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Alex Onsager

My name is Alex. I grew up near Boulder, CO and spent most of my childhood reading books, playing music, and playing video games. I learned programming by making bad games for my TI-83 calculator. The first things I published online were bad flash websites. In college I studied programming and human-computer interaction. A team of classmates and I made a few apps on Facebook, which eventually turned into a startup. This was the first time I made something that was used by a large number of people. It became my introduction to making real products that have users and make money. I have been working at a mobile game company in Japan since 2010. Because my day-job doesn't currently involve much programming, I like to work on fun projects on the side that let me build things directly. Part of the reason I maintain this blog is the hope that it will help me make more connections online. Please feel free to get in touch! It would make me very happy.

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All posts (53)

Jake Saunders wrote about discovering that a recent Next.js vulnerability allowed hackers access to their server through an Umami instance. I use Umami, too! I logged into my VPS and didn’t see any suspicious files or running processes. I then opened my Umami dashboard to poke around, and my browser immediately...
Jake Saunders wrote about discovering that a recent Next.js vulnerability allowed hackers access to their server through an Umami instance. I use Umami, too! I logged into my VPS and didn’t see any suspicious files or running processes. I then opened my Umami dashboard to poke around, and my browser immediately...
From Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership, by Chris at Entropic Thoughts: In my book, a good leader coaches people, connects people, [. . .] creates direct links between supply and demand (instead of deliberately making themselves a middle man), [. . .] generally makes themselves redundant. I really...
From Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership, by Chris at Entropic Thoughts: In my book, a good leader coaches people, connects people, [. . .] creates direct links between supply and demand (instead of deliberately making themselves a middle man), [. . .] generally makes themselves redundant. I really...
I use an IQUNIX Magi65 keyboard at home, and absolutely love it. I didn’t get the Pro version, as I don’t really need a dial or media keys, and I preferred the smaller size anyways. The only real criticism I noticed in reviews was that the keyboard is pretty heavy, but this turned out to be a good thing for me. I...
I use an IQUNIX Magi65 keyboard at home, and absolutely love it. I didn’t get the Pro version, as I don’t really need a dial or media keys, and I preferred the smaller size anyways. The only real criticism I noticed in reviews was that the keyboard is pretty heavy, but this turned out to be a good thing for me. I...
I wanted to copy slides from one Google Slide document to another. Half-expecting it to not work, I just copied slides in one document, switched to a different tab, hit paste… and it worked! Seamless and perfect. It looks like when you copy slides, your clipboard actually saves a special payload that contains...
Or, “The latest chapter in my fool’s quest to discover a productivity framework that magically makes me effortlessly productive”. So it goes. I’ve always considered my todo list as a list of things I need to do (for obvious reasons). But I had a minor epiphany and realized that, in my current role, everything I do...
I was pointed to an article on Cosmographia which in turn shared an archive of photos taken in 19th century Japan. These are amazing photos, but what struck me was how familiar some of them felt. Photos taken from 150 years ago should feel like looking into another world, but some of these scenes, the architecture,...
As a rule of thumb, you are more likely to be satisfied by a service that you pay for directly. This is because paying money makes you a customer of the business, and the business is thereby directly motivated to keep you satisfied. If you want to find a service that will satisfy you for a long time, paying a...
The Fediverse, a network of interconnected social media services, requires users to choose a service for their account, tying their identity to that community. This can be problematic if the community experiences issues like spam, moderation problems, or shutdown. If we could decouple identity from community, like...
Some uplifting news from Japan: On April 13th in Shibata City of Niigata prefecture (Japan), the popular idol group Momoiro Clover Z had been planning a large music festival in cooperation with a large number of other artists, as well as local police, schools, and city government. However, on the day of festival the...

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