Hi,

I'm a person.

I am currently in my freshman year of college at the University of Pittsburgh, where I plan to study computer science. In my free time, I mostly make Android stuff and websites, but also design things and even occasionally write PHP. Nearly everything that I make is open source under some form of license (my preference is the Apache 2.0), and I usually accept pull requests on all of my projects unless stated otherwise. My resume can be downloaded here.

You can see all of my latest blog posts here.

You can also find a few pictures that I have taken, published under the Creative Commons License, here.

Find me in places.

See my work.

You can find most of my projects here on this site, but I have also worked on a few for some organizations:

DoubleDotLabs We do developer things. HorrificDev A collection of badly made projects that probably shouldn't exist. NervOS Operating System by Double Dot Labs. Based on CyanogenMod 14.

These are my blogs. I usually talk about why I make certain projects, what they are supposed to do, and how they supposedly accomplish it. I do not post often, as it takes quite a while to write these posts, but you may subscribe for updates by entering your email in the form below.

Posts

Pricing Models September 17 2018 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH September 1 2018 Client-Side JavaScript August 19 2018 Attribouter August 17 2018 Hello World July 28 2018

People

I'm great and all, but these people are also pretty great. They have probably helped me out with something at some point in time, or maybe I just find their projects interesting.
Go check out some of their work!

Alex Dueppen I make cool stuff sometimes Aidan Follestad 23. SDX/Android Software Engineer @square. Full stack programmer (Android, web, backend). Motorcycle rider. PC/PS4 Gamer. Rock/metal music. Akshath Jain Android Developer. AI Creator. Avid Netflix Watcher. Alexandre Piveteau Student in Computer Science @ETHZ. Consulting @ Taktil GmbH Alex Lionne This is a person. Andrew Quebe Android/Web Developer | Freshman at IVC | Passionate about everything Tech | Occasional Photographer sure This is a person. Aniket Bhattacharyea This is a person. Chiu-Ki Chan This is a person. Charles Lee This is a person. CrazeeAdil This is a person. Corbin Crutchley Kinda like the man in the yellow hat; only without a hat, or monkey, or really any other resemblance to the man. Daniel Hickman Telegram: https://t.me/danielhickman Darin Menezes Human peter soboyejo 17 // code, skate, cars, and books. Jeremy Jao This is a person. Erik Boesen Summer Research Assistant at MIT Marine Autonomy Lab. President & Programming Captain of @frc1418. GMHS IB Senior. Overuser of the command line. Heinrich Reimer Passionate Android developer. Héctor de Isidro Android @ LolaMarket • Ikey Doherty Hippy At The Helm @ Solus Jackson Hayes Cinematographer & Web Developer // http://jacksonhayes.xyz // [email protected] Jahir Fiquitiva Colombian 🇨🇴 Passionate + Creative Developer 👨🏻‍💻 Remote Mobile Dev @ Vezio, Inc. Jake Wharton This is a person. Jan-Lukas Else This is a person. Jonas Drotleff I and me are always too deep in conversation. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Justin Kruit This is a person. Kosh Sergani I'm a Networking by education & Android developer by choice. Karim Abou Zeid This is a person. Kartik Arora Developer | Drummer | Tech Geek | F1 Enthusiast Kutsan Kaplan This is a person. lyra messier This is a person. Pierre de la Martinière JS developer @ginetta and street photographer. Stupid and arrogant french in my spare time. Matthias Android engineer at adesso mobile solutions. Developer of Imagine for Instagram. Maximilian Keppeler This is a person. 丹ㄥモメ Some days I solve problems, other days I make them but when I can, I go to the beach :sunglasses: Mike Penz This is a person. Sasi Kanth Android and iOS developer @eruvakatech Marlon Jones Programmer, Graphic Designer, and Artist. Co-Founder of @doubledotlabs, and UAB CS/Art Studio student. Patrick Jung Linux, Android and Open-Source enthusiast. RKBDI This is a person. Riccardo Busetti A meticulous guy into software development who aims to write state of the art code to solve real life problems. Rick Clephas This is a person. Saket Narayan A wild developer appeared. silverword This is a person. Thanos Psaridis (Fisherman) This is a person. Chris Bravata This is a person. TheGrayWolf81 This is a person. Tigran Hakobyan Creator of cronhub.io. Software engineer @bufferapp. Previously at @twitter. Tijmen Ennik This is a person. Tim Bremer Mostly on GitLab > https://gitlab.com/timbremer TWellington This is a person. Philippe Loctaux sleep eat code repeat Zac Littleberry I focus on nonprofit, opensource, web based software and develop on Linux. Available for DM on twitter. No mass solicitation pls. Adrien This is a person. Vukašin Anđelković This is a person.

Me, myself, and I

Well, since you must have clicked on a link to the "about" section of my website at some point, that must mean you are genuinely interested in knowing more about me. Gosh, I'm flattered. Well, a bit of history then.

I have always been interested in technology for as long as I can remember. I still have vague memories of watching videos of the humanoid Honda ASIMO robot in awe, back when I was in elementary school, wondering how it worked. I tried to attend a few classes on "coding", but I didn't gain as much from them as I would have liked, mainly because... I can't think of any other way to say this... they were boring. So many programs exist to try and teach middle schools to use scratch or python, claiming that "coding is easy!", and "anyone can write code!", but they couldn't be farther from the truth. Following instructions to make a program that says "Hello World" is easy, but it doesn't teach you anything and doesn't provide any form of an interesting result. Now, I'm not saying that all programming classes are fundamentally flawed - there are quite a few that I have since attended that were quite informative - but nothing like that was available to me at the time. The problem with following instructions when you first start programming is that there are no problems. Since you're following instructions that have already been tried and tested, you know that everything will work properly. There is no design process - testing, problem solving, and finding solutions are all skipped over. So while I did know the basics of python in middle school, I didn't make anything with it. It seemed pointless to me.

I got my first Android device (The Great Samsung Galaxy S2) when I was 13, and started making my first app on it a little over a year later. Because I was a lazy idiot, my first few projects consisted entirely of a WebView linked to a Google Sites page, but I quickly realized the limitations of this method. During the summer break of 2015, I spent hours every day scouring Stack Overflow for examples of how make an android app perform various tasks. This was especially difficult as I had no prior knowledge of the Java language and I'm pretty sure that I didn't even know I was writing Java for the first couple months. My first project was a basic app that took a paragraph as input, and make it 'bigger' by replacing words with longer phrases and/or doubling the amount of spaces between words and sentences in the document. It wasn't long after I finished this that I got my Google Play account and started working on a new app to display a collection of wallpapers made by people I had met on Google Plus.

That app has since been unpublished because it was a complete abomination with the worst code style I have ever seen in my life, and is currently collecting dust at the bottom of my GitHub profile. While making it, however, I managed to improve the app's UX a great deal and learnt a lot about consumer-focused design, making the app's functionality both easy for new users to understand and fast enough for existing users to navigate without feeling like they're wasting time.

Well, that's about all I can think of for an informal description of myself. Ever since I learnt to make Android apps, I've been bouncing around between lots of different types of projects. Some are intended for regular consumers, some for people obsessed with customization, and even a few for other developers like me.

I am currently in my freshman year of college at the University of Pittsburgh trying to figure out what on earth I want to do with my life. That said, I'm still hopelessly addicted to programming, and will keep making anything and everything I can think of in my free time.