I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
I was at a dead end. I’d just sent my $2300 laptop, my Airport basestation,
and a load of stuff to somebody I didn’t know and all I had to show for it was
a bill from Fedex for overnight shipping and a returned cashier’s check.
An eBay scam, a Titanium PowerBook, and a little Law & Order —
Caught: Mac
Addicts to the Rescue.
From Amar: The world’s flags given
letter grades based on originality, design aesthetic, etc. I am,
of course, amazed that Gambia earned the top
spot despite its blatantly colorblindness-insensitive color
palette!
“For the first hour, all the opening doors on the Enterprise are
accompanied by a nice door-opening sound effect stolen from Star Trek.
But by this point in the movie, the Turkish audio engineers have lost
interest. Now whenever someone walks into a room, somebody off camera
makes the sound .swwwsh!. with their mouth two to three seconds after
the door opens.” (Turkish
Star Trek.)
Interesting: Web
Patterns for personal web sites. Some interesting ideas hidden
behind a slightly-trendy exterior (that, is, the fengshui-like
“Patterns” moniker [1 2 2]
“But I’m sorry to read that my online pal Wil Wheaton, who played young
Wesley Crusher for four or five seasons on Star Trek: the Next
Generation, got dissed by his former employers once again. Not only was
his cameo cut from the movie, but–adding insult to injury– he found
out at the last minute that the “premiere” to which he had been invited
was not actually the real premiere at all, but rather the b-list,
no-stars, no-klieg-lights premiere.” [TMW]