Remembering Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne, skepchickal I remember, for a long time before I met her, wondering what “a wade wit” meant. I remember a Skype conversation, years ago. Adrianne, Phoebe, SJ and I talked for probably three...
View ArticleFitbit
Got a Fitbit One at a garage sale this weekend. $2. It didn’t come with a charger — my neighbor found it inside a new pair of pants from she bought from Nordstrom — but that didn’t stop me. Related...
View Articlefind of the week, October 4
This week’s top garage sale find is a Flip UltraHD camcorder. Once Brighton figured out how to record a video and play it back for Evie, I got my $1’s worth pretty quickly. Related posts: Fitbit “they...
View ArticleScreencasting on Debian: Kazam is good!
I’ve periodically done screencasting and screen recording over the last few years — mostly while running Ubuntu or Debian — and it’s been an evolving pain to find a piece of GNU/Linux screen recording...
View ArticleHello from 2016
It’s been more than a year since I’ve blogged. Sigh. It’s been a good year. I learned Ruby, and I’ve become fluent enough that it’s really fun. I even wrote my first Twitter bot. I started running, and...
View Article(among the) best programming podcasts
Since I started both running semi-regularly and also biking 30+minutes on the Burke a couple times per week, I’ve started listening to a lot of podcasts — mainly focusing on technology (especially free...
View ArticleRails migrations and Capistrano don’t mix
Last night I learned the hard way what happens when Rails migrations break. My main project, the Wiki Ed Dashboard, is set up for automatic deployment — via Capistrano and travis-ci— whenever we push...
View ArticleDiderot — a Pebble watchface for finding nearby unillustrated Wikipedia articles
I published a watchface for Pebble smartwatches that shows you the nearest Wikipedia article that lacks a photograph. Have a Pebble and like to — or want to — contribute to Wikipedia? Try it out! It’s...
View ArticleMoving forward after the election
I’ve been mulling over what happened in the election, and what I should do now. I think these things are key: Just a small difference in turnout would have turned the election around. Any conclusions...
View ArticleI want a better social network
Facebook kinda sucks, and it’s not doing much to foster an informed and politically engaged citizenry. It certainly doesn’t help me to be a better citizen. Here’s what a better social network might...
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