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Double issue 08 September 2014

The three day weekend threw off my schedule last week, so this week you get a double helping.

Weekly roundup 24 August 2014

So the exciting news is that Deana and I made an offer on a house here in Boulder and it was accepted. There’s still plenty that can go wrong but there’s a pretty good chance that we’ll be home owners by the end of the year. Now on to all the horrible stuff I’ve been reading over the last week.

Using Cinder's CameraOrtho and VBOMesh to draw cubes 23 August 2014

I was browsing through OTAKU GANGSTA when I came across this image:

Mostly depressing sentences 17 August 2014

I’m breaking my own rules this week and posting more than a sentence from each link.

Comparing the TriMesh and VboMesh in Cinder 16 August 2014

I’ve been playing around with Cinder trying to make a simple app for drawing isometric images with triangles. I’m still learning my way around OpenGL and the wrapper classes Cinder offers but I like what I’ve seen so far. It’s been a lot of fun doing C++ again after a long time with Ruby and JavaScript.

Late sentences 13 August 2014

Flew out to SF on Sunday and got a bit behind on posting this.

Still more sentences 03 August 2014

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A week of sentences 27 July 2014

Another batch of sentences from interesting articles and videos.

Best sentences I read last week 21 July 2014

I loved how the old staff at the Wonkblog—all of whom moved to Vox—would do posts of the best sentences they read that day. I’m going to try doing a weekly version so here’s the inaugural post.

Final Cut Pro X to 1 Second Everyday via iPhoto 24 June 2014

In my last post I mentioned using my 5D for some of the shots in the 1 Second Every day video. I found it a little complicated to get those from Final Cut Pro X, where I store my video, to the iPhone’s Camera Roll while maintaining the correct date.

Our Year With Ryland 23 June 2014

It’s been a year since Ryland came into our lives. It’s been amazing to watch him grow and turn into a little person. My favorite moment was watching him put out his candle, not the way we expected that to go at all.

Her 14 January 2014

Deana and I went to see “Her” tonight and I can’t say enough good things about it. I whole heartedly agree with Craig Mazin:

Libertarian Paradise 29 December 2013

Every year I look forward to the release of the Year’s Best SF anthologies by David G. Hartwell. I don’t read a ton of science fiction but between reading those and listening to Escape Pod I feel like I’m exposed to a lot of the best stuff.

Identity Theft or How I learned to spell “bureau” 18 December 2013

Sometime back in May, someone in Ohio opened up a PayPal MasterCard in my name. I didn’t figure this out until August when I started getting calls from a debt collectors which, ironically, I ignored because they sounded like identity thieves. After getting several of these calls I eventually called PayPal directly and determined they were genuine debt collectors, and someone else had my SSN and birth date.

Looking Back 23 October 2013

Almost a year after leaving New York, Deana and I finally finished our video about our time there.

VSCOcam is neat 12 September 2013

I’ve been playing around with VSCOcam for the last week or so and, with a brand new blog, it seemed like a good time to post a review.

Hello Jekyll 31 August 2013

It’s been over four years since I’ve made any major change to my website. The last time was when I’d upgraded from Drupal 5 to 6. I built a custom theme using the—then state of the art—960 Grid System and some CSS to give the typography some nice vertical rhythm. I’d considered trying to upgrade to Drupal 7 a few times but just couldn’t muster the energy. I’ve been doing less and less with Drupal over the last two years so switching to something that’s not reliant on a database was appealing.

Problem's with Nate Silver's book The Signal and the Noise 11 August 2013

I was bothered by this passage about the Bluefire supercomputer in chapter 4:

Working at Recurly is awesome 07 May 2013

To celebrate an internal product launch, we took a half-day off and drove up to Tiburon for a long lunch and then rode the ferry back to the city. An awesome day with great people.

Deana's got a blog 10 April 2013

While I knew that Deana had started a blog about being a mom in Berkeley that she’s been working on for a while but—until she asked me to check that video was showing up on it today—I didn’t realize how much she’d been working on it. But now that I know she mentions me on there I added it to my feed reader so I can keep up-to-date.