Jan 21, 2021Making ARdeck @ WhatTheHackThis past weekend, I participated in a virtual 24-hour iOS hackathon called WhatTheHack. At the conclusion, we created an app called ARdeck, a way to use gestures to control the popular streaming software OBS. It was a lot of fun to get my hands dirty and deliver a functioning…IOS6 min readIOS6 min read
Dec 31, 2020Find your stable groundTake your time, but time’s a-wasting. — One of the guiding principles I learned during my undergraduate is to always try to find your stable ground. To this day, this concept helps me deal with decisions, manage tradeoffs and tame distractions within software engineering — but honestly, it can be applied to anywhere in life. A quick preface While stable…Productivity5 min readProductivity5 min read
Jul 14, 2019The cost of syntactic sugar in GoIn Go, you can express a lot with a little code. You can usually look at small bits of code and get a clear picture of what the program does. …Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
May 28, 2019Hello world!My name is Alex Silver, and I’m a software engineer. Wow, that took a while to type… do you know how hard it is to come up with just one sentence to describe yourself? It’s nearly impossible. I guess the above will do. Anyway, I’m excited to be able to…1 min read1 min read
