Blinky
An electronics kit that makes it easy for people to start building their own hardware from scratch
Writing
Some of my thoughts and opinions about life, technology, and education.
An electronics kit that makes it easy for people to start building their own hardware from scratch
Thoughts on my first popular project, and why it matters.
How my team succeeded at Startup Weekend.
April Fools' is one of my favorite days. Here are some ways I like to celebrate.
Breaking in GitHub's new text editor.
Theoretical understanding is great, but fundamentals are just as important.
I have a spiffy new 404 page.
Inspiration and ideas from a few of my favorite hacker blogs.
A (somewhat silly) post about using Unicode whitespace in Ruby.
The goals that I keep in mind to make sure that my side projects end up being interesting and successful.
Mathematica doesn't have a built in way to produce 3D plots from polar coordinates. Fortunately, the workaround is simple.
Success at a 54-hour hackathon, and how the experience translated (or didn't) to the real world.
My solution to writing draft Jekyll posts, using a single git branch.
Some thoughts on why troubleshooting is important, and what that means for programming courses in higher education.
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.
The @font-face kits I've seen for Open Sans all suck. So I built a better one.