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.
Latest Posts
SFTP is still around and that's OK
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...
You Don't Need to Make That Temporary File, Dude
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...
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...
The 2020s and the Post-Office World
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...
Pinebook Pro: The Tinkering Laptop
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...
My Dingus Chromebook still works
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...
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....
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...
Python Meetup Talk - 2019-10-09
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...
Jumpbear: the Global Warming Bear
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...
Turn a Chromebook into the ULTIMATE GOLANG/PYTHON DEVELOPER MACHINE
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...
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...
Stupid simple API reference for bottle.py web services
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:...
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...