Hey! I’m Mason, or @metamas around some parts of the web. Welcome to my blog. That’s really all this is — just the half-baked ramblings of another random tech nerd.
I love building software and learning about computing systems. I have extensive experience as a full-stack web/mobile applications developer, but have become very interested in autonomous systems, machine learning, sensor fusion, and the command and control interfaces that bridge all those together in powerful ways.
Self-reflection
Personal philosophizing, psychobabble, manifestos, and other nonsense.
Do meaningful and interesting work
🔜 Work-life alignment over work-life balance
Robots or bust
On a mission to understand and work with autonomous systems.
RoB #4: Dispatch from the deep learning jungle
RoB #3: Down the deep learning rabbit hole
RoB #2: XPrize Wildfire satellite detection brainstorm
RoB #1: Where to begin?
RoB #0: Robots or Bust
Low-level
Related to RoB (above), I want to master the entire silicon stack and escape the web.
🔜 Notes from CS:APP (Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective)
Side projects
Dev journals on useful tools I’m building for myself.
Stronger #3: slogging through screen designs
Stronger #2: setting up an offline first architecture
Stronger #1: boring (but necessary) auth stuff
Stronger #0: the fitness tracking app I’ve always wanted
Misc. programming
Write-ups and streams from tinkering or quick-n-dirty problem solving sessions.
🔜 Web scraping complex web apps is a huge pain, but also kind of a super power