Thanks to the DorkbotPDX blog I found my way onto the website of this year’s IndieWebCamp, which took place in Portland June 25 & 26. Although I was saddened that I wasn’t in town for it, the projects that ended up being developed by the camp immediately grabbed my interest. Although I had never been [...]
Tagged addon, browser, email, facebook, open source, project, social, webAfter getting GPSDrive running on OS X I started looking into different sources for maps. The GPSDrive wiki has a couple of interesting pages about this: one on creating maps and one on map sources. The second page pointed me to the LibreMap Project which has a complete collection of USGS 1:24000 (large scale) topographic maps for the [...]
Tagged free, gdal, gps, maps, open source, program, Programming, Python, script, SoftwareNeal Stephenson’s novel Cryptonomicon is a fascinating book; I’m re-reading it for the umpteenth time and loving it every bit as much as when I first read it in 7th grade. One thing that caught my attention on this reading (especially in light of my recent GPS post) is the way that one of the main [...]
Tagged API, cli, command line, email, gps, Mail.app, program, Programming, Python, script, Software, thunderbirdDisclaimer: This article is for informational purposes, the author shall not be held liable for any actions taken on the basis of the information presented. I do not condone fraud, theft, or other malfeasance. In September 2010, Hans Viksler posted an article about the insecurity of the stored-value smart card system used by Web Laundry (now [...]
Tagged laundry, script, security, smart card, stored valueSo my current project (outside of massive amounts of school work) is building a large, bright, RGB LED display for my college’s weekend-long end-of-year party. I’ve got three of these strips from DealExtreme, which have 30 RGB LEDs in separable strips of three LEDs. That makes for a total of 30 RGB dots, which is [...]
Tagged display, diy, Electronics, LED, Programming, project, RainbowduinoHave you ever had one of those days when you bought a keyboard for no good reason? Well I did the other day, and ended up with an “Irocks Chocolate Key Style Slim Keyboard for Pc with Elegant Body”. It felt like a steal — I got it $12.99 with free two day shipping. It [...]
Tagged amazon, cheap, computer, Electronics, keyboardWhen my girlfriend came across this erotic alphabet, the first thing she wanted was to be able to spell out various things with it. Add a pinch of python and php and the result is the Erotic Alphabet Image Generator. The source code of the script used to generate the images is available here.
Tagged alphabet, erotic, font, generator, program, sex, text, webSo, I know that I’ve been harping on this a bit, but I’ve re-written my M-Set renderer in C, so it’s faster, and I’ve added a few more command line flags to make it easier to use. Get the code here.
Tagged cli, command line, mandelbrot, Math, program, Programming, SoftwareI just recently revisited the M-Set code from my Perl Snippets post. The code I had was pretty ugly, so I decided to rewrite it in Python. The result is not only a lot cleaner and easier to understand, but it’s also a lot faster: $ time python mandel.py > \dev\null real 0m0.051s user 0m0.036s [...]
Tagged cli, command line, Math, program, Python, script, SoftwareI’ve been getting into a mood lately that makes me fiddle around with fun Perl stuff, but sadly school’s picking up to the point that writing anything up isn’t going to happen. However, I have a couple short scripts that I’m just dying to share. Just Another Perl Hacker I figured that it was about [...]
Tagged cli, command line, japh, m-set, mandlebrot, Math, obfuscation, Perl, program, Programming, script