Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Star of David

This is a Star of David. It is a symbol of pride for my people, adopted by the movement born out of our need for self determination in our ancestral homeland after millennia of exile and persecution — the Zionist movement. The chant of hope my people spoke, during the darkest nights, during pogroms, holocaust,…

April 11, 2022
Dignity in Tech

In my senior year of high school I taught myself HTML. That was right after HTML4 came out, and it made more complicated web designs possible. I had to lay out images using tables, but I could still do it. I was learning Pascal in school and took to coding like a dog to a…

March 17, 2022
A Year of Shakespeare

I spent this past year reading all the plays of Shakespeare. Each has five acts, a play runs 2-3 hours, an act can be read in 30-45 minutes. There are 38 plays, so you can read a play a week and finish well within a year. I spent most evenings reading an act, often listening…

December 1, 2021
Quality First

What does that mean? It means that I get grumpy if I need to keep waking up because something wasn’t built well. But if you want to ignore MY feelings, you can bet that your customers will feel grumpy too if they need to use your service and something isn’t working. In short: You want…

October 22, 2021
Technical Interviews

I’ve gotten compliments on the technical challenges I’ve set up for applicants interviewing to join my team… from the applicants themselves. People don’t always perform well with an audience, and rarely do we code in front of others during our day-to-day. Pair Programing is an over-looked powerful practice, it helps a ton with these anxieties,…

July 11, 2021
Buds of Spring

Buds of spring are always delicate, regardless of the age of the tree.

April 21, 2021
I’m Back WordPress, I missed you! So Long Hugo, Hello JAMStack!

My career, and development as an engineer, can be followed through the evolution, redesign, and rebuilding of this site — www.jackreichert.com. Initially I launched on shared WordPress hosting, and built on top starter themes. It was rudimentary, but it worked, and I got my first full-time tech job with those skills. As I learned systems…

April 17, 2021
Please Unfollow Me

If you followed me during the election because we share values, but you don’t “believe” my people have a right to self determination in their homeland, you can go ahead and unfollow me now. Please let the door hit your backside on the way out. I’m American and Jewish. I was brought to Israel as…

December 27, 2020
The Green New Deal that Isn’t

I’ve been hearing about the Green New Deal for over a year now. I was really excited about it, initially. Finally, our government is putting forth legislation that will do something about all the damage we’re causing. Maybe there will be a future for our planet! Today I Learned that the “Green New Deal” is…

August 14, 2020
A New Neighbor

When we first moved into our house I always wondered what this mound in the back was. Well today I found out. It looks like we have a new neighbor. Maybe I’ll ask them to join us for elevenses, or second breakfast. I bet his name is Mr. Underhill.

August 9, 2020