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WORC Foods website animation

WORC Foods website animation — building an animation to illustrate the concept behind the WORC Foods foodtruck

Twitter for Hipster

Twitter for Hipster — tl;dr; I made a web extension that removes all the really popular tweets from your timeline. You can install it for Firefox, and view the open source code here. As I've been reading Twitter I've ...

Amplifying Yeast

Amplifying Yeast — In this time of minimally available yeast, it's important for bakers to extend their yeast supplies a bit. Many have turned to sourdough, but if you don't eat bread every day, feeding a sourdough starter ...

Building a Virtual Black Rock City

Building a Virtual Black Rock City — When Burning Man announced that they were canceling the party in the desert this year, they hinted that they wanted to try to make an online Black Rock City experience. But as others have mentioned, ...

Quantum Multiverse Bifurcator

Quantum Multiverse Bifurcator — Update: by some mind-blowing coincidence the theme of next year's Burning Man happens to be the Multiverse! Note that what follows was all written before the theme was announced. My partner and I went to ...

Creating Immediacy

Creating Immediacy — I'm filled with a constant sense of urgency right now. Each day I feel a little more of my time burning away from me. There is no guaranteed tomorrow so I want to do what ...

Human Ivory Earrings

Human Ivory Earrings — Ever since working on my partner's engagement ring last year, I've become more and more interested in making custom jewelry for people. Recently, I happened upon another interesting raw material, and I decided to see ...

@rtifice Website Revamp

@rtifice Website Revamp — A few months ago, a non-profit I volunteer for @rtifice tech education, needed to get its digital face revamped. I spent a few weeks working on a full website and blog revamping. Page loads and ...

Engagement Ring from Found Smoky Quartz

Engagement Ring from Found Smoky Quartz — Sometimes you try something that you're just sure will never work, yet somehow, even though you almost can't believe it, things work out just perfectly. When my fiancee, Claire, and I talked about getting engaged, ...

Text Mining and Natural Language Processing on Health Forums

Text Mining and Natural Language Processing on Health Forums — As part of the Insight Health Data Science Fellowship, I just got to spend the last 3 weeks working on a pretty fun project applying natural language processing to medical health forums. The goal is ...

Star Wars Themed Settlers of Catan

Star Wars Themed Settlers of Catan — I have been wanting to get a Settlers of Catan game for ourselves ever since I played it for the first time a few months ago. It looked like an incredibly simple game setup so ...

Q&A on the Route Crime Calculator

Q&A on the Route Crime Calculator — I've recently built a cool little web app that helps evaluate the number of crimes occurring along a person's travel route in the City of Chicago. To elaborate a little on the rationale and methodology, ...

Procrastinating with a Time Optimization Game

Procrastinating with a Time Optimization Game — I've got to admit, I'm majorly busy at this time of year. But today, I'm deciding to procrastinate by writing a post on—ironically enough—a game about optimizing your use of time! The Background If you've ...

tweet_note: An unfakeable timestamp notebook

tweet_note: An unfakeable timestamp notebook — I have a confession. I don't like tweeting that much. I always feel like I sound like an idiot. And with tweets, I run into the possibility of sounding like an idiot at a much ...

#ActsOfSuperness Twitter Game

#ActsOfSuperness Twitter Game — Three days ago at about 3 a.m. I woke up with an idea to make people be nicer to each other. I know it might sound kind of corny, but I wanted to build a ...

A Better LinkedIn

A Better LinkedIn — I've been wanting to fix my old paper resumé's abhorrent lack of data visualization with an interactive web version. And since I'm about to hit the job market anyway, I figured now is the perfect ...

Graph Theory of Wall Decor

Graph Theory of Wall Decor — This is just a short post about a hallway wall decoration I made over the weekend. It's supposed to resemble a network graph, linking the different pieces together. Basically I had a lot of unrelated ...