Blog Posts
Freeway report in production
--Now I'm serving http://bigasterisk.com/freeway/ with a very simple report of a stretch of freeway. More plans in the readme.
Freeway data
--I got an account with the site that distributes the sensor data from the loops in the freeways (pictured here). Here's the first hack, a boring map...
Garage door power usage
--Kelsi and I wondered how much power the garage door opener uses, since we often use it on days when we ride our bikes. I plugged it into a little p...
I think I hate the rememberthemilk.com UI
--This is not the first time I've been completely lost in the RTM UI. On this page, I have no idea what's going on. What is that orange box at ...
Communicating with sunspots
--I finally found that my SunSPOT manager wouldn't find its devices correctly because a shell script (!) that's supposed to gather the device names w...
emacs scroll keys
--I like making the keypad plus/minus keys scroll my emacs window without moving the cursor. For ~/.emacs: (defun scroll-down-keep-cursor () ;; Sc...
MPD web music player
--I started a followup to my wildly successful Twisted python interface to MPD: a web version. The idea is that if you could GET and POST the various...
SHDH 25
--I went to SHDH 25, and because I brought blinking lights, a lot of people stopped to talk to me. My mission was to make python/arduino drivers...
www.hackaday.com browser profiles
--I put a link on www.hackaday.com, and learned that 2/3 of the people who followed the link to my site have 'Firefox' in their user agent strings: ...
Looking for the mouse
--Clay Shirky: "Looking for the Mouse" talk from Web 2.0 Expo This is the best talk I've seen all year. You can read it here, but I recomm...
Bookmarks:
Pixel Liberation Front - Previsualization - Visual Effects
InfoQ: AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution
Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python - Michael G. Noll
SPARQL Endpoint interface to Python
Alex Poole - Literature Review - Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility
DVPmysqlucFederation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day
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