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Ian Wagner

Author of 34 posts

Most people know me as a programmer. I’ve been developing mobile apps since the month the App Store launched, but spend most of my time on backend software and libraries these days. I love startups, and have even co-founded a few! I’ve worked in industries ranging from streaming media to finance and even agriculture. My current day job (and nights and weekends too sometimes) is Stadia Maps.

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Learning a Language the Lazy Way

Nov 6, 2024

by ian

I've lived in South Korea for quite some time, and during my stay here I've become reasonably fluent in the language. People often ask how long it took to become fluent and if I have any tips for thei...

Sequence Locks

Oct 30, 2024

by ian

I just listened to a fantastic Two's Complement podcast episode (transcript) in which Matt and Ben discussed a data structure I'd never heard of before: the sequence lock. It is not very well known, b...

Copying and Unarchiving From a Server Without a Temp File

Oct 28, 2024

by ian

Sometimes I want to copy files from a remote machine--usually a server I control. Easy; just use scp, right? Well, today I had a subtly different twist to the usual problem. I needed to transfer a ~10...

KWDC 24

Oct 26, 2024

by ian

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending KWDC 24, an Apple developer conference modeled after WWDC, but for the Korean market. Regrettably, I only heard about it a few days prior through a friend at ...