Remember Lenny Writing online 2022-08-23T17:04:00.000Z https://blog.rememberlenny.com/ Lenny Bogdonoff Thoughts on my 33rd birthday https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2022/08/23/thoughts-on-my-33rd-birthday/ 2022-08-23T17:04:00.000Z 2022-08-23T17:04:00.000Z A few personal updates. Today is my 33rd birthday, and in somewhat abrupt fashion, I am moving to San Francisco. It feels particularly significant for the reasons I’ll... Second order effects of companies as content creators https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2021/02/13/innovation-parallels-around-trucking-and-zoom/ 2021-02-13T08:58:28.000Z 2021-02-13T08:58:28.000Z TLDR: There’s going to be a shit ton of temporarily useful content; businesses need to have a quick way to make the worthwhile content stand out. (Thanks Joseph) There... Text rendering stuff most people might not know https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2020/10/10/text-rendering-stuff-most-people-might-not-know/ 2020-10-10T05:01:38.000Z 2020-10-10T05:01:38.000Z I was stuck on a problem that I wanted to write out. The problem I was trying to solve could be simplified to the following: I have a box in the browser with fixed... Why is video editing so horrible today? https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2020/09/15/why-is-video-editing-so-horrible-today/ 2020-09-15T16:01:40.000Z 2020-09-15T16:01:40.000Z In the last three months, I have done more video post-production than I have done in the past 12 years. Surprisingly, in these years, nothing seems to have changed.... Making the variable fonts Figma plugin (part 1 – what is variable fonts [simple]) https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2020/09/08/making-the-variable-fonts-figma-plugin-part-1-what-is-variable-fonts-simple/ 2020-09-08T17:06:40.000Z 2020-09-08T17:06:40.000Z See this video summary at the bottom of the post, or by clicking this picture. Important update: The statement that Google Fonts only displays a single variable font axis... React Figma Plugin – How to get data from the canvas to your app https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2020/09/02/react-figma-plugin-how-to-get-data-from-the-canvas-to-your-app/ 2020-09-02T21:54:35.000Z 2020-09-02T21:54:35.000Z I had much too hard of a time groking the Figma Plugin’s documentation, and thought I would leave a note for any brave souls to follow. Figma has a great API and... Turning 31, and reflecting on the past 10 years https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2020/08/22/turning-31-and-reflecting-on-the-past-10-years/ 2020-08-22T23:25:14.000Z 2020-08-22T23:25:14.000Z 2020 Soka University of America Tomorrow is my birthday, and I turn 31 years old. I didn’t think as much about what turning 30 meant last year, so taking a pause to write... Which expensive events permanently go digital? https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2020/08/21/expensive-events-permanently-digital/ 2020-08-21T16:32:07.000Z 2020-08-21T16:32:07.000Z One of the more interesting conversations I had recently was with a b2b sales director, who could clearly articulate the before and after changes from Covid. In short,... The Unreal Engine in film production https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2020/08/14/notes-on-technology-impact-on-post-production/ 2020-08-14T13:16:14.000Z 2020-08-14T13:16:14.000Z Unreal engine used to shoot the Mandalorian using large LED screens synced with cameras The film industry is an opaque producer of quality entertainment, which I have... Three considerations for job searching https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2020/08/12/three-considerations-for-job-searching/ 2020-08-12T00:53:51.000Z 2020-08-12T00:53:51.000Z Over the past 10 years, I have formed opinions on the pros and cons of working at companies and organizations of varying sizes. While there are plenty of guides to the... Senior meets junior lessons learned, and some thoughts about the future of remote work https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2019/12/31/senior-meets-junior-lessons-learned-and-some-thoughts-about-the-future-of-remote-work/ 2019-12-31T22:25:13.000Z 2019-12-31T22:25:13.000Z High level summary Last month, I setup a brief survey on Typeform and submitted it to ProductHunt as a project called “Senior meets junior”. Senior meets junior was... Thoughts on side projects https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2019/12/18/on-why-i-do-side-projects/ 2019-12-18T18:12:00.000Z 2019-12-18T18:12:00.000Z I recently visited my best friend from college. We were both city boys who caused trouble as teenagers, and connected over our free spirited willingness for fun. Since... Goodbye 155 