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About Andrew Andrade

Andrew Andrade is BASc Mechatronics Engineering in his final year of undergradgraduate and OCT teacher. He is currently a teacher at Port Credit Secondary School, and was a deployment strategist @Palantir, founder of PetroPredict, and past intern at Facebook, Suncor (PetroCanada) and Chrysler. You can learn more about him by reading his curricula vitæ.

About Blog

This blog serves as a repository for the original posts and cross posts of guest posts written by Andrew Andrade . It can include technical articles, study notes, general thoughts on a subject, lessons learned and anything else which I think is worthy to share!

The same as my personal site and curricula vitæ, the this blog is hosted on Github Pages. Originally I used uWaterloo's Computer Science Club to post my blog and portfolio using a custom Wordpress site. Wordpress' interface, plug-ins and drag and drop set-up kept me using the site, but after being tired of the constant security updates and slow performance, I switched over to a simple static html page. I knew I would eventually need a CMS, but I was happy with the simplictiy and performacen of a static landing page. As I progressed to learning to mostly use the command line, using `git`, `Markdown`, `vim`, `tmux` and `zsh`, it became the natural decision to switch over to using Github pages for my webhosting needs. Github pages enabled making changes to my site to be as simple as a `git commit` and made me very happy. Since Markdown is very simple and fast to use, it became a natural extension. This platform I built for blogging has the same mainstream features which other blogs have: RSS feeds, search, tags, categories. It is still a work in progress, but I am pretty happy with it currently!