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MealSquares

11/16/2014

UPDATE 3/15/14 As Mr. Stevens points out in the comments, MealSquares has made a lot of changes to their nutritional content since I wrote this – I didn’t expect it to become outdated so quickly, but I guess that’s startups … Continue reading →

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My week of Soylent

10/09/2014

When I heard about soylent, I was cautiously optimistic. But after Ars Technica did a week long review of the stuff (and generally liked it), I wanted some. The thinking was, “I go through 3 boxes of frozen pizza every … Continue reading →

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Different language cultures and their approach to problems: Python – What would Guido do? Ruby – What does rails do? Obj C – What would Apple do? PHP – Is there a function for that? No? Wait… what are you … Continue reading →

07/23/2014 | Leave a comment

Need new background images?

02/15/2014

You may have noticed a friend or a coworker with a fun new sci-fi background theme for windows from GT Graphics and thought “why can’t I have that on my non-windows computer?”. You can! Just go click around from http://www.gtgraphics.de … Continue reading →

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Manufactoria (the language)

09/27/2013

I’ve been playing a game recently called Manufactoria (AKA Finite Automata: The Game) (Spoilers ahead). It’s complicated enough that I created a DSL to represent it, and a Komodo Edit plugin to provide syntax highlighting, indentation, and code folding. Why … Continue reading →

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Why do navigation apps drain your battery?

08/05/2013

I went to a survival run training camp this last weekend (which was awesome!), but I didn’t know if they had power or not, so I didn’t bring my lightning cable[1]. I used Google’s app to navigate the 1.5 hour … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged iOS, rant | 2 Comments

Unsequenced modification and access

07/25/2013

As of this posting, searching Google for the title of this article will provide you with a Link to the patch for the -Wunsequenced flag introduced in C11, but it won’t tell you what this means. So I will. int … Continue reading →

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Resumes, etc

05/07/2013

Applying for jobs is hard for a lot of reasons, but the two I’m annoyed with are: Everything is easy once you’ve done it. If you can describe how hard/awesome it was, you can’t do it more than once on … Continue reading →

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Streaming Audio Between Macs

04/28/2013

Airplay you say? Between Macs, not an Airport Express or Apple TV. Airtunes you say? Well… I’m watching videos and streaming the audio to a different computer because it’s connected to the awesome speakers. And the lag… 2.5 seconds. Seriously.[1] … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged Mac OS | 13 Comments

FreeNAS + Crashplan

03/25/2013

UPDATE FreeNAS moved to github, and I have happily followed them :) You can find my fork at https://github.com/bionoren/freenas (look for build instructions in README-EXTRA on branches I’ve ported), and ISOs and other helpful files at https://github.com/bionoren/freenas-extra. Please report any … Continue reading →

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