https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2019/12/06/goodbye-155-2/ 2019-12-06T17:14:28.000Z 2019-12-06T17:14:28.000Z Yesterday was the “Goodbye 155” celebrating the next steps for Orbital’s historic 155 Rivington St location. More than anything, the night felt more like the closing of a... How Public Art works https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2019/03/07/how-public-art-works/ 2019-03-07T15:40:38.000Z 2019-03-07T15:40:38.000Z Details on my React-Native iOS application backed by a Ruby on Rails backend and some Python Jupyter notebook scripts Public Art is an iOS application that helps you... Short announcement: App went out. https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2019/03/05/short-announcement-app-went-out/ 2019-03-05T07:18:29.000Z 2019-03-05T07:18:29.000Z And I added 20,000 new photos in the last two weeks Quick update to keep with the bi-weekly rhythm. This one will be shorter than others. Last email I shared background... Weekly update February 19, 2019 https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2019/02/20/weekly-update-february-19-2019/ 2019-02-20T04:49:16.000Z 2019-02-20T04:49:16.000Z Bi-weekly update for February 19th, 2019 Hey! I promised a bi-weekly update, so heres #2! I did a lot of new development this past two weeks. To kick it off, I started... Weekly update Monday, February 4 https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2019/02/20/weekly-update-monday-february-4/ 2019-02-20T04:46:50.000Z 2019-02-20T04:46:50.000Z Weekly update February 4, 2019 I will be doing my best to send a bi-weekly update on the progress around my efforts to build out a street art genealogy online, and create... On Building an Instagram Street Art Dataset and Detection Model https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2019/02/13/on-building-an-instagram-street-art-dataset-and-detection-model/ 2019-02-13T17:30:11.000Z 2019-02-13T17:30:11.000Z What if you could pump all of the Instagram photos of Banksy’s artwork into a program that could pinpoint where the next one’s likely to be? Well, we aren’t there quite... Tracking street art with machine learning — updates https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2018/11/08/tracking-street-art-with-machine-learning - updates/ 2018-11-08T14:36:46.000Z 2018-11-08T14:36:46.000Z Mural from Reyes, Revok and Steel from MSK (https://www.fatcap.com/live/revok-steel-and-reyes.html) Thank you for following the Public Art[⁰] project for building a... On the post-centralization of social media https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2018/10/24/on-the-post-centralization-of-social-media/ 2018-10-24T19:23:06.000Z 2018-10-24T19:23:06.000Z Below are some running thoughts on the centralization of social media. I have been reactivating many of my public art crawlers for publicart.io. In the process, I am only... Machine learning https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2018/04/11/machine-learning/ 2018-04-11T04:25:57.000Z 2018-04-11T04:25:57.000Z I used to work at www.comet.ml, where they are building a really amazing tool for machine learning engineers. The short of it is they help track experiments using a... Learning to apply Machine Learning tools and Computer Vision as a Rails Developer https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2018/01/01/learning-to-apply-machine-learning-tools-and/ 2018-01-01T07:06:41.000Z 2018-01-01T07:06:41.000Z This is a follow up on my process of developing familiarity with computer vision and machine learning techniques. As a web developer (read as “rails developer”), I found... How I built a REST endpoint based Computer Vision task using Flask https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2017/12/31/how-i-built-a-rest-endpoint-based-computer-vision-task-using-flask/ 2017-12-31T01:33:07.000Z 2017-12-31T01:33:07.000Z This is a follow up on my process of developing familiarity with computer vision and machine learning techniques. As a web developer (read as “rails developer”), I found... Two months exploring deep learning and computer vision https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2017/12/28/two-months-exploring-deep-learning-and-computer/ 2017-12-28T19:33:03.000Z 2017-12-28T19:33:03.000Z Repost from Medium I decided to develop familiarity with computer vision and machine learning techniques. As a web developer, I found this growing sphere exciting, but... Two months exploring deep learning and computer vision https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2017/12/20/two-months-exploring-deep-learning-and-computer-vision/ 2017-12-20T21:31:02.000Z 2017-12-20T21:31:02.000Z I’ve been reading/note taking is using an iPad Pro and LiquidText I decided to develop familiarity with computer vision and machine learning techniques. As a web...