Ins & Outs for 2026

Late last year I was invited by a friend to his ‘Ins & Outs’ party for 2026. The basic premise was that everybody would bring a list or powerpoint of what they believed was going to be “In” (trending or worth doing) in 2026, and what, conversely, would be out.

2026/01/13

personal

Sew Far Sew Good

At the November 2025 edition of the Grow UP! Game Jam, I teamed up with a group of 6 others game devs to build Sew Far Sew Good, my first Game Jam game in over 10 years!

2025/12/21

game-dev

VCBF: 2025 Haiku Invitational

The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival has announced its winners for 2025’s Haiku Invitational. I was excited to see this year I was awarded a “Sakura Award”! Still hoping to win some year 🤞

2025/10/30

writing

10 Years of Building Approach for Android and iOS

Exactly 10 years ago I published the first version of my first solo Android app, the 5 Pin Bowling Companion. A lot has changed over the years, and I continue to maintain it today. Multiple total rewrites, a Kotlin migration, and an iOS release, I’m going to talk a little about the journey this app has been through.

2025/04/01

approach

Development Log, January 2025

December was a month of coding challenges, as I took on Advent of Code, and January was a slow month of vacationing in Uruguay, then reintegrating into the real world.

2025/02/19

dev-log

Development Log, November 2024

This month I wrote a meager 4,251 words for NaNoWriMo, added a few new statistics to the Approach app, and started prepping for Advent of Code.

2024/12/03

dev-log

Development Log, October 2024

This month I attended the Vancouver Writer’s Fest in anticipation of NaNoWriMo, and built some data management tooling for Approach.

2024/10/31

dev-log

VCBF: 2024 Haiku Invitational

This year’s Haiku Invitational for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival has announced its winners.

2024/10/22

writing

Development Log, September 2024

Recently I saw someone else’s dev log and I thought starting my own could be a good learning and reflection opportunity.

2024/09/30

dev-log

2024, Year of the Bird

Each year I like to set some broad intentions I like to fallback on to help me shape the year. I didn’t really share this last year, but I had 2 broad themes for the year in my personal development: Approach, my app for 5 Pin Bowling, and the Squamish 50.

2024/01/08

personal

VCBF: 2023 Haiku Invitational

This year’s Haiku Invitational for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival has announced its winners.

2023/10/22

writing

VCBF: 2022 Haiku Invitational

This year’s Haiku Invitational for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival has announced its winners.

2022/10/22

writing

Looking ahead into 2022

After taking a look back at 2021, I figured it would also be appropriate to consider 2022, and what I’d like to accomplish in this upcoming year. I have some loose goals, some personal challenges, and hopefully a fun year to look forward to.

2022/01/06

personal

A Review of 2021

Before I take a look forward into 2022, I’d like to take a look back at 2021. Here’s some thoughts on things I built, movies I watched, books I read, and other stuff I did.

2022/01/05

personal

Solving 13 Clues: Part 1, Modeling the game

This series details how I built a solver for the game of 13 Clues. From modeling the game, to the various solver approaches, and discovering the ideal move each turn.

2021/09/03

board-games

The Grouse Grind: First Attempt

This past weekend, I tackled a challenge I’ve had for a while: attempting the Grouse Grind. For those unaware, the Grouse Grind is a hike up Grouse Mountain, a mountain at the northern edge of North Vancouver. According to their website:

2021/08/10

personal

Creating the Hive Mind: Writing a Hive Engine

This post is the 1st post in my series Creating the Hive Mind: Building an AI for the board game Hive. If you’re unfamiliar with the topic, start at the beginning and work your way through. Feel free to reach out to me on Mastodon if you need any clarification or have any suggestions!

2021/05/01

hive-mind

Creating the Hive Mind: Building an AI for the board game Hive

At the start of 2018, I introduced my team at work to the board game, Hive, which they quickly became enamoured with. If you don’t know anything about Hive, the gist is that it’s a 2 player game where players use pieces that move around the board in unique ways to try to surround their opponent’s queen bee. If you need some additional context, or want to fully learn the rules of the game, it’s on BoardGameGeek.

2021/05/01

hive-mind

Race Report: 10K Covid Time Trial

Race Information

2020/10/07

running

New Keyboard, Who Dis?

Last week my new keyboard arrived: the Ergodox. I was interested in picking up a mechanical keyboard and after doing some research on which ones would be compatible with macOS, I settled on the Ergodox.

2020/09/02

personal

Returning to Canada After 8 Months in Stockholm

Last week was the end of my 1 year assignment with Shopify in their Stockholm office, cut a little short thanks to COVID-19. I’d like to share my thoughts on the experience, how living and working abroad for a year went, and why I’ve decided to come home now.

2020/06/03

travel

Google IO Vs WWDC: My Thoughts and Experiences

This year I had the opportunity to attend both Google IO and WWDC, the developer-centric events hosted by Google and Apple respectively each year in Silicon Valley.

2018/06/09

conference

Saving Space Penguins at CS Games 2018

This past weekend the annual CS Games event took place in Quebec City, hosted by Université Laval. I didn’t originally plan on attending, but am very thankful a friend convinced me to pick up a ticket a month ago!

2018/03/27

conference

DemoCamp at CUSEC '17

Last Wednesday night I arrived in Montreal, Quebec for the 16th annual Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, or CUSEC. Over the course of the three days, I listened to a number of compelling and enlightening talks, on the ins and outs of vector rasterization, and the social responsibilities we have as software developers.

2017/01/15

approach