Events Don’t Exist
In my life, I try to imagine events don’t exist at all. That there will never be some major “thing” that happens which changes anything dramatically in my life. See, I’ve noticed a lot of people go through life waiting…
Using Processing to Generate Christmas Presents
Download the code at Github. As a last minute idea, I decided to write some code to generate my Christmas gifts. If you look above, you can see what the final result was with all the code. I’ve printed out…
Hacking the Human Mind
“The intelligent want self-control, children want candy.” – Rumi Last week I gave a talk about the progress I’ve made on my meditation platform. In it, I went into a little more depth about the whys behind meditation, stressing how…
Hacking Meditation with the Arduino
TLDR; Meditation done right changes your physiology. You can monitor these changes to your physiology using off the shelf components and the Arduino. Learning to meditate sucks, because there’s no way to know whether you’re doing it right. And if…
Good Partners Are Mutually Assured Execution Devices
I had a great weekend this week. I took a beautiful lady out to some of the world’s last remaining old growth cypress forest, went to an independent film festival, and skateboarded with some old friends. I completely forgot about…
I don’t have any idea what a wooden structure is, but I’m building a city.
My people tell me they’re building the houses out of wood, and I heard that wood is scalable. I can’t tell you what my city is going to look like, but I spoke with a lawyer. He said my vision…
From 0 to 10,000 Pageviews In Two Weeks
I took a break from writing for a while. Well, about 5 months to be exact. And my blog readers sputtered to a halt. But my experience interviewing with a company got me so angry, I had to start writing…
Big Hacks In Little Paradise – The Story of the First Naples Startup Battle
It’s 12:30 AM on a Sunday, and instead of being out with friends, I’ve locked myself indoors, busy building the most boring piece of software I’ve ever heard of. Of the team of four people I just met, I’m the…
An Iterative Approach to Building an API – Part 4: Fabric Scripts for Code Deployment
Over the past three days, we’ve stubbed an API in YAML on Tornado, then upgraded to an ElasticSearch backend, and finally, built and deployed a server to Amazon Web Services using Chef scripts. Today, we’ll write scripts in Fabric to…
An Iterative Approach to Building an API – Part 3: Writing Chef Scripts for Amazon EC2 Deployment
If you’re just joining us, over the past two days we’ve written a RESTful API in Python with Tornado and ElasticSearch as our data backend. We started by stubbing out the API data in YAML files, then switched over into…