Writing

Blinky

An electronics kit that makes it easy for people to start building their own hardware from scratch

Trianglify

Thoughts on my first popular project, and why it matters.

Portland Startup Weekend: Takeaways

How my team succeeded at Startup Weekend.

Happy April First

April Fools' is one of my favorite days. Here are some ways I like to celebrate.

Atom Initial Impressions

Breaking in GitHub's new text editor.

Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science

Theoretical understanding is great, but fundamentals are just as important.

404 Page

I have a spiffy new 404 page.

5 Examples of Great Minimal Jekyll Blog Designs

Inspiration and ideas from a few of my favorite hacker blogs.

Ruby Whitespace Shenanigans, Hello World Edition

A (somewhat silly) post about using Unicode whitespace in Ruby.

My Personal Project Recipe

The goals that I keep in mind to make sure that my side projects end up being interesting and successful.

3D Polar ListPlots in Mathematica

Mathematica doesn't have a built in way to produce 3D plots from polar coordinates. Fortunately, the workaround is simple.

Winning PDX Startup Weekend

Success at a 54-hour hackathon, and how the experience translated (or didn't) to the real world.

My Jekyll Drafts Workflow

My solution to writing draft Jekyll posts, using a single git branch.

Troubleshooting Is Learning

Some thoughts on why troubleshooting is important, and what that means for programming courses in higher education.

Bare Bones Vertical Text Centering with JQuery

I had a problem with a responsive column layout where multiples lines of text needed to be vertically centered inside the columns no matter how tall they were. This JQuery snippet fixed it.

A Better @font-face Kit for Open Sans

The @font-face kits I've seen for Open Sans all suck. So I built a better one.