Caleb's Blog

This March I attended a g0v hackathon. g0v holds these hackathons every 2 months to give the entire g0v community a chance to regularly meet, as well as to allow newbies, such as me, an opportunity to get introduced to g0v and find ways to contribute. g0v…

I published a short video showing off my setup during my two week quarantine in Taiwan.

I hate when I can’t find pricing for shit.

I recently moved to Taiwan on the Gold Card visa, and I’ve lived and worked here before.

If you’re just here to grab some code or use the bookmarklet, these links should help: Unminified Code Oneline Copy/Paste Bookmarklet README Instructions for Using the Bookmarklet Had a crisis of impostor syndrome, wanted to bang out a quick project to see

Covid-19 prevented me from doing a blowout 30th birthday trip, so I bought a watch instead.

Some people are in the phase of life that I was in in late 2015 (recruiter, with liberal arts degree, and a fairly boring future lain before them), and asking how I got from there, to where I am today (full time employed software engineer, making more mon…

TLDR I made a color theme as close as I could to VSCode’s “Default High Contrast” and here is the url: https://github.com/komali2/Emacs-VSCode-Default-High-Contrast As part of this weird “dev optimization” obsession I’ve been having recently, I’ve been me…

You’ve just graduated Hack Reactor, or App Academy, or Galvanize, or some other programming bootcamp.

If you’re using Vue and Vuex and want to perpetuate data between refreshes or when your user closes the session and returns later, a good way to do so without invoking an API is to use localStorage. localStorage is a fairly universal browser API for saving

I have thoughts on this and sometimes people ask me about it, so, should you motorcycle?

The Nintendo Switch is the result of Nintendo fucking around with weird ass consoles for like three generations.

Tammy and I went to Taipei, Taiwan this year.

Over president’s day weekend, Tammy and I were fiending for a trip.

After messing around with all sorts of blog solutions, from my early college days playing around with Blogger (see Ablate, Taipei Tips, and Taiwan Hikes), Wordpress (see Komali Stories, free cringe!)

Several weeks ago I was invited to be a technical leader at Scripted Hackathon.

I was banging my head against the desk trying to figure out why the following code, straight from the Marionette.js docs, wasn’t working: In short, you instantiate a view, and in that instantiation, define a filter function.

Well, to be fair, we won the Sensel challenge at the Developer Week Hackathon.

I really should have posted this sooner, but I’m headed to the Developer Week Hackathon this weekend.

I went through a coding bootcamp, and coming out, one of my greatest weaknesses was a lack of breadth of general technical knowledge.

LinkedIn is the ubiquitous job-search tool recommended by everyone, ever, for a reason - it’s useful.

I went to a coding bootcamp, and then I got hired.

At Electric Imp we use a Backbone / Marionette stack, so when I’m not churning through bugs I do what I can to learn the frameworks.

A month ago, I finished out at Hack Reactor / Makersquare.

I start working at Electric Imp tomorrow.

This weekend I attended the API World Hackathon with Alex, Ben, and Matt.

We’ve hit the final sprint at Makersquare, which means we’ve been plopped into groups of 4 with whom we’ll be coding a magnificent app that will represent the culmination of our last 12 weeks in the program.

Life at Makersquare has fairly normalized.

Week 4 about to end here, incredible really because we’re just about a few weeks away from another incoming group of juniors.

The last 2 months: Scrambling to learn enough Javascript to pass a coding interview so as to get into a coding bootcamp.

In November and December of 2015, I drove a motorcycle from Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) to Hanoi, Vietnam.

I’m back in Houston now.

Hanoi is a tricky place.

Arrived this morning in Hanoi at 6am.

The last two days have been nothing but riding.

Convinced Ana to ride with me from Dalat to NHA Trang.

Chilled in Moi Ne, a beach town, for a bit longer than I expected.

Abandoned Ho Chi Minh city to begin the journey, finally.

I have the most absurd farmer’s tan, a solid red line on both arms.

Day 3 or 2, depending on how I look at it.

I assumed Vietnam would be like the Phillipines - good people and good food, beautiful scenery, but very 3rd world.

I’ve had my busted Galaxy S3 laying around as a sort of backup for a while now, but I figured with all of the insanity I see daily in my Houston commute, it’s time to get some more protection than my overpriced insurance offers (24 year old male driving a…

AIT, so far my best performing stock Now that I’m making tons of money fresh out of college (hah, no), I figured I better put it somewhere where it can go to work.

Allergies can cause a great deal of miseries.

Anki SRS is a powerful learning tool for two reasons.

I came back to the States and almost died of laughter when AT&T offered me a talk/text phone line with 1 gig of data for 60$ a month.

Going to be weird to go home, for sure.

A lot of people ask me how I can afford to live in Asia working 14 hours a week.

Many years ago I went to the theaters with my then-girlfriend to see “I Am Legend.”

Alfred Bester’s “The Stars my Destination” is an old sci-fi novel that I picked up based on the recommendation of reddit.