Because I like LEGO and because I have some sort of wish to do things the inefficient way in my spare time, I’ve decided to build a LEGO management website similar to Rebrickable. Remarkably similar to Rebrickable. Like, doing much of the same stuff. In particular, I decided I didn’t…

Any excuse for pie is a good excuse. Pi Day, of course, is a great excuse! We like having various cook-offs, food competitions, themed potlucks and the like, so we just added another event with Pi Day. We had pretty good turnout for this event, with everything from a vegan…

I am insane. At least, this is something people commonly tell me. You see, I live in San Jose, like really far south in San Jose, I work in San Francisco, and I commute to the office four days a week. People’s eyes go wide when I tell them the…

I came across an issue while building a Spinner in a JavaFX application. While I was able to insert the UI element in place, it wasn’t getting properly initialized with a SpinnerValueFactory, leading to an inability to set a value for the element (since you have to set the value…

One of our core tenets at Life360 is “Be a Good Person”. This may sound like something basic, something all companies take for granted, but to make this one of the five core values for our employees puts it front and center. We have put a lot of thought into…