tail me / Now I’m hot you all grep me!

Several weeks ago I started writing apps with Flask and I really dig it, but I’ve had to change how I test and share projects.

Cron is a utility for scheduling console commands.

Before graduate school I worked at Caterpillar’s engine division.

Skip the haunted house this year.

On a boring Sunday afternoon at CMU in 1994, my dad did the most awesome thing ever.

Development is a team effort with a lot of moving parts: UX, front end, back end, wireframes, mockups, testing, etc — you can’t control them all.

Until recently, mobile accelerometer & gyroscope driven actions were fairly device specific & limited to native applications.