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The sad truth about the software engineering industry is that the challenges presented in programming interviews and actual day-to-day work couldn’t be more different.

Hey, you scanned my card!

This is one of the very first conversations I had with the OpenAI davinci model, and without prompting, the darkest by far.

Here I’ll discuss a few notable things I learned (that you will probably find useful or relevant to your own career development,) during the year I spent working for Ryan Brandt and Michael Diego on Wise software projects.

I’ve always wanted to, rather than provide the same boring ‘article’ or ’node’ thumbnails, write a script to crawl my content and generate unique thumbnails for each article.

When given the task of standing up an election system for the IEEE uOttawa student chapter, I was faced with a choice: improve the old solution, find another existing solution, or write a new solution from scratch.

As a casual browser of this site, you may have noticed the section at the bottom of each page showing a word count, estimated reading time, and view counter. view counter

I had the privilege of running a workshop at uOttaHack 4 in February of 2021; the video will be edited and uploaded eventually, but for now, I’m publishing this set of notes that I used to guide students through the creation of a small, emotionally sensit…

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Tagged releases with attached builds are great; especially when you don’t need to tag, build, upload, and release it yourself.

This is a test to embed WebVR content on a webpage.

Had my first foray into the wonderful world of userscripts today.

Ever wanted to match your experienced friends in Age of Mythology with little experience?

So, I completed a HackerRank problem this morning to work my brain back into shape for upcoming interviews.

MSP430F5529LP?

Preamble¶ VHDL stands for Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Design Language.

After a conversation with a friend revolving around passing structures to functions, I decided to write a short tutorial on passing structures to functions in three different ways!

Introduction¶ The HC12 CPU is used to teach the CEG3136 class at the University of Ottawa.

Information about me - Ryan Fleck, Computer Engineering, uOttawa ‘21.

IBM shipped all of the North American Extreme Blue interns out to New York City for a few days to present our projects to a panel of executives, to which we had dedicated a summer and no small quantity of blood and sweat.

As an intern at IBM, I was assigned an incredibly high-quality machine: A 2018, 15-inch MacBook Pro with 16 Gigs of DDR4 and the infamous touchbar.

When is a tool more than a tool?

As anybody who has ever spoken to me will know, I hold the writing of authors Aldous Huxley and George Orwell in very high regard.

Exhausted.

Perhaps the most valuable thing I’ve done for myself in recent months is beginning to write daily, about my life and my thoughts, in a critical and introspective way.

SSH keys provide a convenient way to authenticate and interact securely with a git server.

Twelve months.

Xalgorithms¶ The Xalgorthms platform has been designed to support the collaborative maintainance of a global body of rules for trade, commerce and taxes.

With the goal of replacing my questionably-proprietary R, I decided to scrawl a fresh svg in InkScape.

Preamble¶ As the Virtual Reality scene continues to improve, the aging first-gen conceptual headsets are becoming less expensive.

“Happy Hacking”, he said with a smile.

My last 4 months were spent with MNP LLP , a financial firm and technology consultancy.

Tutorial Overview¶ If you’ve ever wanted a personal website; a place to showcase your experiments and opinions, away from pre-configured themes and terribly named domain postfixes, Jekyll , Kramdown , SASS , and Github Pages may be just the tools for you.

Preamble¶ This past weekend, I attended uOttawa’s first MLH1 Hackathon.

VIM is the best programming tool, full stop.

October 23, 2015 I had my last really difficult midterm yesterday- Engineering Mechanics.

September 9th, 2015 A lone guide yells, “Engineers!