Side Project: Photo Workflow Tools

Categories photography, sideprojects, tools
I started a side project to automate paro automate (or gracefully degrade into just being more efficient) my photography batch post-processing process. One of the first elements of my photography workflow is to select which photos are worth post-process. To do so, I need to select which of my set of photos to promote to a 'best' subset. This is what it looked like before: This is what it Read the article >>

Slack EmojiBot

Categories future_of_tech, sideprojects, software, technology, tools
Couldn't sleep last night, so I started futzing with an experiment I've been noodling on.  It's called Slack EmojiBot and I built it last night. It's a bot that adds custom emojis your slack team; inline in Slack. 🤔👌 No more putzing around in your web browser. Supports all of the below inline in slack. 👇 Searching google images. 📷 Uploading images to slack's (IMHO hard Read the article >>

Boulder Startup Week 2016

Categories colorado, sideprojects, startups, technology
Boulder Startup Week wrapped up a couple weeks ago. Boy, what a week! These were some of my favorite events. How to CTO The format of this event was 3-4 local CTOs interviewed by Miles Matthias. It was great to hear what some of the up & coming engineering leaders in Boulder are doing.  Audio of these talks will be posted on Exec Podcast. Building Virtual Reality From Boulder Startup Read the article >>

Exec Podcast

Categories engineering, leadership, sideprojects
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 >>

Practical Mindhacking

Categories mind, sideprojects
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 >>

Why Open Source a High Frequency Trader?

Categories community, data, sideprojects, software, technology, tools
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 >>

Agile A La Carte Menu

Categories community, sideprojects, startups
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 >>

pytrader: cryptocurrency trading robot

Categories sideprojects, technology, tools
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 >>