Reid Burke

Hi, I’m Reid Burke. I make tools to help people write great software.

I work on Yahoo Mail, live video production, motorcycles, and websites made with open source tools.

I live in San Jose, California with my wife @jeeyunit.

From The Blog

  • Waters from the Wilderness

    Today I took a trip to the Pulgas Water Temple. It’s only open on weekdays, so I stopped by for a few minutes late in the day. I took these pictures on my Canon EOS 6D with my go-to 17-40 f/4 L lens. This stone structure near Interstate 280 commemorates the completion of the Hetch […]

  • Building a Live Video Broadcast Switcher PC

    I originally wrote this post in late 2017. A lot has changed since then! Our original PC was stolen from a storage facility and we rebuilt it. I’ll be sharing our 2019 rebuild in an upcoming post. In 2017, I helped build a Windows PC to run Livestream Studio for my church. Livestream Studio is […]

  • The Joy of Migration

    I recently purchased a MacBook Pro. I was eagerly expecting a seamless setup experience. The experience was not seamless. The good news is I have a working system. The bad news is it took a while to get here. I’m writing my experience to help others who may also be setting up a new Mac […]

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