https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/Recent content on Adam's Blog!HugoenMon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/basicclock/Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/basicclock/A clock? I was bored one day and I randomly remembered that I own a bunch of arduino stuff and modules that I can play around and build with. I wasn’t sure what to build but then I realized that to be aware of the time can help when i’m working and generally can benefit from having a clock hung around my room. Apart of the arduino kit that I got was a 4 digit 7-segment display, which screamed to me CLOCK?https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/cooppagerduty/Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/cooppagerduty/Welcome to my final co-op report about my work term at PagerDuty. “The world is always on. Let’s keep it that way.” Pagerduty is a digital operations company, it’s a tool that helps customers maximize productivity, mitigate threats, and deliver amazing expieriences. Examples of customers of PagerDuty. Pagerduty offers a number of products from on-call management to event intelligence to visibility into your data and operations. Before we dive into this, let me define a few things:https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/coopibm/Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/coopibm/Welcome to my 2nd co-op report about my work term at IBM, where I was apart of the extreme blue program. IBM is a huge American company! The headquarters are in Armonk, New York and has offices in 170 countries. IBM’s previous name was the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed to “International Business Machines” in 1924. IBM sells mostly software, middle-ware, and computer hardware, but has been selling everything you can imagine from clocks to cheese cutters (yum cheese!https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/plasticfreejuly/Sat, 03 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/plasticfreejuly/Back in January 2019, I decided to fully test out how eco friendly I can make my life! I found the first and easiest swap to make were bathroom products, luckily living in Canada, Lush exists! Lush is a fresh handmade cosmetic company that sells everything needed in zero packaging! It’s been very easy to swap out my face wash, shampoo and conditioner to their package free products. They’re also made from natural, real ingredients rather than chemicals and unknowns.https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/geneticalgorithms/Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/geneticalgorithms/Often a simple introduction to a topic that seems complex can certainly help understanding it. Evolutionary computation was something I was truly in awe of and wanted to learn more about. I am taking a math project research course and decided to implement a enolutionary algorithm that plays tetris. However, decided to write a few simple enolutionary algorithms to help understand the concepts. An evolutionary algorithm?! What’s that! First let’s define what an evolutionary algorithm is and how we can build one!https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/coopwave/Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.craftedbyadam.dev/post/coopwave/Welcome to my first work term report! Here I’ll be talking about my 8 months that I’ve spent at Wave as well was what I learned and am proud of. “Wave helps brave entrepreneurs simplify their financial lives to build stronger, more professional, and more sustainable businesses.” Wave is a financial services company located in east Toronto. They’re goal is to empower small business owners by taking the burden of accounting, payroll, payments and more.