Fractio
Fractio: a socket-based distributed Mandelbrot calculator Fractio is a refinement of my distributed mandelbrot calculator from a few years ago. This version uses sockets to manage the communication between the…
Read moreFractio: a socket-based distributed Mandelbrot calculator Fractio is a refinement of my distributed mandelbrot calculator from a few years ago. This version uses sockets to manage the communication between the…
Read moreOkay, the real reason I went to Seattle was to interview at Amazon for a developer position on their Kindle Cloud Reader project. I should preface this by stating that…
Read moreNorth: 12 prongs +—+—+—+—+—+—+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +—+—+—+—+—+—+ | | | |…
Read moreBack in 1983, my uncle Bruce came up with a fun board game played with dice. My dad made a nice wooden board for it and Bruce got a write-up of the the game published in Gameplay Magazine. Fast forward to 2006 and I made a playable web version of the game; it was the first web application that I finished, and even now, I’m a bit impressed in using it.
Read moreI open sourced my Yahoo Open Hack NYC 2009 entry into a github project called fractile. It’s currently only one php file with embedded Javascript at the moment. Feel free…
Read more[update] Just fixed a bug that was preventing this from working in most browsers. Go ahead and give it a try now. I made this browser-based Mandelbrot set zoomer for…
Read moreMy hipper-than-thou grandmother asked for comments on this article provoked by the 40th anniversary of the internet and the issues regarding the erosion of the openness that the internet was…
Read more[update: looks like premailer changed their interface a little, which broke my domain-level meta-interface for it. I’ll fix it sometime, just not now :(] Premailer is a nifty ruby script…
Read moreI designed and partially built a projector about a year ago. I found these plans in my files and thought I’d post them. Download the full plans in Google Sketchup…
Read moreI find it a bit ironic that this green-themed marketing campaign instructs people to print a sheet of paper for personal amusement. It’s still pretty cool. See my solution to…
Read moreAfter playing with this code and this demo of a javascript mouseover zoom effect, I decided to take the magnifying glass effect one step further and add some refraction: It…
Read moreGoogle just finished converting my GrandCentral account to their new Google Voice service. Try calling me with this nifty widget:
Read moreThis page explains how to decipher many of the cryptic expiration dates found on food containers. This is very useful, but it occured to me that it would be even…
Read moreMy great grandfather designed, built, and sold something called the “Hallock Chemical Truck”. I managed to get some video footage of one of their depression-era marketing campaigns. Click “read more”…
Read moreAs part of a research and writing project in my Junior year, I wrote an explanation of template metaprogramming in C++ and how it relates to the functional programming paradigm.
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