
Dillon Shook
Autodidact & Zero One Infinity Advocate
Location Boston, MA
Interests Programming, Photography, Cooking, Game Development, Reading, Guitar, Running, Travel, Never having enough time...
Working On fusion energy at CFS
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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Starting is the Hardest Part
December 5th 2024
1K views
Starting a new project is one of the hardest parts of the whole process, at least for me. It feels like getting dropped off in the jungle with a crate full of tools after being used to first world living conditions in a house walking distance from a grocery store. But there's a trick to getting over the hump...
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Starting Something New
November 14th 2024
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I’ve started a new project new this week with the dream of solving one of my own problems, and with any luck, will help a bunch of other people with the same problem along the way.
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The Pseudocode Programming Process
November 7th 2024
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Learn how to use the Pseudocode Programming Process effectively to write with superpowers.
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This Post is Cursed
October 31st 2024
< 1K views
Click if you dare to find the treasure
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Why AB Test If You Can ABCD Test?
October 24th 2024
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Save yourself lots of time by testing multiple variables at once with an orthogonal (Taguchi) array
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What Do You Visualize While Programming?
October 17th 2024
2K views
Thinking about thinking when coding, and the differences in what we see in our minds eye
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How Do You Pronounce oklch?
October 11th 2024
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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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2024: A Blog Odyssey from Ghost through Hugo to Astro
October 2nd 2024
3K views
Whoohoo! New site is launched! 🎉 Come see the saga this site's been through
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2025
8 posts
08-14
Passion Over Profits
05-19
Launching is the Second Hardest Part
04-04
5 Tips for Starting a New Job
03-21
Surprisingly Cheap and Powerful Server Hosting for Indie Devs in 2025
03-06
Sowing the Seed Data
02-20
So What Exactly is MVP Anyways?
01-28
The Second Best Thing You Can Do in Your Career
01-05
Laid Off for the First Time In My Career, and Twice In One Year
2024
14 posts
12-05
Starting is the Hardest Part
11-14
Starting Something New
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