https://joechamdani.com/blog/ Stories, experiences, and lessons learned along the way. Tennis, AI, and the road from Jakarta to Seattle. en-us https://joechamdani.com/blog/ssl-renewal-quietly-died/ https://joechamdani.com/blog/ssl-renewal-quietly-died/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT My VPS renewed its own certificates every night for months. Then one alert told me three sites were about to expire, and the answer I was confident about turned out to be wrong. https://medium.com/@joseph.chamdani/designing-an-ai-system-for-transfer-credit-evaluation-3a6d5c48d63e https://medium.com/@joseph.chamdani/designing-an-ai-system-for-transfer-credit-evaluation-3a6d5c48d63e Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:00:00 GMT The system design behind our hackathon-winning tool that parses WA community college transcripts and maps courses to UW equivalents. https://joechamdani.com/blog/my-journey/ https://joechamdani.com/blog/my-journey/ Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:00:00 GMT How I moved from Indonesia to Seattle at 15, skipped two years of high school, and made it to the University of Washington as a junior in Informatics. https://joechamdani.com/blog/bc-hacks-2024/ https://joechamdani.com/blog/bc-hacks-2024/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 08:00:00 GMT After helping organize and launch BC Hacks 2024, I was invited to give a lecture at Bellevue College about how to run a successful hackathon. This session was specially arranged for a group of 20+ Korean exchange students visiting from Korea.