
My Mission
To master the process of software development, gain advanced proficiency in a few programming languages and use those skills and knowledge to build applications that:
- are novel solutions to everyday problems
- help others develop solutions
- make the world a better place than i found it
- brings people together
About Me
Hey there, welcome to my website! My name is Danny Lee, a NYC-based coding enthusiast who pivoted into software development in 2019. I've had a lot of past careers, including telco cable splicer, commercial real estate broker and small business owner, handyman, and a manager in different organizations. I also have a lot of hobbies including woodwork, acrylic and watercolor painting, letterpress printing, gardening, welding and a more recent interest in surfing.
Location
I'm a perennial New Yorker, born in, raised and lived most of my whole life in the greatest city in the world. Its an amazing, diverse and constantly changing landscape that is always renewing and rebuilding itself. Recently, nyc's taken a sharp shift towards tech and startups, which is incredibly exciting.
What do you love about software development?
I've recently shifted into software development and I love it! What do I love about it? Well first, although its difficult to pull off, the possibility of working remotely was that last push I needed to take the plunge. Bali, here I come! ππ»ββοΈπ Next, there is an endless supply of knowledge to feed my love of learning and practicing new skills. Programming is a challenging, yet highly accessible field. The knowledge is readily available in different forms (books, documentation, videos, podcasts, et cetera). There's just so much of it, which is another positive reason for me. I love learning. Thirdly, I see potential for building passive income streams from apps and websites, that just need some time, an entrepreneurial spirit and some cash to get off the ground. And lastly, but perhaps, most importantly the challenges of programming aligns exceedingly well with my creative problem solving skills and there is an endless supply of knowledge to feed my love of learning and practicing new skills. Dream, explore, create, review, rebuild. Its how I approach my work, my hobbies and interests, its how I live.
As a handyman at Taskrabbit, I had the chance to take on all kinds of odd jobs and come up with solutions and bring them to fruition. Its at that time, that I truly learned my passions are in finding and building creative solutions for peoples' real world problems. I'm actually really proud of the reviews and kudos I received from my many clients during that time (link: https://tr.co/dhl), because I didn't grow up as a handy person. I also wasn't formally trained in the field, though 5 years as a telco cable splicer taught me a lot.
Handywork was something I always wanted to do growing up (having been a huge fan of This Old House and Bob Vila). After deciding to try my hand at it, and jump into the handyman field, I learned through reading lots of books and websites, YouTube videos, scouring handywork forums and reddit, and last but not least--the way I learn best--hands-on experience. It was scary at first, and it had a challenging learning curve, but I believe I can say, humbly, that I mastered handywork. But, I couldn't see doing it for another 15 or 20 years. I needed a new challenge and I think I've found it in software development.
We'll see how this goes! π
Update 10/2021: Going good! SQL and Big Data are my new interests. π
Quote of the moment
"I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room." - Dwayne Johnson
Tools and Technologies
LANGUAGE:
JavaScript, Scala, Python, SQL, Java, Ruby, HTML
TOOL AND FRAMEWORK:
Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Hive, Pandas, Openpyxl, Pymssql, React, Rails, CSS, Markdown, JSON
DATABASE:
Oracle, MS Sqlserver
DATA MANAGEMENT:
Databricks, Snowflake, SSMS, SQL Developer, Azure Data Studio, HDFS, AWS
SOFTWARE:
Excel, Putty/Citrix/ssh, Git/VCS, Postman
OS:
Windows, Unix
VISUALIZATION:
Power BI
DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE:
Insurance, Real Estate
Hobbies and Interests
Acrylic and watercolor painting
Gardening (indoor and outdoor, propagation)
Karaoke
Video art and mashups
Woodworking, handywork and flux core welding
Creative Writing
and, soon, Surfing!
Past website work (2011 - 2020)
General
Educational:
- Education Technology Clearinghouse [usf.edu] - Many educational and research related links
- Finding Copyright Free Images@uw.edu
- HathiTrust Digital Library - Digitized books, some very old.
- Encyclopedias and Dictionaries@uw.edu
Autism Resources
NYC & Real Estate Resources:
- NYC Digital Tax Map - Prop. info. by BBL/Address
- NYC DOF - Property
- DOTMap - Searchable map for info parking regs, street construction, bicycle paths and more.
- QCAD - easy, FOSS CAD for floorplans and diagrams.
- Building codes clarified (geo unspecific)
Nature:
- [English name translation of Korea Native Plants (from Korea Forest Service)]
- Three birds I have fond childhood memories of. To sight them occasionally outside our 2nd floor apt window. Twas thrilling!
- Not a fan of this uppity bird, but they're everywhere and I never knew its name:
Technical
For Scientists:
- Piotr Migdal's list of software for scientists
- Useful Apps for Scientists (outdated - 2012)
- GUI clients for GIT
- Article: How do Scientists really use computers?
- Overview of Git's usefulness in research
- Quick Intro - step by step walkthrough
- Reproducible workflow and version control
- Teaching plan for VC with GIT
Misc.:
- ICANN WHOIS lookup - Better way to research domains. Prevents unscrupulous hosts from registering your domain ideas.
- Folding@home - distributed computing for simulating protein folding to cure disease.
