What do I think?

From LinkedIn: Today is very bittersweet as it is my final day at WorkOS. This is the company that took a chance hiring me when I was a new grad, and I could not be more grateful for the opportunity.

Charcoal is an Open Source fork of Graphite that integrates with the GitHub CLI to allow you to start stacking PRs using git and GitHub for free.

Welcome to my new personal site, danewilliams.com! I decided to build this for a few reasons. I have been doing more frontend at work recently and felt it would be good practice. I wanted to try designing something cool.

After 7 semesters, I can finally call myself a Notre Dame alum! There have been so many memories made these past few years, from some of the awesome football wins we've had (especially thinking about the 2020 Clemson game) to the amazing friends I've met in

During the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters I have been working on a research project in Professor Chaoli Wang's Visualization Lab here at Notre Dame. My team and I have been studying Sankey diagrams, and how we can better illustrate data flow.

A few months ago, I saw on Linkedin that a fellow vampire, Zeno Rocha had started a new job at a startup called WorkOS. He said the team was looking to bring on more software engineers, so I scheduled a call and learned more about the company from him.

Over the summer I interned at Qualtrics which is an enterprise SaaS company that pioneered the experience management category. This was a really cool experience as it was essentially the first time I worked in a modern software engineering team environment.

As a final project for our databases class my friends Jack, Conor, Billy, and I decided to make a web app for a popular sport in our dorm at Notre Dame called Ruski. I won't get into the specifics of the game, but basically we thought it would be interesting to collect data on game results so that we could then rank players.

I recently set out to build an application with serverless AWS that would visualize imessage chat data in d3. After some digging and learning more about AWS I figured out that my idea wasn't really viable with the exact vision that I had. Not wanting to let the work I put in go to waste, I pivoted to making a pastebin and url shortener instead.

Recently I was looking up some java documentation as I have not worked with the language since my AP CS class sophomore year of high school, and ended up coming across an exciting surprise!

Recently my younger brother who is in high school and is beginning to learn more about programming expressed interest in building his own portfolio site, similar to this one. I figured I would help him out by making a tutorial for complete beginners.

In the Notre Dame CSE slack we have a bot named bobbit which performs many commands providing a lot of entertainment and functionality. I decided that it could be fun to build my own bot for use in my water polo team groupme so that we could easily get information about tournament schedules, pool time openings, etc.

Some fellow Notre Dame CS students made the awesome pbui-project, the POSIX-compliant BSD/Linux Userland Implementation, which is a userland implementation written entirely in zig. Out of curiosity for trying out zig I decided to make a small pull request implementing the pwd command.

As the final project for my systems programming class at Notre Dame my partner, Conor Murphy, and I developed a simple http web server server (similar to nginx). We did this entirely in C, which was a great opportunity to learn about networking specific issues such as commication over sockets,

Recently I have begun using the awesome dracula theme for most of my development tools. Unfortunately, one of my favorite tools, tmux did not have a dracula theme (until now).

Welcome to my blog! I plan to use this site to share my projects and code with the world, and may occasionally speak to other interests of mine. I am currently a CS student at Notre Dame, and you can learn more about me by checking out my about page.