RogerHub – The personal blog of Roger Chen

Roger Chen is a computer programmer currently working at Google as a Site Reliability Engineer. He loves building website infrastructure and programming for the web.

You may have recognized him from:

RogerHub’s Final Grade Calculator
TA for CS 61C and CS 162 at UC Berkeley
Intern at Quizlet and Dropbox

Aside from programming, Roger also likes taking pictures, watching anime, reading manga, ~~attending concerts~~ watching YouTube, hiking, teaching, and writing.

RogerHub is Roger’s website, created on August 26th 2009. Among the things that are on this website are several personal and professional blogs. Below are some of the personal blog posts I enjoyed writing the most.

Net Neutrality – Dec 2017
Data loss and you – May 2017
Theory of Everything – Jan 2013
Crime and Affliction – Sep 2012
Direct Processing – Feb 2012
Heuristics in society – Dec 2011
Where technology is leading mankind – Dec 2011
How to stop email spam – Sep 2011

Roger works primarily in Python, Go, and JavaScript, but he will also work in C++, Ruby, Bash, Spanish, Lisp, Puppet, Java, Julia, or whatever language gets the job done. He has worked with web application infrastructure, email infrastructure, database administration, server provisioning tools, networking, and web security. Roger also has a background in machine learning, computer graphics, front-end web development, and high-performance computing.

Roger’s workflow and production stack is as follows:

Vim, the text editor
git, bash, tmux, rsync, GnuPG, bc, and Bazel
Google Chrome, YouTube Music, 1Password, and Todoist
Go, gRPC, and PostgreSQL for RogerHub.com
Google Workspace
macOS on my MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
Debian with systemd-nspawn on my Intel NUC8i3BEK NUC
Google Cloud Platform and Linode

Roger’s other things online:

You can reach Roger by email Roger Chen at rogerabisdj@ronullge
PGP: 3D5F FFD1 9097 65CA

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