Stephen Joe Jonany

Software engineer. Amateur musician. Boulderer. Anime + video game watcher.

Resume

Writing

I like to think, and write about said thinking. Here are some recent writings:

• Mindset
• Computational kindness (talk)
• Impact vs joy
• Why you still need to learn even when AI can do anything
• Improving RAG performance

And more here

Bouldering

• Indoor bouldering fun with friends
• Outdoor bouldering

Music

• I like to make covers of video game music
• I also like to host video game music jam sessions
• Sometimes I take jazz lessons
• Here’s a piano tutorial that I built for my brother
• I had a scuffed arrangement that got popular. I wish my other arrangements are more popular, but the algorithm works in mysterious ways.

Side projects

Here are some fun side projects I did in the past:

• Android app that auto-suggests funny text responses. Github. Blog post. Writeup
• Chrome extension for reading webpages w/ an auto-scroller that I built with my friend Ben. Github. Extension
• Declarative calendar. Github. Blog post

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