Jonathan Yu's Blog The Astonishing Color of Now April 22, 2018 Book review - spoilers Writing March 18, 2018 Reflecting on writing American Panda February 18, 2018 Book review - spoilers Leftover Women February 17, 2018 Book review 2017's Best Reads December 26, 2017 Book review Last Jedi - Spoiler Review December 14, 2017 Movie review with Spoilers Watership Down December 13, 2017 Book review The Fate of Rome December 05, 2017 Book review The Man from the Train November 23, 2017 Book review Figuring out what now November 21, 2017 When the mind races too fast A System Apart November 21, 2017 Hong Kong Debugging a Mystery Refresh Feature on Electron and React October 30, 2017 DraftJS and more Building HackerJobs October 28, 2017 A Diary, Day 5 Building HackerJobs October 25, 2017 A Diary, Day 3 Building HackerJobs October 22, 2017 A Diary Projects in Middle of Projects October 19, 2017 Preventing Burnout I don’t think you should go to concerts anymore October 04, 2017 A realization of the times Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom September 16, 2017 A Book Review Running it Back August 26, 2017 Reflections Being Prolific August 21, 2017 Reflections Writing More August 17, 2017 A New Daily Process Listening August 13, 2017 Advice I’d Give Myself Silence July 30, 2017 A Movie Review, with Spoilers Civil War, No.2 June 19, 2017 A Book Review American War May 08, 2017 A Book Review Your Name April 16, 2017 An Anime Review. Spoilers. Yilan County Taiwan April 03, 2017 A smaller town Scaling Down Our Expectations March 27, 2017 From 19 to 29 Sapiens March 18, 2017 A Book Review Burning Out March 12, 2017 Burning Into Ash Thoughts About Singapore February 15, 2017 On my third trip there How I Read February 06, 2017 #How I readI read a great article earlier that asked bloggers about their reading process. I loved this of course and... Emperor of Maladies Book Review January 31, 2017 Thoughts on a biography of cancer Top Books of 2016 January 28, 2017 My favorite reads of 2016 Thoughts on 29 January 14, 2017 Reflecting on 28 and 30 Master of the Senate December 30, 2016 A Book Review Passage of Power December 18, 2016 A Book Review Presidential Thoughts November 24, 2016 Eat Bird Day Presidential Thoughts November 09, 2016 The Morning After La La Land October 26, 2016 A Movie Review Shin Godzilla October 12, 2016 A Movie Review Deaths End October 12, 2016 A Book Review The Great Partition October 07, 2016 A Book Review Finding Mr Right September 27, 2016 A Movie Review Codecasting React Native August 28, 2016 FeedReader and JumpShot3 Tales of Uber Drivers August 19, 2016 (And They're Mostly All Men) Reflect on 28 and a Half August 13, 2016 A message to future Jonathan IRAs and 401Ks July 29, 2016 In Which I Talk About Personal Financey Stuff Su Shi In the National Palace Museum July 04, 2016 I had a moment while staring at a piece of paper Machine Learning and Money Laundering June 27, 2016 Scattered Thoughts on Asia: Public Transportation June 01, 2016 1 Month in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore Thoughts on Asia: Architecture May 30, 2016 1 Month in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore Thoughts on Asia: Food May 29, 2016 1 Month in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore Thoughts on Being Mortal May 18, 2016 A Five Star Review Handling XLSX Files Natively May 13, 2016 Orbiting the Electron Jumbled Thoughts on Tech in China May 06, 2016 Jumbled Thoughts on China Tech Things I Think I Think About Japan May 01, 2016 16 Days in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hakone, and Tokyo Direct Response Principles Demonstrated in Japanese Vending Machines April 26, 2016 Cross-Cultural Marketing The Throne: A Review April 11, 2016 Thoughts on Fatherhood. 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A Dirty Swift Curriculum April 07, 2016 For More Intermediate iOS Programmers Introducing CollegeScan March 01, 2016 A Client for the College Scorecard API Things I Think I Think About Austin February 20, 2016 7 Days in Austin and Fort Worth What's Left February 17, 2016 World Traveler Converting to ASyncDisplayKit February 07, 2016 Plug and Play on ASDK My 5 Favorite Articles of 2015 January 24, 2016 2015 Meaning Stuff I Read In 2015 Reflecting on 27 January 22, 2016 And Moving On to 28 For Yourself and Not For Others December 19, 2015 Working for Ourselves Things I Think I Think About Singapore December 06, 2015 7 Days in Singapore Things I Think I Think About Dallas Y'all November 14, 2015 5 Hours in Dallas Things I Think About A Little Life November 08, 2015 A Non-Spoilers Review Running in the Rain November 02, 2015 Thoughts on One of My Weird Habits RedditTV October 18, 2015 Failed TV App and Thoughts on tvOS Introducing ThunderFonts October 07, 2015 Gifs, Fonts, Colors! 