About
This is the personal blog of Evan Owens, a web and mobile software developer and accidental entrepreneur living in Natick, Massachusetts.
I started this site after noticing how my ability to slog through the daily technical grind was increasingly reliant on the blogospheric heroics of fellow engineers from all around the world. This is an attempt to give back to the community. The vast majority of posts are about technical problems and (hopefully) their solutions.
Some may be interested that, between 1995 and 2005, I lived in a rural region of southern Japan and then in various parts of the megalopolis Tokyo. In Tokyo I worked in and/or on a number of startups, and had the (mis)fortune to ride the dot-come bubble as it’s tsunami rolled through Asia.
I returned to the US in 2006; this blog has evolved to discuss the brave new country to which I returned.
Who the Heck is “Nurikabe”?
You may notice comments, tweets and the like from one “Nurikabe”. I am enamored with all things unusual; the darker side of Japanese folklore in particular, and the Nurikabe is one of my favorite Japanese youkai.