Essays

An Effortful Estimate

03 May 2026

Coming Up With an Estimate Estimating how much time I needed to complete a task was often very tricky, as sometimes I wouldn’t fully know how to complete the task, so I would spend some time figuring that out which...

Software Engineering Reflection Effort Estimation

Designing Fine Lines of Code

30 Apr 2026

Design in Daily Life In everyday life, design is everywhere. From the chairs you sit on to the dishes you eat from, everything is designed with a purpose in mind. Often times, I forget about these things and take them...

Software Engineering Reflection Design Patterns

Final Project Proposal

31 Mar 2026

Project: UH Gaming Hub Group Members: Tuan Do, John Gabriel Martinez, Ella Self, Mason Vuong, Peyton Young This project idea was collaborately made and may not be the actual project we are creating. Problem Many students at UH play video...

Software Engineering Nextjs

Final Project Idea

31 Mar 2026

Project: UH Gaming Hub Group Members: Tuan Do, John Gabriel Martinez, Ella Self, Mason Vuong, Peyton Young This project idea was collaborately made and may not be the actual project we are creating. Problem Many students at UH play video...

Software Engineering Nextjs

Working with UI Frameworks

26 Feb 2026

Using UI Frameworks I’ve used raw HTML and CSS before to create websites, as that was all I knew. I remember thinking, there must be a better way to do this, and I just trudged through it, not knowing about...

UI Frameworks Reflection

Getting the Hint from ESLint

12 Feb 2026

ESLint Squiggles To me, ESLint has been pretty useful in making my code, as it allows me to have a clear formatting framework which is customizable to my liking. I could definitely see how it would be useful when working...

Reflection Software Engineering

Question your Questions

29 Jan 2026

Asking a question the “smart” way A question I found on StackOverflow that was asked the “smart” way, was this question, which was asked 16 years ago and is one of the most viewed questions on StackOverflow. The person asking...

Questions Answers StackOverflow

Typing Types in TypeScript

21 Jan 2026

Thoughts on TypeScript So far, TypeScript has been a useful language for me. I didn’t know much about JavaScript or TypeScript before, so this was pretty new to me. The syntax was somewhat similar to language likes Java or C,...

TypeScript Reflection

Making something new

20 Jan 2026

Just a Game I’ve always like computers and anything technology related since I was a kid. My parents both have careers in technology, and they introduced me to technology at a young age. I would often sneak to play video...

Software Engineering