Hello! I’m Charlie Gorichanaz!
I’m a web developer from Milwaukee. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December 2010 with a bachelor of science in biochemistry. While studying there, I worked in web development and video production at The Badger Herald, the nation’s largest completely independent student newspaper. I also studied the effects of Vitamin D on diabetic mice. Then I spent a month traveling alone around Buenos Aires, Argentina, before returning home to work for 601am. After a year, I moved to beautiful San Francisco. Though I barely made it six months before fleeing to Australia for a month!
I love running, listening to music, recording photos and videos, and collecting data.
Other Internet presences I maintain to varying extents
- My full résumé on LinkedIn
- I track some small coding projects on Github
- Questions asked and answered on StackExchange
- Music listening on Last.fm
- Friend interaction on Facebook
- Where I am on Foursquare
- Occasional thoughts on Twitter
- I also use Fitbit, so add me if you do too!
- Infrequent videos on Vimeo
Featured blog posts
Item Grouper: Efficiently arrange things in groups
My mom needed arrange for 18 new employees to meet each other via a series of group sessions of four groups meeting at a time. In order to make each session as long as possible, she needed an efficient set of combinations to have each person meet each other person in as few sessions as possible.
She ended up manually grouping all the employees and came up with a solution that required nine sessions, which is pretty good. But I wrote a program that solves her problem using only eight sessions. And it only takes a few seconds, versus the much longer amount of time to do it manually.
Item Grouper source code
Fitness SF reaches out amid online fiasco
Barely two days after I posted about my new gym lifestyle, the Fitness SF website got replaced Feb. 14 with a cutting open letter from the company’s former designer, Frank Jonen.
“Fitness SF preferred to ignore our invoices instead of paying them. As a result this website is no longer operational,” Jonen wrote.
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Note: I’m in the process of switching my blog back to Movable Type from Wordpress, so most of my historic content is offline.
