2023
USC ITE ATSAC Tour Foreword: This is a brief blurb I drafted and published for the University of Southern California's Institute of Transportation Engineers chapter (USC ITE / ITE USC). We toured the Los Angeles Department of…
On SoCal Linux Expo (SCaLE) 20x As the conclusion to my 3 weekend conference marathon, including the IISE Western Conference and ITE Student Leadership Summit, I attended the 20th Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 20x) in Pasadena, CA. It's a huge…
Lessons from the ITE Student Leadership Summit For several months, I was part of the Student Leadership Summit (SLS) planning team with USC's chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), a professional organization for transportation planners…
IISE Western Conference at Cal Poly This past weekend (March 3-5), I had the pleasure and fortune of attending the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers' Western Regional Conference, hosted by Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA. As the name might…
Hosting a GlobalPing Probe I recently found out about GlobalPing from a post on a web development forum that I frequent. It's a service created by the same people that made jsDelivr, the super popular CDN for NPM packages. It allows users to…
2022
US Transit Fare Media You Can Order Online For some reason, I have a collection of various public transit fare media - mostly smartcards issued by US transit operators. Take a look: (Mostly LA Metro TAP cards of varying designs!) How many agencies do you…
LAX to USC on public transit Los Angeles isn't exactly known for its outstanding public transit, but I also don't think transit in LA is as bad as many say it is. In fact, I'd say it's pretty underrated -- so I decided to make the journey from LAX…
Canadian bank accounts for non-residents I recently needed a Canadian bank account to complete a Government bureaucratic procedure. As a Canadian I thought it would be a pretty trivial process, despite being a nonresident. Little did I know how wrong I would…
Elaborate Roblox "3D Model" Scam Attempt Recently I received an interesting DM from a random user on Discord. Somehow the user found my Roblox username and offered me 8000 Robux for "[using] my avatar as the main character in a thumbnail design [they're]…
Offline-first PWA with Svelte & Vite I've always been a big fan of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). They offer app-like functionality without the development / labor overhead that comes with building a traditional app. Plus, I don't need to learn new toolsets…
