Victor Zhou

Victor Zhou

Software Engineer. I blog about web development, machine learning, and more topics.

© Victor Zhou 2026

2022 Update

Blogging

A Simple Guide to Dark Mode with Gatsby.js

Web Development

No More Excuses: Lazy Load Your Images

Web Development

Keras for Beginners

Series

Keras for Beginners: Implementing a Recurrent Neural Network

Python

Web Security 101: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks

Security

Web Security 101: An Interactive Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Demo

Security

One-Hot Encoding, Explained

Machine Learning

Year One Recap

Blogging

Easy Visual Question Answering

Machine Learning

Co-Authored by Phillip Wang

A Simple Explanation of the Bag-of-Words Model

Machine Learning

Sendy is Insecure: How Not to Implement reCAPTCHA

Security

Git Aliases I Use (Because I'm Lazy)

Programming

Avoid Premature Optimization

Best Practices

Keras for Beginners: Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network

Python

My First 6 Months of Blogging

Blogging

Minify Your SVGs

Web Development

Neural Networks From Scratch

Series

An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks for Beginners

Machine Learning

A Simple Explanation of the Softmax Function

Machine Learning

Mailchimp to Sendy: How I Cut Email Costs by 100x

Blogging

Keras for Beginners: Building Your First Neural Network

Python

Should You Static Type Check Your Javascript?

Javascript

Using Flow to Type Check a Node.js Codebase

Javascript

A Simple Explanation of Information Gain and Entropy

Machine Learning

CNNs, Part 2: Training a Convolutional Neural Network

Machine Learning

Creating and Selling Multiplayer (.io) Web Games

Game Development

CNNs, Part 1: An Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks

Machine Learning

How to Build a Multiplayer (.io) Web Game, Part 2

Game Development

How to Build a Multiplayer (.io) Web Game, Part 1

Game Development

Random Forests for Complete Beginners

Machine Learning

Why I Replaced Disqus and You Should Too

Web Development

A Simple Explanation of Gini Impurity

Machine Learning

My First 50 Days of Blogging

Blogging

How I Became a Programmer

Programming

Machine Learning for Beginners: An Introduction to Neural Networks

Machine Learning

Properly Size Images for the Web

Web Development

Why Webpack? (or, How Not to Serve Javascript)

Web Development

Can You Find The Bug in This Code?

Javascript

Building a Better Profanity Detection Library with scikit-learn

Machine Learning