I love music, I love coding and I love coding to music. To stay in flow mode, I’ve found that coding music must: Not have lyrics in it. Something about lyrical music interferes with my ability to reason algorithmically. Not be overpowering. I haven’t found that I’m able to focus when listening to metal or hard rock. Some assorted coding favorites from this year: (To see last years Read the article >>
Click here to access your Chrome Plugins: chrome://plugins or type chrome://plugins into your address bag, and press ‘enter’. Read the article >>
At CES this year, I stumbled into getting an Oculus Rift cv1 (Consumer Version 1) demo. I had heard that the quickest way to turn a VR skeptic into a VR believer is a demo. Turns out I was no different. The Demo Two things that carried the demo: Presence – The device really tricks your brain into thinking you are in the virtual environment. I think that this is a combination of the Read the article >>
About a year ago, my friend Miles and I started organizing informal monthly lunches for startup engineering leaders in Boulder (contact me if you’re not on the list). I’m past the point in my career where there’s much upside to showing up to a random networking happy hour, and have found a recurring informal lunch with high caliber people to be a nice alternative. These lunches have evolved into Read the article >>
I am running the future of tech track at Boulder Startup Week 2016 (May 16-20th). Topics include VR/AR, cryptocurrency, machine learning, chatops, advanced photography, etc. The schedule was just posted. I hope to see you there! Read the article >>
Since I was a teenager, I’ve been interested in learning how things work. For years, that meant learning how computers worked. When I did my first meditation retreat, I started to take that intellectual curiosity and turn it towards my mind. Basically the pursuit of an ever more lucid understanding of the following questions: Why do I think the things I do? Why do I feel the things Read the article >>
I built a cryptocurrency trading framework in January, and open sourced it as ‘pytrader’ 2 weeks ago. Among the wave of interest, there were a handful of cynics: npx writes, on HN: I can’t imagine why anyone would actually want to release a profitable trader. Isn’t this kind of a tautologically dumb thing to do? .. I just can’t see any motivation to make it profitable and then issue a pull Read the article >>
For my last few jobs, I’ve found myself spending a lot of time with stakeholders answering the following questions: When will X be shipped? Who is responsible for Y? Is A a priority above B? What could we be doing better? … and various other manager-ey type things. In each gig, building a shared understanding of the teams workflow, iteration cycles, and development milestones Read the article >>
For the last several years, Snapchat has been a rising star on the mobile application scene. Even though it is now one of the top iPhone apps in the world, it can still be slow for some users. The problem might be that your phone’s data connection is slow …. Your data connection may be the problem. Try: Switching to a wifi connection that’s working for other computers. Do an Read the article >>
I’ve been working on a side project called pytrader for the last several months. pytrader is a cryptocurrency trading robot programmed to work on the poloniex cryptocurrency trading platform. This was a good means of getting some experience with machine learning, quantitative finance, and of course hopefully making some profit. Turns out, I built a system that is able to predict price movements Read the article >>