Dillon Shook
Autodidact & Zero One Infinity Advocate
Location Boston, MA
Interests Programming, Photography, Cooking, Game Development, Reading, Guitar, Running, Travel, Never having enough time...
This Site Made with Astro, Cloudinary , and many many hours of writing, styling, editing, breaking things , fixing things, and hoping it all works out.
Education B.S. Computer Science, New Mexico Tech
Contact site at dillonshook dot com
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The Pseudocode Programming Process
November 7th 2024
Learn how to use the Pseudocode Programming Process effectively to write with superpowers.
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~7min read
Why AB Test If You Can ABCD Test?
October 24th 2024
Save yourself lots of time by testing multiple variables at once with an orthogonal (Taguchi) array
801 words
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~4min read
What Do You Visualize While Programming?
October 17th 2024
Thinking about thinking when coding, and the differences in what we see in our minds eye
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~7min read
How Do You Pronounce oklch?
October 11th 2024
There’s a new color specification kid on the CSS block: oklch. In a nutshell it’s a better version of HSL (hue/saturation/lightness) that keeps the perceived lightness of colors consistent as you rotate hues.
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~1min read
2024: A Blog Odyssey from Ghost through Hugo to Astro
October 2nd 2024
Whoohoo! New site is launched! 🎉 Come see the saga this site's been through
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~10min read
What Do You Think 2030 Will Be Like?
September 19th 2024
I want to take a crack at predicting the future half because I think it’ll be fun to look back on this post (hi future self, hope you’re doing well! 👋) and half because I think it’s important to periodically take some time to pause, reflect, and plot your future trajectory. And in order to plot where you’re going it’s helpful to look ahead and see what kind of terrain you’re dealing with.
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~9min read
The Best Software Development Lifecycle
September 12th 2024
How to optimize how your company goes from idea to execution with many steakholders
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~15min read
2024
12 posts
11-07
The Pseudocode Programming Process
10-31
This Post is Cursed
10-24
Why AB Test If You Can ABCD Test?
10-17
What Do You Visualize While Programming?
10-11
How Do You Pronounce oklch?
10-02
2024: A Blog Odyssey from Ghost through Hugo to Astro
09-19
What Do You Think 2030 Will Be Like?
09-12
The Best Software Development Lifecycle
09-05
Change at the Highest Level Is Impossible
08-30
Where Did All the Tech Bloggers Go?
08-13
Failing Upwards Again
02-27
Planned App-solescence
2023
1 post
05-17
Tradeoffs in Testing
2022
3 posts
11-08
Testing Next.JS with Cypress and Mock Service Worker
09-15
What it Takes to Make a Game by Yourself
03-23
What language am I writing again?
2020
4 posts
08-01
How Hard is your Email to Say?
06-30
Your Reach is More Than You Think
05-07
A Critique of React Hooks Addendum
04-27
A Critique of React Hooks
2015
1 post
07-08
The Asynchronous Journey