Sam Winslow
Sam Winslow

Hi, I'm Sam.

I am a full-stack software engineer and private pilot based in Philly. Prior to working in tech, I studied communications at NYU and held internships in advertising and marketing.

I occasionally take on contract work, so reach out if you would be interested in collaborating.

Projects

  • Seven Invites

    Party-planning app for iOS (over 30k users at its peak)

  • FAA airspace classes, visualized in the browser

    Visualizing public-domain data which interests me as a pilot

  • Tunestack

    Social networking app for music lovers (COVID project, archived)

Posts

  • The Art and Science of Driving Stick

    hardwareideas
    One Man’s Approach to Manual Transmissions

  • The Private Pilot Checkride: my experience

    flying
    Here's how the practical exam went for me

  • Truth in language

    ideas
    Talking myself into a political corner with ChatGPT

  • Knowledge work is kind of lame

    artideas
    It seems antisocial or somehow ungrateful to make a statement like that. Why?

  • Seven Invites: Editable flyers

    javascriptui-ux
    As founding engineer, I built many of the creative & social features for this app. Here's one.

  • Notes on learning to fly

    flying
    Training in a Piper Cherokee

  • The steady hand and the flying machine

    flyingideas
    The machine is the enabler, a metric ton of metal sailing through the open sky, if nothing more.

  • Crypto winter & the obligation of the engineer

    ideas
    Blaming a retail investor for losing money in protocols they don’t understand is much like blaming a passenger for a plane crash

  • Dream Exception

    ideasmysticism
    At some point my questions began to transcend the spoken or written word

  • Flight sim hardware

    hardware
    Combining hobbyist electronics and aviation

  • Builders and Promoters

    ideas
    Two types of people I’ve worked with in tech

  • On misunderstanding

    ideas
    The best piece of advice I’ve received on writing and coding

  • Complexity and life

    ideasmysticism
    The middle path between fear and love: of God and the sciences

  • Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

    ideas
    Great ideas, confused solutions

  • Automating an indoor garden

    hardware
    Learning about hardware, embedded programming, and web security

  • The 3 best things I've done for my terminal experience

    shell
    Fig, zsh, and Dark+: A Simple and Productive Terminal Setup on OSX

  • Tunestack.fm

    A social networking app for music lovers to share reviews of their favorite albums.

  • Beauty in the time of algorithms

    ideasmysticism
    Still in the eye of the beholder

  • Buildings, trees, and resilience: a COVID meditation

    ideas
    I miss coffee chats and running into friends on the way to class. But we are individuals. We can't cure COVID in a day and we can't turn back the clock.

  • Posters

    art
    A poster a day: Feb–Mar 2019

  • Modernizing a magazine

    From designing spreads to designing a culture of belonging: my leadership path at NYU Baedeker

  • On productivity: tools and good books

    ideas
    I'm obsessed with optimizing repetitive tasks so that I can be more effective.

  • Medium is the message

    artideas
    How to Make a Mess

  • Go placidly amid the noise and haste

    ideas
    A set of guiding principles I work to uphold.