This was originally an interview homework assignment from the company Mapbox. The task was to write a blameless postmortem on some kind of failure I’ve experienced, technical or not. I chose to write about my first sailboat dismasting while racing in Oregon. Date: August 6, 2016 Author(s): Cory Dominguez …

I wrote a service that scrapes data from web comic sites, stores them in a database, and generates RSS feeds. I call it Comic Gator and I made it so that I can have an automated way to replay a comic’s history when I first discover it. While thinking about…

As a backend software engineer I find myself solving a lot of problems with a quick python script. These scripts are mostly unsupported by the ergonomics that I take the time to set up in my long term projects. To solve this I created python.mk, a collection of my favorite…

I spent two weeks in Berlin and made computer art for the first time as part of the Recurse Center’s first pop-up event. This post is a more in-depth look at the process I went through as I tried to build an animation that captures my fascination with the U8…

Berlin Javascript Art This a list of things that I don’t have much experience with. Recently, I got the opportunity to try all three at the same time when the Recurse Center (RC) organized a two-week pop-up event for alumni focused on computer-generated art and hosted in Berlin, Germany…