Mike Pinkowish

It’s the start of a new year, and a time for new goals. My resolutions in the past have usually failed because I either didn’t write them down or wasn’t specific enough about them. This year, I’m going to start … Continue reading →

Like I mentioned in my previous post, I need to set some rules for my month long experiment of trying to balance my consumption of good content with my production. After thinking about it for some time, here’s what I’ve … Continue reading →

The internet makes it so easy to consume quality content. From well-written and insightful articles and blog posts to excellent photographs to interesting coding project, there’s a bulk of easily accessible, quality content. This accessibility has allowed me to consume … Continue reading →

A few weekends ago, on March 5th, I held a hackathon at RPI. Hackathons are essentially all night coding sprees fueled by energy drinks and pizza. Facebook holds hackathons a few times a year, and a decent number of features, … Continue reading →

Since June, I had been pining to redesign my site.  I had few ideas floating as to what I wanted to design and started elaborating on those ideas.  Probably the most ambitious of those ideas, was something I called the … Continue reading →

Phone interviews are tough, especially for software engineering, user interface, and other tech positions. Background noise on either end, shoddy audio quality, and just the fact that you’re not sitting face-to-face with your interviewer make for a trying experience.  Having … Continue reading →