About
This is the personal blog of Evan Owens, a web and mobile software developer and accidental entrepreneur living in Waltham, 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 in my own small way. 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 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 between 2005 and 2006; this blog has evolved to discuss the brave new country to which I returned. These days, in addition to technical blurbs, I tend to haphazardly jot out posts on topics to which I feel I need to pay more attention. A nagging conscience of sorts, in blog form.
Who the Heck is “Nurikabe”?
You may notice comments, tweets and the like from one “Nurikabe”. I have a fascination with Japanese folklore, and the Nurikabe is one of my favorite Japanese youkai. I’ve been using it as a handle for years. If you see “nurikabe” around the web, that’s probably me.
