hello

my name is sam raker

welcome to my website

i live in queens, new york, with my wife and our dog

i used to be a web developer, but i've recently gone back to school to study electrical engineering

i can be found on bluesky and github.

writing

• Community Bloggage—join me on my learning journey (lourney)
• Bangla thoughts—some thoughts i've had while learning Bengali
• "works on my machine"—on reception and reproducibility
• REST thoughts—i read RT Fielding's dissertation, wherein REST is debuted. i had thoughts.
• scrap your ORM—ORMs Are Bad and You Should Stop Using Them, Seriously.

other sites

• Bangla Flashcards—i wanted something to help me remember Bengali vocabulary that was 100% vanilla and worked well on mobile and coud be updated from my phone's github app. it's very satisfying to be able to add and review vocab from bed.
• Spanish Flashcards—lo mismo que el de arriba pero para español (con sus propios colores, de acuerdo.)
• exercises—i developed a chronic pain issue that was treated in part with physical therapy and at-home exercises. the pt place had an app, but then my insurance cut me off and i needed to make do. i am not an exerciser; i am bad at remembering counts of reps and seconds of hold time so i made an app to keep track. like the flashcard apps, this one is also just enough functionality and mobile-ly editable, although it does have a build process of sorts.