Have you ever wondered how your driving habits affect your gas mileage? How do the different routes you can take to work differ in fuel efficiency? How much does a single commute to work cost? These questions are hard to answer without good data. As part of my efforts to…
When I first wrote about Google's new Gmail API, I really only focused on its applications to write better email clients, but I didn't really touch on how it would apply to other sets of applications. A developer could make any number of applications that did…
Yesterday, during Google I/O, there was a post made to the Google developers blog about a new GMail API that was being rolled out. While it was not mentioned in the keynote (at least not that I heard), I think it is one of the coolest things that was…
Bitcoin has been around for a long time. Since 2009, in fact. I had hear about it when I was in college and I had friends that bought and mined some, but I never got involved with it because I saw it as too risky. I didn't have…
Recently, a new service called Keybase was launched by a couple of the co-founders of OKCupid. I recently got an invite to the service (even though I only vaguely knew what it did) and so I decided to look into it. In essence, Kaybase is a service built around PGP.…
If you can't tell by the dates of recent posts, I have been neglecting my blog recently. I had a goal of writing 4 posts per month and obviously I did not make that. Still, I was able to do some project work and I have done a…
Tonight, I am going to my first meetup for what I am calling Code Bash. It is not a terribly original idea, but after going to PyOhio, a Python developer conference, my friends and I had the idea that we wanted to work on projects more and that we missed…
Today I decided to take the time to do some updates to my blog layout and design based on some suggestions by Matt Gemmell in his recent article on Designing Blogs for Readers. In his article, he outlines a number of steps that can be made to improve the readability…