9 Articles To Move You August 30, 2015 Reading that makes you feel goddamn alive Introducing HakkerJobs August 16, 2015 A Better Way to Browse Startup Jobs A Half Year In Books August 11, 2015 20 books Read. Recommending my favorites. Jobs Cliche Cartoons With Animals In Them August 05, 2015 My sister drew these. Things I Think I Think About New York City July 31, 2015 A Californian Writes About the Big Apple Seeing the Murals of Williamsburg July 28, 2015 A Stunning Sight What's On My iPhone Screen? July 19, 2015 Apps, I mean. The Thing Everyone Has In Common July 05, 2015 We are one. Three Meals In Taiwan June 30, 2015 Food is food, right? Even if it comes late? Things I Think About Inside Out June 22, 2015 Spoiler Warning. Watch the movie first. Introducing JumpShot 1.5 June 07, 2015 A finished post about an unfinished app A Trip to Houtong Cat Village May 25, 2015 Stunning Beauty. Adorable Cats. Things I Think About Taiwan May 22, 2015 A Half-Taiwanese American Writes About His Half-Homeland 2 Years of Blogging May 13, 2015 Two years huh? Thinking About The National Geographic, Dated 1941 May 02, 2015 I am down in Southern California for the weekend and asides from the suffocating heat, the thing that I am most able ... Review: Becoming Steve Jobs April 05, 2015 Patience and Focus The Anatomy of a Stupid 4-Hour iOS App Bug March 31, 2015 Also known as why I am the stupidest coder in the world. The Five Year Plan March 25, 2015 I turned 27 years old 2 months ago. I have been taking some time to think about what that means. Previously, it had m... Lasik March 11, 2015 What was it like? Let's Talk About Money Part 1 March 03, 2015 Thoughts on what to do with your money Creating A Technical Resume March 01, 2015 Starting over all over again. Building a FB Ads Dashboard with Rails December 14, 2014 Working with Rails and the Facebook Ads API Sifting and Sorting 560,000 Emails Without Excel October 16, 2014 Taking Excel Spreadsheet Work To A Whole New Level Achieving Data Persistence in RubyMotion and XCode August 02, 2014 Working with MotionModel, NanoStore, Realm and avoiding Core Data Three Things About People September 11, 2013 Focus. Communication. Pragmatism. Some Thoughtful 'Quotes' September 04, 2013 I wanted to share some quotes that I really liked and why. That time I lost $12,000 options trading August 28, 2013 A self examination of an expensive personal failure Looking Over 6 Years Of Resume Evolution August 25, 2013 7,000 words on the changes of a resume from 2007 to 2013 Looking Back on App Academy August 22, 2013 Thinking about 9 weeks spent learning how to code. Anime Review: Kotonoha no Niwa August 18, 2013 Stunningly beautiful story of two lonely people. Making SEC Research with RubyMotion August 16, 2013 Writing an iPad App with Rubymotion. My experience. A Pretty Good Investment: VYM August 15, 2013 In where I hawk a stock. Attack on Titan Episode 18 August 14, 2013 Anatomy of an action scene. There will be spoilers. Apple in 2013 August 11, 2013 Thoughts on Apple since 'Apple and Samsung: A Love Story'. Elysium August 10, 2013 I Went to See Elysium and I Had Thoughts. There will be spoilers. Anime Review: Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo August 04, 2013 A good show that is a lot more than it seemed to be at first Integrating With Craigslist July 11, 2013 Creating a formRene and I had talked about one of the challenges of creating a rental form collection product would b... Fleshing Out Form July 10, 2013 Fleshing out a Powerful Client Side FormI have created a few forms before for Rails and I have played around with Bac... Near The End July 08, 2013 Final ProjectsToday some people decided that it would make more sense to continue working on their final projects. So... Tightening Up July 05, 2013 Final ProjectsIn today’s chronicle, Jonathan spends time cleaning up and tightening the screws on PerfectPerusals. I ... More Things July 04, 2013 Creating Perfect Perusals (Not this blog)For the first half of my two final projects, I decided to create a clone of ... Creating Pp July 03, 2013 Final ProjectsToday I spent more time on building up more features of PerfectPerusals, with the significant feature b... Deploying Pp July 02, 2013 Final ProjectsToday I spent more time on building up more features of PerfectPerusals, with the significant feature b... Creating Pp July 01, 2013 Final ProjectsToday