On July 1, 2021, the Supreme Court struck down California’s law requiring nonprofits to provide a list of names and addresses of donors who contributed over $5,000 or more or 2% or more of total donations to the Attorney General. …

My eyes were glued to my computer screen, trying to make sense of percentage distributions in Inheritance Law when I decided that I should perform the seemingly more difficult task of writing a program that would distribute portions of inheritance to family members. I popped upon Repl.it and threw something…

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone to a buzzing crowd of Apple enthusiasts. It was the mark of a paradigm shift, because it ushered in the age of apps. But a much larger paradigm shift had occurred years before in 1996. At the headquarters of Compaq Computer…

A few days ago, I opened up my Linkedin profile and was greeted with a Facebook clone. It seems like websites are all pushing towards a singular design that is mobile first — fat headers and cute icons are all the rage now. …

You can think of a JavaScript class as a house that contain variables and functions. …

Free access does not mean open source software has to be free of cost. There are ways to alleviate the pressure of having to continuously maintain projects that suck valuable time away, time you’re happy to share, but time nonetheless. The problem arises when money is introduced to a community…

There’s something poignant, poetic even, about a black slave smoking tobacco knowing he’s going to be whipped and dismembered while white women watch and white men scorn. This seminal scene marks the beginning of an end to a long spree of violence that has followed Oroonoko’s heels, a conclusion where…

After Herbert Hoover’s presidency, the suffering American poor were ready for laws that would do away with the unregulated laissez-faire economy. John Steinbeck’s novel, Grapes of Wrath, embodies the New Deal and a shift towards government regulation by presenting Weedpatch Camp. To understand how Weedpatch Camp embodies the values of…