Things To Think About

I’m about 8 days away from finishing my last final exam at the University of Waterloo. Over the past few weeks I’ve often been asked, “what do you plan on doing after graduation?” I usually respond with some combination of “travelling, living in Toronto...

The other day, I was watching Ted Ed’s collection of YouTube videos on riddles and came across this interesting logic puzzle described as “Einstein’s Riddle”. Einstein probably didn’t make up the riddle, but the problem itself is kind of interesting...

Let’s take a look at a problem. We have a webapp to track build times for a continuous integration (CI) server. The main page has an HTML table with dozens of rows (one row for each build) and each row has an entry for the creation time of the build...

I spent the better half of today debugging one of my current projects, an Android app designed to help users do things on their phone faster. Vague, I know.
The issue at hand was a java.lang.IllegalStateException resulting from a fragment not being attached to its activity. Reproducing the bug was easy. Launch the app, search for a YouTube video, back out of the app, and search for another YouTube video...