Jason Scheirer
Jason Scheirer
Jason Scheirer
Hi, I’m Jason Scheirer. I’m a professional programmer and in my free time I’m a hobbyist programmer. I write games, I make little web toys, I talk about the passage of time. If you’re quiet on a summer’s day you can hear me whispering about JavaScript on the cool breeze.
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So it’s 2021 and about the entirety of my job is integrating third party systems with internal ones, which then reach out to other third-party services. A lot of stuff uses SFTP still. In this day and age anything not on HTTP seems...
This was initially a blog post I wrote on my employer’s internal system, but it’s interestingly useful and it doesn’t contain any trade secrets so I figure I’ll share. A common pattern that seems obvious when you need to shuttle data...
I’ve been using the Rectangle window manager for mac for the last couple of weeks and it’s been the most helpful thing since Mission Control (and setting up a hot corner to activate it). I’ve tried to use full tiling managers before but...
I moved to the Bay Area 6 years ago after stubbornly refusing to for over a decade before because I wanted to be in the middle of the world of software. 2020 made some of that luster wear off. Our office closed at the end of March, 2020,...
As the parent of an almost three year old, I don’t get much time to myself, and I’ve given up on video games that don’t have playtimes under 15 minutes (that discounts anything with load times or cutscenes). In my spare time I have to...
So I bought that dang Chromebook over three years ago at this point and it keeps chugging on. Google has continued to ship OS updates (which I only notice as weird, arbitrary UI changes) and I can still use it to code but its main...
February 8th marks the fifth anniversary of me moving to the Bay Area to work for tech startups. In retrospect it’s been a great experience despite it being the Bay Area. Culture Living in the Inland Empire, I was an hour away from LA...
I’ve been sharecropping on Amazon’s server farms since I moved to the Bay Area 5 years ago. That is, every startup I’ve worked for has utilized AWS (and sometimes GCP or Azure in addition). This started out great for my career because I...
I should probably start blogging again.
I gave a short (~10) minute talk on preparing to move to microservices at the Python meetup in San Francisco. The main points: We all start out with a monolith The monolith never fully goes away That’s fine Scope out a new project to...
I wrote a handful of different things on my paternity leave, but one of the more interesting ones was this small TIC-80 game where you play a bear. <a href="https://jasonbot.itch.io/jumpbear">Play Jumpbear: The Global Warming Bear on...
This is a recycled post from my tumblr weblog Ha ha ha just lying the real title should be Turning a Piece of Shit Chromebook into a Good Enough Development Machine Because You’re Unemployed and Feel Like An Ass Trying to Justify...
This is a recycled post from my tumblr weblog. I’ve since had three other jobs, but a lot of what I like still rings true 5 years later in 2020. Please note I am contractually prohibited from saying what I don’t like about most of my...
I have a stupid json-only REST API I implemented in bottle.py. This introspects the default app, gives a dumb readout that should act as an adequate reference for discovery: @bottle.route('/') def index(): bottle.response.content_type =...
For as much shit as I like to talk about C++, I sure can get a lot done quite efficiently in it. I read an interview with Bjarne a while back and he said C++’s most important feature was destructors. After thinking about it, yeah, they...