(Michael Chinen)

Author: mchinen

2014 projects

It’s been a while since I posted an actual project I’m working on. Since I started working full time for Apportable, I’ll admit there is less time to work on projects, but that’s really no excuse. In addition, as the new year merits such reflection, I’ve been thinking about why I didn’t ship anything last […]

Cisco AnyConnect VPN problems on android:

I’ve been using cisco VPN on android. It works pretty well, but sometimes, I would run into an issue where DNS wouldn’t resolve while connected (e.g. google.com fails to load in chrome and says DNS host lookup fail). This would happen and leave me out of luck for a week for that device. The internet, […]

i used to be a programmer

Yesterday I was at Owl & Company over on Piedmont Ave in Oakland and came across an interesting read by complete chance. It is a book of poetry and narrative of archy, who was a roach in 1920, and before that, a free verse poet. Archy hops from key to key on a typewriter leaving […]

Here’s my .emacs file in all its unedited glory. May it be a light in your time of google searching or a darkness in your time of trying to understand how to configure emacs. It’s also in a gist. It’s a franken.emacs from lots of sources on the net. I’ve forgot them all, but almost […]

pop quiz: why are my parameters zero when I pass them in with non-zero values

This one had me stuck for a number of minutes. It’s not hard, but it got me. See if you can spot it: say you create a new class that is inited like so: @interface YoDogWhatsWrong @property (nonatomic) float aValue; @end @implementation YoDogWhatsWrong – (id)initWithAValue:(float)aFloat anotherValue:(float)someOtherValue { if ((self = [super init])) { self.aValue = […]

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