I'm Tom. I'm a <a href="https://github.com/tomjessessky">software engineer </a>at <a href="http://redoxengine.com">Redox</a>. I live in <a href="http://tomjessessky.com/food/insights-for-a-certain-7-day-period-during-which-establishments-that-serve-food-in-wisconsins-capitol-city-have-good-deals/">Madison</a>, Wisconsin, and I try to <a href="http://tomjessessky.com/travel/">travel</a> for at least 1 month per year. Recently I've gotten back into making videos, and I love cooking. I've worked many places, mostly startups. Here, I write about the things I've learned. Follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/tomjessessky">Instagram</a>.
Botox Injection Gone Very Wrong
A few nights ago, I made the mistake of trying to upgrade the firmware on my Sony a6000 mirrorless camera. I love that camera, even though it has a few flaws. And when it temporarily flatlined on me, I felt like a doctor who had killed a patient during a routine botox injection. Sony, why would you make such nice cameras, and then pay [...]
My Summer of Bluemix (and its only use case)
I spent several months in 2016 analyzing the viability of Bluemix, IBM’s competitor to Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is only one use case where using Bluemix makes sense.
Fitness and Nutrition – The Only Advice You Need, in 100 Words
I’m a regular schmuck, but I’ve been doing lots of research and experimentation in fitness and nutrition over the past few years. Here is my advice for 2017: Nutrition is top priority. Reduce sugar. Cut processed foods. Eat vegetables. There are no shortcuts. 95% of health is eating whole foods and exercising. Powders, [...]
Tom and Sophia in Rome
My days of editing “Tom and Jared” music videos came rushing back to me as I put together this video of Sophia and I dancing, laughing, and pointing to things in Rome. Enjoy! The Inspiration Here is the Unofficial Official Video by Aziz Ansari and Eric Wareheim, made while they were shooting the next season of Master of [...]
Egypt
In May 2015 – days after I graduated from UW-Madison – my dad and I went on the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. I’ve read (i.e. skimmed) many travel blogs, and have decided to post here a series of anecdotes from the trip, rather than our day-by-day journal. We took over 800 photographs on the trip, curated here with the few [...]
Egypt – Dad’s Memories
These are Dad’s raw and, with one exception, unedited thoughts on our trip to Egypt. Enjoy. Wow… Quite a trip. Started with a flight from Chicago to Frankfurt Germany, a 3 hour layover (which was just right) and then a 4.5 hour flight to Cairo. Our rep picked us up in Cairo at about 4pm and whisked us through the airport. Then a [...]
Insights for a Certain 7-Day Period During Which Establishments that Serve Food in Wisconsin’s Capitol City Have Good Deals
Happy Restaurant Week! I collected all the menus, the Yelp scores, and looked at the normal menu for each of the 50 participating restaurants and created a website where anyone could easily find the Restaurant Week deal of their dreams. Within an hour, I had a message in my Twitter inbox from Madison Magazine demanding I take [...]