About

I am Jason Scheirer, a completely unremarkable software developer in the Bay Area initially from the Inland Empire. A rough timeline of my life as a software engineer:

  • Start programming BASIC in elementary school, escalating to pirated QuickBasic and Turbo Pascal, as well as legal but squirrely DJGPP/RHIDE/Allegro
  • Get a part-time job in late high school writing “web applications”
  • Get bored in intro CS classes and change majors to Linguistics
  • Decide that taking a mere full courseload is for suckers who like sleep and good grades and work 30 hrs/wk to pay tuition and take night classes to teach English at the same time
  • Backpedal and get as much CS coursework done as possible before hitting the unit limit for graduation, managing to squeeze in the minor just in time
  • List about from company to company in SoCal writing software for 10 years, mostly Python/C, mostly geospatial adjacent
  • Move to Bay Area and list about from startup to startup writing software, mostly Python

A rough timeline of my entire life, including the future:

  • Born
  • Childhood
  • Early adulthood
  • Adulthood
  • Writing bullet points in a text editor
  • (Speculative) Dead

The theme for this weblog is a fork of smol, built in Hugo, and hosted on Github Pages through the magic of a CNAME. I’m using Inter and Berkeley Mono (hosted here and not on Google Fonts) so my indulgence of picking custom type shouldn’t hurt the load times of the pages as much as it could (or spy on you).

For diagrams and artwork I use Monodraw and an older version of Xara Photo and Graphic Designer. Sometimes The Gimp and Graphviz come along for the party, too.

I do not have any sort of analytics on this page. I have no idea what my traffic or “engagement” stats look like. I could be getting 1 hit a month, I could be getting 100000 hits a day on some single blog post. I honestly have no idea and it’s not something I want to think about.

There’s also no Javascript on this page. I can’t justify “enhancing” the “experience” of viewing words on a screen with some stupid runtime-in-the-browser trickery.

(Late 2022 update: Javascript exists, where necessary, for “functional” pages like to display games but not for content load or navigation UI trickery.)

If I can ask you but one favor, it is this: if you like the site, tell immediate friends and subscribe to it in your favorite RSS reader. I do not write to provide Internet Brain Geniuses with material to fractally complain about to feel better about themselves on Social Media. I would rather those people not know I exist. Please only share these posts on places where the comments section do not devolve into utter idiocy.

If this site provides you with value, great. If not, keep in mind I owe you nothing.