April 2012
2 posts
December 2011
2 posts
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Introducing Hipster
Ever since I moved to Santiago, Chile in July, I’ve asked myself “What time is it in San Francisco?” multiple times a day. Sometimes it’s for something practical (knowing whether or not I should be on a conference call) and sometimes it’s for something stupid (figuring out whether or not it would be a good time to tweet because the majority of my followers won’t...
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sushi-motd
The other night I logged into our dev server to check something and got tired of seeing our standard banner, so I wrote a small bash script called sushi-motd.
sushi-motd displays a random piece of sushi ASCII-art whenever you SSH into your server.
You can download it here.
October 2011
1 post
Reboot
Introduction
I had to set-up a new MacBook Pro last week, a replacement for my laptop that was stolen a few weeks ago. If you count the interim laptop that I was using while waiting for my electronics mule to get back to Chile, that will make four Macs this year that I’ve had to get into a state where I can use them. I’ve decided to document this process, mostly as a personal reference but...
June 2011
2 posts
April 2011
2 posts
February 2011
2 posts
RFID Record Player
This is a side-project that I’ve been working on for a while.
Like most people, I have a large collection of digital music, which is awesome, but sometimes I miss the process of physically choosing an album. Also, when you have friends over, it’s a little weird to hand them a laptop and say “Pick an album!”. When you have thousands of artists to choose from, the paradox...
Yelp Success Story
A few years ago, I found myself living in Cambridge, MA. I went to a laundromat and put my clothes in and decided to look for restaurants in the area, when I stumbled across this review:
After reading it, I had to see what he was talking about, so I walked over there, had a terrible meal, and then took a photo and uploaded it to Yelp.
Today, I got this!
This, my friends, is social...