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, so instead also add working 30 hrs/wk to pay tuition and taking night classes to teach English at the same time
  • 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/C++, mostly geospatial adjacent
  • Move to Bay Area and list about from startup to startup writing software for 10 years, mostly Python/Go/Ruby, mostly social adjacent

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

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

See my /uses page for more information about my things.

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.)

(Early 2025 update: Javascript exists on pages with mermaid codeblocks to convert them to SVG inline. Still no deep tricks, though.

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.