https://carterjbastian.github.io/ Recent content on Home Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Carter J. Bastian Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0800 https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/carterlent/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0800 https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/carterlent/ Despite not being Catholic, my father used to practice Lent. I always admired the display of commitment and dedication. One year he gave up ice cream – easily his favorite food - for the 40 days leading up to Good Friday. I was both confused and impressed. Confused that he would give up something he loved for seemingly no reason, but impressed that he had the determination and self control to do it. https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/carter_readme/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0800 https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/carter_readme/ Hi, I’m Carter! If you’re reading this, you’re probably working with me or wondering what it would be like to work with me! The purpose of this doc is to give you some context on what I’m like as a coworker and as a person. This was inspired by the trend of manager READMEs that was floating around hacker news a while back. I’m writing this in the hopes that the trend takes off more broadly – I’d love to have a little guide to the working styles of everyone you work closely with! https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/addition-by-subtraction/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0800 https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/addition-by-subtraction/ Andy: [chuckles] Addition by subtraction. Michael: What does that even mean? That is impossible. Andy: Mmmm. Yeah you’re right. Michael: But, there is some good news. Oscar is back. Addition by addition The Problem with Resolutions I love New Years Eve. It’s my favorite of all holidays! Other holidays celebrate bunnies, or monsters, or the systemic exploitation of indigenous people, or Jesus Christ’s kind-of birthday[1], but not New Years. https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/adr13/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0700 https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/adr13/ [ This article is cross-posted from Khan Academy’s engineering blog. You can see the original here ] The previous posts about The Great Khan Academy Python Refactor of 2017 and Also 2018 answered two questions: why and how did we refactor all of our Python code? In this post, I want to look closer at a major goal of this project: cleaning up dependencies between parts of our Python codebase. https://carterjbastian.github.io/about/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0800 https://carterjbastian.github.io/about/ I’m Carter, and this is my blog. Some of the posts here will be about technical things, and others will be about completely non-technical things that are also (hopefully) interesting (to somebody besides me). Here’s are some facts about me: I have a thing for lists. No, seriously. They’re like, hands down my favorite way to present information. I’m from Spokane, and right now I live in San Francisco. I graduated from Dartmouth’s CS program in 2017. https://carterjbastian.github.io/contact/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0800 https://carterjbastian.github.io/contact/ Feel free to reach out with questions, comments or concerns at carter.bastian1@gmail.com or use the buttons at the top of the site to find me on ~the internet~ Please also feel free to check my work. If I write something that’s wrong or misleading, let me know and I’ll correct it and credit you for helping me find the mistake :) https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/saved-macros/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0800 https://carterjbastian.github.io/post/saved-macros/ Vim macros are neat[1]. The ability to write, store, and repeat arbitrary operations by doing them in the editor once is one of the primary reasons I use vim for (almost) everything I write. Lint errors[2], on the other hand, are not neat. In the project my team has been working at Khan Academy for the past few months, we’ve been doing a lot of code reorganization and moving files around.