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Boulder Startup Week 2016

Boulder Startup Week 2016

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 >>
Oculus Rift cv1 First Thoughts

Oculus Rift cv1 First Thoughts

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 >>
Why Open Source a High Frequency Trader?

Why Open Source a High Frequency Trader?

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 >>
pytrader: cryptocurrency trading robot

pytrader: cryptocurrency trading robot

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 >>
adblock-to-bitcoin: Publishers Wanted

adblock-to-bitcoin: Publishers Wanted

UPDATE 1/11/2016: Check out ad block to bitcoin's wordpress plugin and chrome extension. Dear Publisher, Yesterday, adblock-to-bitcoin was introduced to the world as the first purely open source, soup-to-nuts, solution for publishers to accepting micropayments.  The project was covered in Wired, the Daily Decrypt, and generated plenty of comments on Hacker News. Not bad for a project that Read the article >>
Monetize Adblocked Space with Bitcoin

Monetize Adblocked Space with Bitcoin

UPDATE 1/11/2016: Check out ad block to bitcoin's wordpress plugin and chrome extension. I built a fun little tool that turns ads into bitcoin donation solicitations when adblock is enabled. So becomes: If you're into supporting publishers as they transition to the new economy, micropayments, or bitcoin in general, check it out here: https://github.com/owocki/adblock-to-bitcoin Read the article >>
Weekend Project Report: Cryptocurrency Mining Rig

Weekend Project Report: Cryptocurrency Mining Rig

I've been cautiously optimistic about BlockChains since Boulder Startup Week 2016 when I had core contributors of both Zcash and Ethereum presenting at one of the Future of Tech Events.  Trustless decentralized financial instruments have the potential to be an 'internet of money' and massively disrupt the financial system. Several months ago, I wrote and open sourced pytrader -- a cryptocurrency Read the article >>
Recruitment is Good; Common Recruiter Tactics Are Bad.

Recruitment is Good; Common Recruiter Tactics Are Bad.

There truly is market value in helping folks find new careers.  Technical recruiters have the potential to be the grease in the wheel of the new economy, to help people achieve better, bigger, things with their skills;  To uplevel their salaries, to life them out of poverty.  And to help companies uplevel their teams and their products.   But if one separates the *tactics* from the *endgame* Read the article >>
Reduce LinkedIn Spam with this Profile Headline

Reduce LinkedIn Spam with this Profile Headline

If like me, you are a software engineer, you probably also get LinkedIn recruiter spam. I don't mind getting messages from folks who have read my profile and my twitter, considered my the best fit for my talents within their clients, and crafted a message to me.  But LinkedIn messages from recruiters are not like that.  They are spray-and-pray messages dogshit from folks who haven't even read Read the article >>
Recommended Books from my Asia Trip

Recommended Books from my Asia Trip

I just got back from a 3 week Asian trip where I had a lot of time available to do some in-depth reading. Here are some book recommendations: Sum (40 tales from the alterlive) -- 2 hour read - Fiction -- 40 whimsical short stories about what the afterlife might be like. Physics 100 Years into the future -- 5 hour read - Fiction -- Exactly what it sounds like The Water Knife -- Read the article >>