- DevDocs API reference
- OverAPI - all the cheat sheets
- Pingdom Website Speed Test
- Internet Health Test (Broadband speed)
- CSS Specificity Calculator
Inter-net of Yore:
- Wayback Machine - Website snapshots from the past.
- MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons)
- Genocide LPMud - my all-time favorite. The original PUBG-style arena-style battle game.
- Dragonfire Mud - my first LPMud
- Perilous Realms - another mud I enjoyed
- Ancient Anguish LPMud - another good mud back in the day
- MUDStats.com - stats and info on MUDs
- Top Mud Sites Forum
- LPMuds.net - LPC, LPMud info
- Galaxy/einet's Mud directory
- The MUD Connector
- MUDs @ Lysator.liu.se
- BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems)
- BBS Corner Telnet BBS Guide
- Textfiles.com - Historical BBS List
- Renegade BBS Software
- Mystic BBS Software
- Internet wildernesses - places for digital exploration
- Dennis M Ritchie
- Textfiles.com (1980s - 1995 Internet)
- Annarchive (game media, archeaology, and artifacts)
- Unix History
- Computer Languages History
- Windows History
- Alan De Smet
- Aalt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ v1.799999999999999998...
- The Swiss Bay's PDF archive
- Lagmonster
- Ascii Art Archives
- Calver's site
- Wisc.edu Basement Computing
- Old Video Game Software and Media
- VGMRIPS - Arcade video game sounds and music
- Looping Audio Converter - Audio converter for video game looping audio files
- Roms and emulator sites: DopeROMs EMUparadise ROMsmania

Creative Karass
- Awkwafina - Web
- Ayumi Nojiri - Instagram
- Cadence Ryu - Blog
- DJ Shine - YouTube Playlist
- Flowsik - Youtube
- Gayageum Pierna - Instagram
- Joe Yun - Web Podcast
- Kurt Vonnegut, jr. - Cat's Cradle
- Lois K. Lee - Instagram
- Makoto Oki - Web
- Matt Granger - Youtube
- Risa Nishimori - Web Pottery Studio
- Sarah Graham - Web
- Vera Protopopova - Instagram
Last updated: 5/26/2020
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![[Myself at 38 w32nd Street with Canvas]](img/creative/image-cap-art.jpg)
Art Galleries:
- Altitude Gallery (Bozeman, MT, US)
- Will's Art Warehouse (London, UK) Great thread on making fine art prints.
Collectionism
Not yet a defined art style, but it should be! It would include 2D and 3D artwork composed in a style that organizes and brings together objects with a common connection (purpose, color, time period, etc.)
The retail version of Collectionism: Pop Chart
Last updated: 5/27/2020
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νκ΅ λ¬Όκ±΄ - Korean related stuff
![[image of korean characters]](img/korea/image-cap-language.jpg)
Language
- Korean Pop Songs from the 80s and 90s [youtube]
- Hanja links (Chinese characters learned in Korean schools)
- Vocabulary Videos A fun intro to Korean vocabulary by Jaehwi from KoreanClass101.com (youtube).
Last updated: 5/26/2020
[image source]
![[image of korean characters with brushes]](img/korea/image-cap-poetry.jpg)
Poetry
- Sijo (Korean poetic form) introduction - A basic guide to Sijo, with examples and links to more info.
- The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry [pdf]
- Poetry by Kim Sowohl (Translated by Sekyo Nam Haines)
- Poetry by Lee Yuk Sa (Translated by Sekyo Nam Haines)
Last updated: 5/26/2020
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![[Kim Hong-do, A Cat and a Butterfly painting]](img/korea/image-cap-art.jpg)
Art
- Bojagi Wrapping Cloths - A video introduction by Youngmin Lee (vimeo).
- Kim Hong Do art gallery
Last updated: 5/26/2020
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![[Seoul Food Shop 1890-1923]](img/korea/image-cap-historical.jpg)
Historical
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Old books about Korea
- The passing in Korea (1906) by Homer B. Hulbert
- Korea (1904) by Angus Hamilton (w/ maps and illustrations)
-
Korean Genealogy - tracing family names.
- Inje University Genealogy Library (KR) μΈμ λνκ΅ λ°±μΈμ κΈ°λ λμκ΄
- Family Search - Korea Collection of Genealogies
Last updated: 5/26/2020
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Bali
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![[image of sunset and temple in Bali]](img/bali/image-cap-general.jpg)
General Info
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Visas
- Embassy of Indonesia, Washington, DC
- US Department of State: Indonesia travel requirements, country info and advisories.
- The Lonely Planet: Visas and Customs
- Bali.com - Visa & Immigration Bali
- BMC Money Changer: Daily rates on the ground
- TransferWise: Cheaper than bank transfers with clear fees and money in hand.
Currency Exchange Rate
Last updated: 5/27/2020
[personal photo]
![[I love bali sign]](img/bali/image-cap-places.jpg)

![[Legs crossed next to a pool]](img/bali/image-cap-dn.jpg)
Digital Nomads/Freelance
- Digital Nomads Community Link Directory - All kinds of info.
- Nomad List - Place finder and remote jobs.
- Digital Nomad Board - Jobs and community.
- We Work Remotely - Jobs and community.
- Working Nomads - Jobs
- Authentic Jobs - Freelance job board for creatives.
- Freelancer Map - Freelance job board.
- Freelancer - Freelance job board.
Last updated: 5/27/2020
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