August 2010
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June 2010
21 posts
It's MJs all the way down...
Best Location Aware Android App →
This program is great. Create events (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) that trigger arbitrary tasks. This app does so much more than Locale, and for the time being it’s free. When it goes commercial, I wouldn’t hesitate throwing >$10 at it.
Leaving my apartment, my GPS switches on, WIFI off, and ringer to buzz. Coming back (~50m of apt), my GPS turns off, WIFI on,...
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7" Android Tablet - $99 →
Picked up one to use as my media center controller. I’ll do a quick review when it gets here.
@johncwarren
Yeup, not a lot has changed! Except that everything is in the browser.
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It was a slow work day. So I made a 3D starfield!... →
What the hex? →
A social savings account! 2.15%. Neat.
“In my view, not only is science corrosive to religion, religion is corrosive to...”
– Richard Dawkins (via sixtyforty) (via invictvs)
May 2010
8 posts
Simple JSON Proxy for NodeJS →
jsonpify:
An example of how to run your own little proxy server.
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Amazing Mural of Nails →
By nail artist, Saimir Strati.
Anonymous asked: When and where was Dawkins quoted saying the above?
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
– William Butler Yeats
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not...”
– Richard Dawkins
March 2010
8 posts
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“Next thing you know they’ll take your thoughts away.”
– Dave Mustaine
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Message Passing 101 – Evasion Demo →
First jQuery Entropy Demo - A Simple Window Widget →
People have been asking me how to use jQuery Entropy, so I threw together a quick demo. More to come!
JSONPify.com →
A JSONP Proxy for external web services. Built with NodeJS and nginx!
Usage is simple. Make a GET request to:
http://jsonpify.com/api?url=XXX&format=xml&jsonp=mycallback
url: the URL of the web service. Use encodeURIComponent if you are passing along parameters.
format: json (default), xml, text
jsonp: your jsonp callback. default: jsonp()
New Portfolio →
My site was long overdue for an overhaul. Since I’ve been reading and learning about NodeJS, I figured I’d throw the backend together using Node and the Express framework. It was a breeze! I have a couple Node daemons running on my 380MB linode as upstart processes — all funneled through nginx. To top it off, I’ve got monit configured to make sure things stay afloat. The...
February 2010
2 posts
jQuery Entropy →
My latest JavaScript/jQuery plugin. Info and demonstration coming soon.
“We’re standing on the shoulders of giants here – combining ideas from Prototype’s behaviour & lowpro and jQuery’s effen & livequery (who themselves stole ideals from Self’s Morphic UI and others), but extending & combining the concepts presented in those tools to provide a complete alternative to traditional OO...
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BusBound (iPhone Public Transit Tracker) →
An iPhone web application concept that fetches up-to-the-minute data from Trimet (Portland, OR public transit) based on geolocation. Only renders well on the iPhone. Technology used: NodeJS, express library, dbslayer, jQTouch, and nginx. 100% JavaScript.
November 2009
2 posts
September 2009
3 posts
Getting better at mixing and quantizing drums....
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Running Blind - No. 7 - Found some MP3s of my old...
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Get Endgame! September 15th. →
A 15-year old from the Megadeth fanclub and I threw this site together to promote Megadeth’s latest album — Endgame. Was a fun little project!
August 2009
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Megadeth - Endgame Countdown for Facebook →
Megadeth forum members wanted a way to display a countdown on Facebook profiles. I wrote a quick app during my lunch break.
June 2009
2 posts
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Wesley Willis Tweetbot →
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webfl.at →
A simple URL shortener. Might make it pretty and add analytics.