So I returned the Dell XPS 13 that I purchased and semi-raved about in one of my previous posts. The replacement laptop I received had another dead pixel! Unbelievable. It's one of those things where once you see it... you just can't... unsee... The return process was pretty seamless, and…
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Michael Hwang
Sending binary data from client-side JavaScript
I ran into an annoying problem with the popular npm request library when trying to send Protocol Buffers to my backend API. More specifically, I'm trying to send a Content-Type of application/x-protobuf with an array of bytes as the body. Using Mikeal's 'request', I keep running into the following…
Dell XPS 13 (Developer Edition) Review
I've survived without a personal laptop for almost two years now (I have a 2014 15" MacBook Pro work laptop), and it seemed like a good time to change that. I just don't feel comfortable working on personal things on my work computer, and only doing personal work on…
Hand Surgery: One-Armed Pudge
I got hand surgery about two and a half weeks ago. The injury happened while I was visiting Humphrey and Ed in Chapel Hill, NC. We played basketball for about three hours straight (afterwards Ed got extremely heed and was sleep-walking/sleep-talking during dinner... ask me or Hump about it…
Sense of humor
During Esther's graduation, I had a conversation with her younger sister, Eunice, that I thought was hilarious. I saw that they had this penguin air freshener on the side of the car, so I asked her what it was. "What's that? *points*" "An air freshener." "…
Recap of May 2015
A lot has happened in the past month. Esther received her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University. Esther's family (parents, sister, paternal grandmother) visited NYC and I attended the graduation with them. Her father also treated everyone out to dinner later that night. I ran in a 5K charity…