I'm Alexander

Today I learned about a new rounding mode and I think it's pretty great. It's called half-even.

LLMs can help us become a jack of all trades, but mastery still takes hard work and real experience.

Preparing to lead my first engineering interviews, I gathered the most useful practical advice I could find.

Early in my career I leaned on senior engineers too quickly. They taught me to pause and try more on my own, a habit AI might not teach the next generation.

Getting better at programming by practicing more deliberately, not just shipping.

On getting frustrated more easily at work, and how actually getting to know people helps.

Building keylightctl, a small CLI tool to control my Elgato Key Light Airs from the terminal.

An adapted version of my lightning talk on why we should invest time in truly understanding our development tools.

How to break the Lord of the Rings extended editions into episodes for a more watchable TV-series experience.

Manual for the NuPhy Air60, a wireless 60% mechanical keyboard with RGB backlight.

Manual for the Vortex Race 3, nearly as compact as a 60% board but with close to a TKL's key count.

Borealis is a dark VSCode theme built on shades of teal with yellow as its main contrast color.

How to create an AJAX form in PHP with Google reCAPTCHA.

How to connect a Raspberry Pi 3 to the UAlaska network.

How to set up eduroam on a Linux machine running the KDE environment.

How I configured my laptop to dualboot Manjaro and Windows 10.