Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy
As a software engineer who works in a DevOps-ish fashion within a large enterprise environment as the lead of a […]
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How to piss off your users and never be the wiser
I just had an exasperating experience trying to pay my Johns Hopkins hospital bill online, exasperating enough to compel me
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Spinning Up On DCS UH-1H
I got it into my head recently that now is as good a time as any to work on some
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Workflow Tracking
The Financial Times reports that… General Motors was forced on Friday to add a third batch of vehicles to its faulty
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iPhone Progression
I bought an iPhone 5s this week. I acquired an iPhone 4 in November 2010. I was introduced to iPhone
Robotics
Robotics 2013-12-31
At about 1500L today the insectoid walked for its first time. It took several hours to get there. I started
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Optimal Distance
This morning I read the Atlantic piece Finding The Next Edison* in which Derek Thompson touches upon the notion of “optimal
Robotics
Robotics Journal
I just now finished transferring a journal of my robotics work to this here WordPress site to co-habitate with my
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Jihad
Having noticed that the Wall Street Journal was double-billing me, I set about to remedy things, assuming they would be
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True Enough (Some Yak Shaving Required)
“Do you have a stationary bike?”, doc asked, inquiring as to my capacity to do self-directed physical therapy in the
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The Great Forgetting
To The Atlantic Editors, While overall I agree with the thesis of Carr’s November 2013 piece, The Great Forgetting, I
Robotics
Robotics 2013-07-03
Doh! It turns out that all I had to do to make the twitching servo problem go away was to
Robotics
Robotics 2013-06-22
Bangs. Head. On. Desk. Given that there was already a perfectly good program on the micro-controller for swinging a leg
Robotics
Robotics 2013-06-16
So close to having a walking robot that I can taste it… Today was equal parts assembly work and data
Robotics
Robotics 2013-06-08
Alright, here we go: Acquire a miniature breadboard: check Cut, drill, and mount another aluminum sheet to serve as additional platform