Cyrus's Internet Journal

Some personal news: I've accepted an offer to join Ramp as a Staff Software Engineer.

This probably sounds a bit crazy.

Given a uniformly distributed random-number-generating function, f(), how can you transform it into a function with a bimodal distribution, g()?

Author's note: this stream-of-consciousness journal entry has not been through the editing cycle I try to apply to posts.

Have you ever wondered how mail clients work under the hood?

This post is about saving money on hobby projects, by scraping the bottom of the barrel with what your cloud provider offers.

Of all the skills to learn on the job, onboarding quickly is possibly the most underrated.

Earlier this week, I hit Hacker News's frontpage with a technical magic trick.

Oftentimes, it feels like we overengineer the solutions we build.

Do you know how some kids want to be teachers when they grow up?

(This post originally published on Tandem's blog) What’s the piece of technology that reduced your headache the most in the last year?

I don't know.

My parents live in a fairly rural area of Texas.

Most task managers make two assumptions.

Fiddling with monitors is annoying.

Having a home server has many benefits: Spotify-connected speakers 🔈 wifi printing 🖨 automated laptop backups over wifi 💿 and more!

I used to find writing for a public audience to be a taxing process.

This weekend at HackPrinceton, my teammate Benny Yan and I made a prizewinning electronic banjo.

At this Spring's HackPrinceton, my friend AK and I built a fast and efficient 3d scanner out of spare parts.

So you're a beginner to either hackathons or hardware hacking, and you're not sure what to bring?

This isn't just for people who haven't gone to hackathons before, but also for people who went to one and had an underwhelming experience.

Here's my first post on here.