chris sm daiyi

technical illustration commission

Hello! I'm daiyi, a software engineer who likes explaining complex technical topics through bespoke visual aides, sketches, and comics. Talk to me, I am v approachable \o/

Why should you hire me over some other rando

I have a technical background (I am literally an engineer). You can "work with me" (aka dictate your desires) to the extent that you want to, but I can also run with whatever you throw at me and actually write teaching/explanatory content (which is the hard part!) Any illustrator can draw what you tell them to, but can they dream up of shockingly niche and deeply relatable distributed system memes?
I have a pretty big technical following on twitter and am part of a sketchnotes collective that will spread awareness your things by shouting about them at folks who would actually find it interesting
I will absolutely us

american career advice for people raise by chinese people

I almost never talk about race because I don’t feel un-american enough to participate in the conversation (a messed up dynamic for another time), yet I STILL find myself getting tripped up by my cultural baggage occasionally. I see a lot of advice for underrepresented people at work, but not anything specific for those raised with/in the vicinity of traditional Chinese values (which are great in certain contexts, like winning at school, but don’t necessarily translate to great career habits for success in the American workplace). This read will probably seem very obvious and unrelatable to people who haven’t been on the receiving end of chinese parenting, but if you are curious, take a peek \o/

pure intelligence is insufficient

You might have been trained to habitually deprioritise iterating on your communication and creativity skills in favour of polishing your mental computational power to the point that you never get around to building your

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am daiyi on github.
I am daiyi (https://keybase.io/daiyi) on keybase.
I have a public key ASDHLfQV35FuBjrpwqYLn34BOyKuwcRBu8PEcXrgG-jkvQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	(ns hello.core
	(:require [reagent.core :as reagent]
	[re-frame.core :as re-frame]))

	(defn ui []
	[:div
	[:p "hello!"]])


	;; This renders the app to the right-hand panel

	(ns demos.core
	(:require [reagent.core :as reagent]))

	(def demo-list [{:url "?gist-id=daiyi/77dce421a5fb59db71893b6727e92010"
	:text "hello world"}
	{:url "?gist-id=saskali/1398f41345ea4df551b0c370ac1ac822"
	:text "timer"}
	{:url "/"
	:text "to-do list"}])

	(ns instructions.core
	(:require [reagent.core :as reagent]
	[re-frame.core :as re-frame]))

	(defn info []
	[:div {:style {:max-width 500}}
	[:h1 "re-playground"]
	[:p "code is livereloaded.
	this right-hand panel has the id 'app'.
	to render reagent into this panel, target this element with "

	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="main.js"></script>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
	<title>space invaders</title>
	</head>

	<body>
	<div id="page">

	(defn life []
	(cons (rand-nth [:nature :mountains :movement]) (lazy-seq (life))))

	(take 5 (life))