BFS vs DFS: The Difference, Visualized on a Grid
BFS vs DFS explained: queue vs stack, time and space complexity, and shortest paths. Step both searches through the same grid in an interactive visualizer.
CTO building products that move businesses forward
I'm Pate, CTO at Code/+/Trust and Workforce Wave, based in Charleston, SC. I lead engineering teams that build custom software for entrepreneurs and an AI voice platform that automates business communications.
New: spacebar, Markdown in Quick Look
Press Space. Markdown, fully rendered: Mermaid, math and code, right in Finder. Free and open source for macOS.
I also publish open source terminal tools: histy-cli, ports-cli and asciiquarium. See all packages, or try the free kill port tool.
Connect 4 Strategy: Center Control, Threats, Blocks and Forks
Learn Connect 4 strategy with board diagrams and a practice trainer: control the center, take immediate wins, block threats and build forks from real positions.
Minesweeper Patterns: 1-2-1, 1-2-2-1 and Practice Boards
Learn Minesweeper patterns with interactive practice boards: 1-1 at an edge, 1-2, 1-2-1, 1-2-2-1 and the subset rule. See why a move is safe, and when a pattern does not apply.
Agentic Workflows: How I Ship Software Without Reading the Code
What an agentic workflow is, the orchestrate, implement, review and fix loop I use with Claude Code and Codex, and how it rebuilt vtop in Rust in about four hours.
vtop: How to Install and Use It on Mac and Linux
How to install vtop, the terminal activity monitor with braille CPU and memory graphs, on macOS and Linux with npm. Keyboard shortcuts, themes, options, and fixes for common errors.
Work
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- ShiftNOW
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- ShiftNOW
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- Code/+/Trust
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Projects
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- Jevfish
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- A chess engine that never calculates a line. My code lists the legal, tactically...
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- Workforce Wave
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- I currently work on Workforce Wave in my free time. We are building AI agents to...
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- ShiftNOW
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- I worked at ShiftNOW as the VP of Software Development. We built a scalable plat...
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- DataProtocol
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- I lead the development of the initial DataProtocol product, a developer learning...
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- Event.Gives Live
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- During Covid I helped pivot Event.Gives to a virtual event platform. Building a ...
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- Code/+/Trust
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- At Code/+/Trust I got my start in developing software and helped build my first ...
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- CandleFish
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- I worked with a small team at Code/+/Trust to add custom features and build a cu...
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- BlinkTBI
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- For 2+ years I lead the development of the BlinkTBI web portal and mobile app....