I spent more time on building up more features of PerfectPerusals, with the significant feature b... Discussion June 28, 2013 Talking with NedToday we spent the morning in lecture as Ned talked to us about the ins and outs of finding work in t... Newsreader June 27, 2013 News ReaderToday is a solo project and it is the first Rails and Backbone app that I have built yet that features som... Backbone 101 June 26, 2013 Backbone 101Today, we worked for the first time on backbone. It was the first time that we were allowed to use many t... Picture Tagger June 25, 2013 Picture TaggerToday we continued with our big JavaScript project PictureTagger, which emulates the functionality of F... Threedo June 21, 2013 Three-DoToday was a solo day and it was a great opportunity to go and exercise a broad spectrum of our skills by crea... Return Of Rails June 20, 2013 Return of RailsToday we spent the majority of our time working on a big extensive app and for the first time in a wee... Snakey June 19, 2013 SnakeyThis is going to be a quick post because I have to do some work right now. The homework tonight is to go and wr... Javascript June 17, 2013 JavaScriptToday was supposed to be a solo day where we spent time working on two projects. Instead, it turned into pa... Twodoo June 13, 2013 TwoDoTwoDoo - A to-do app that is the project for AA W5D4Today we had two projects. The first one was an online newsp... Reddit Clone June 12, 2013 Reddit CloneToday we worked on creating a clone of Reddit. I found this very interesting because I never was a big Re... Social Thing June 11, 2013 Social ThingToday we delved deeper into some of the details involved with routes and other portions of building rails... Rails Lite3 June 10, 2013 Rails Lite ContinuedToday we continued our Rails lite project and spend extensive time building through some of the m... Rails Lite2 June 07, 2013 Rails Lite ContinuedToday we worked on recreating Rails. The idea is to build on the ActiveRecord work that we did la... Musictagger June 06, 2013 Music TaggerToday we went and worked on one of the most difficult rails projects that we ever had. The idea is to bui... 99cats June 05, 2013 99 CatsToday we spent our time working on an extensive rails app for the first time, taking in all parts of the MVC f... Apis June 04, 2013 APIsIf yesterday we spent time looking at and using an API - a great one at that with the Twitter API - today we spen... Api Introduction June 03, 2013 API IntroductionToday during class we got our first introduction to the web and web programming as well as working wi... Metaprogramming May 31, 2013 Meta Programming?On this fine day we spent our time working on metaprogramming, something that we were supposed to hi... Associations May 30, 2013 Exploration of RailsToday we continued with our exploration of Rails. Today we spent time on stuff like associations ... Activerecord May 29, 2013 First Day of ActiveRecordToday is our first day with ActiveRecord, which is one of the core parts of Ruby on Rails. L... Activerecord Foundations May 28, 2013 ActiveRecord FoundationsHello again to my thousands of incredible loving fans! Hah. That was a real riot of a joke. W... Tdd May 26, 2013 TDDToday and yesterday we spent time working on the poker project, the assessment 02 practice, and learning SQL queri... Solo Checkers May 23, 2013 Solo CheckersToday was a solo project where we all spent time on our own creating a checkers program. We had been ver... Big Chess May 22, 2013 Big Chess 2Today we continued to work on the Big Chess Project in our pairs. Even though I felt like we had made asto... Yaml May 20, 2013 YAMLThe lesson today involved opening and closing files and serialization of data to file formats like YAML (Yet Anot... Word Chains May 19, 2013 Word ChainsToday in Day 6 I took the practice assessment that Ned gave us before the actual assessment on Monday. It ... Dfs May 17, 2013 DFSToday is a Friday so today’s post comes a little early. I am going to go and post this a little early. In today’s ... Hangman May 16, 2013 HangmanAfter yesterday’s exhausting day today was more of a time to sit down and gathering one’s self in preparation ... Recursion Blocks May 15, 2013 Recursion and BlocksToday we worked with recursion and blocks, two things that are much more abstract and difficult t... Tictactoe May 14, 2013 Tic Tac ToeToday was a pretty good day. Perhaps because the projects and the ideas were not as thorny and instead tes... First Day May 13, 2013 Day 1Hello EveryoneToday is the first in what I hope will be a long string of posts about my time here at App Academy...