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Last summer I started learning Mandarin Chinese.

Overall It went great, I PR’d by 10 minutes!

Sometimes you need to know how fast you need to run to achieve a personal best time.

This site, jeffcarp.com, is written in markdown and uses the Hugo static site generator.

The Pomodoro Technique is method for improving productivity by segmenting work into 25-minute intervals.

Inspired is a great introduction on how to be a Product Manager by Marty Cagan, a former engineer turned product expert.

A bot who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

For the past few years I’ve been summing up my yearly highlights in a blog post.

This book is about two ways of thinking: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset.

The Googleplex at dusk This post unfortunately does not contain a secret skeleton key that will unlock every tricky Software Engineering interview question.

I can’t recommend The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier highly enough for Software Engineers.

大家好，今天我要写一下更多相似的中文话。

No car exhaust fumes.

Imagine you’re an interviewer in a software engineering interview.

I travelled to Sydney in July to work with Chrome folks over there.

On the left: the Feistel Network from the DES cipher, implemented below.

This year I’m trying to start learning Mandarin Chinese.

Yesterday I ran Inside Trail’s China Camp Trail Run, my first trail half.

Hash functions are an extremely versatile tool that you can find nearly everywhere in software engineering.

Hi, I'm Jeff Carpenter, a software engineer living in San Francisco.

I’ve always been interested in Cryptography – the field is a really compelling marriage of beautiful mathematics with critical real-world applications.

I updated the design of my blog and moved it from jeff.is to www.jeffcarp.com.

2019 update: just a heads up, this post is about TensorFlow 1.x.

Hi friends, here’s a quick overview of what I was up to this year.

2020 update: just a heads up, this post is about TensorFlow 1.x.

While in Tokyo for BlinkOn8, a gathering for Blink and Chromium contributors, I gave a talk at a coding school about the security architecture of Chromium.

I went on a 7 day backpacking adventure around Mt.

2016 turned out to be a pretty crappy year, but it wasn’t all terrible.

I gave a talk at the SF Payments Engineers meetup about Web Payments.

Over the past few months I’ve mentioned to friends that I want to learn engineering leadership skills.

Here are the 5 most defining themes of my 2015, in no particular order. 1.

I’ve always been interested in running and looked up to friends who’ve trained for marathons or go running all the time.

I’m not a huge runner but whenever I run I use Strava for GPS tracking.

Inspired by the article Should I read papers?

Recently I thought to myself: fairly frequently I dive into a big JS codebase and need to poke around for a while to get acquainted with the project structure, wouldn’t it be nice if I could have a more visual way of seeing the whole thing to make sense of

Why should you care about syscalls?

Recently I picked up Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love since I like his posts on Quora.

As someone who had never pair programmed before, it was exciting to get thrown into the deep end during my first week at Braintree where engineers pair nearly 100% of the time.

I’m almost pee-my-pants excited to announce that next week I’ll be joining the team at Braintree and Venmo to work on their JavaScript SDK.

On April 24 I gave a talk, Introduction to Angular.js, to the SF HTML5 Live Code meetup group.

This week I learned that there’s nothing quite like signing up to teach something to make you realize you don’t actually know the material all that well.

If you want to jump to the animation in its natural habitat, see it here.

In the past month I’ve diagnosed and fixed a couple particularly pernicious bugs relating to JavaScript quirks in Internet Explorer.

This is an issue that has endlessly tripped me up in JavaScript and I hope this post will help clarify things a bit and hopefully discover a pattern one can use to discern between mutative and non-mutative array methods.

I’ve tried numerous times to start a consistently updated blog.

I’m certainly guilty of being a little to anglo-centric from time to time (pizza is an American food, right?)

Here’s the talk I gave at Pechakucha Waterville my senior year at Colby College.

Yes, it is February and I am back in Maine.

Located in the middle of Tokyo, Tsukiji Fish Market, or tsukiji uchiba (築地市場), is the biggest fish market in the world.

I spent January 2012 Tokyo, Japan interning at a Japanese advertising agency.