Harry Ganz

31 October 2025

When I saw the original Microsoft Surface I immediately though that it was the ideal laptop + tablet, 2-in-1 format: a perfect balance of power and portability. It had one problem, though. It ran Windows. It has been a decade, but I finally decided to get a Surface and turn it into the perfect, portable Linux 2-in-1 that I had always dreamed of.

25 July 2024

Living in the Northeast U.S. and looking at houses on Zillow is painful. Everything is unaffordable, but it could be worse. I could be looking for homes in Teton County, Wyoming. In this post, I have collected county level home value data to find out where the most and least expensive places to buy a home in the U.S. are.

14 March 2024

Doing a proof-of-concept (P.O.C.) before building something complex or uncertain is an immensely useful tool when developing software; however, I learned that it is pretty easy to mess up a P.O.C. and turn it from something useful into a total waste of time. If a P.O.C. is done right it can help identify tricky parts of an approach and nail down feasibility. If a P.O.C. is done wrong, it could fail to actually assess how feasible an approach is and lead to poor estimates, missed deadlines, and possibly even an unusable mess of software.