floverfelt.org
Thoughts, notes, etc.
floverfelt.org
This is the personal website and blog of floverfelt.
This site is intended for my thoughts, projects, ideas, etc. on things I find interesting or am thinking about.
Site Philosophy
I feel like too many personal sites/blogs/etc. attempt to create a faux digital-persona of the author. I’m trying to actively avoid doing that here and as result this site is what I want it to be and represents my ideal for a personal site - simple, evolving, and useful.
That said, I hope you find the content here interesting and valuable as well.
Logistics
I will add new to-do work as “Issues” on my Github. Feel free to contribute or add new suggestions there.
New blog posts will be in the _posts folder. I will post links to all of these in the “Posts” section.
Any external sites that I find valuable I’ll store at the bottom under “Links.”
Currently Active Side Projects
- A Chrome Extension for gratitude journaling: Three Gratitudes
- An Open Source Maven plugin to find and replace text in files: find-and-replace-maven-plugin
- An Open Source Maven plugin to visualize the build pom: pom-visualizer-maven-plugin
Posts
- Test post for messing around with Jekyll
- What are Ben Shapiro & Pod Save America Talking About? An NLP Analysis
- On the Appeal of Virtual Worlds
- Reflections on building gistsecrets.io
- OSRS Botting Math
- The World of Corporate America, February 2021
- Things I Wish I Knew About Software Engineering in College
- Reflections on React
- If you want to make a web app, build a Chrome Extension first
- Reflections on PHP
- Short positions do not have infinite risk
- The World of Corporate America, April 2021
- When is Software Good Enough?
- Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preference?
- Observations around valuing time
- It is your responsibility to respond
- Some thoughts on healthcare tech
- Thoughts on a recent tech interview
- The World of Corporate America: A New Product
- What happens when you hit the front-page of HackerNews
- Against Chess
- Is Medicare a Massive Subsidy for Insurance Companies?
- Thoughts on Angular
- “I learned more from X than I ever did from Y.”
- Dota 2
- Office Experiences
- Revisiting the Basecamp Debacle
- Kotlin: Still not impressed
- A hand-wavy defense of domaining
- Gradle Impressions
Speaker for the Dead: A Complete Analysis
Reviews
- Avernum 3: Ruined World Review
- A Rambly Makebook.io Review
- Reviewing “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work”
- Metro Exodus Review
- The Forest Review
- Hitman 2 Review
- Mass Effect Review
- Mass Effect 2 Review
- Mass Effect 3 Review
- The Outer Wilds Review
- Cyberpunk 2077 Review