Dylan's Dev Blog

Dev

SBHacks 2025: We Won Something!

During SBHacks 2025 we won best entertainment app with Baddy Buddy: Advanced Analytics for Badminton.

Life

Christmas Break 24-25

It's really nice not having school.

Life

Midquarter Slump

Really bored recently

Dev

Detect Ping Pong Ball With Deep Learning

Tracking a ping pong ball with decent accuracy

Dev

Ping Pong iOS App

My first CCS Computing project: a computer vision Ping Pong scoreboard.

Book Notes

The Paradox of Choice

Notes on Barry Schwartz's Paradox of Choice. This post is part of a series where I review what I learned from each book I read.

Book Notes

Made to Stick

Notes on Chip Heath's Made to Stick. This post is part of a series where I review what I learned from each book I read.

Life Featured

Starting College

Fun stories from my first college experience

Life Featured

The Summer Before College

I had some stuff about my Portugal trip written a few weeks ago that I never got around to finishing. So I guess I'll try summarizing my entire summer in this one blog post. Senior Grad Trip - Portugal My friends and I just got back from our

Life

Last Week of School

School is ending. I can't believe it.

Book Notes

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Book notes on "The Hard Thing About Hard Things"

Book Notes

Fall In Love With the Problem, Not the Solution

Book notes on "Fall in Love With the Problem, Not the Solution"

Life

College Decisions

College sucks... kinda.

Dev

Gunn Elimination Recap

The final entry of my Gunn Elimination blog series

Dev

Gunn Elimination Blog #2

Elimination updates since the last post. The game starts in 2 days!

Book Notes

Sprint

Notes on Jake Knapp's Sprint. This post is part of a series where I review what I learned from each book I read.

Dev

Gunn Matchomatics

Disrupting a (potentially) million-dollar company in two days. My school-wide valentine's matcher is fully customizable and free (for now).

Life Featured

Best Christmas Break Ever?

A really good Christmas break, possibly the best I've ever had.

Life

18th Birthday

Guys I'm 18

Life

How to Make a Music Video

Make a music video. It's pretty fun!

Life

It's Been a Year Since Ruby Hill

So much is done in just the first few months of school.

Dev

Gunn Elimination Blog #1

Progress for Gunn Elimination

Life

Two Days Back In

Day two. Lot's of cool things happening

LunchTrak

Is LunchTrak Back?

I’m back 😈😏

Life

I spent 10 hours on the perfect Common App intro

Wanna see me slowly lose my mind over 10 hours of writing? I copied all of my drafts for my new Common App intro on rap, with the newest edition on top. It’s 4 AM, just a few hours away from the hackathon deadline, and our sugar rush isn’