Working on a project for my wife to create an abstract representation of a modern dance piece to project behind the live performance. If it all works out I’ll post a video of the performance. I’m writing the app in Processing with the OpenCV library (the v2 beta because the movie() function wouldn’t work for [...]

Last month I ditched rdiff-backup (which saved my bacon on a number of occasions) for CrashPlan+ with the Family Unlimited plan so I can backup all of our computers (one Ubuntu desktop, two Macs) locally and offsite. Used their seed service. Already had to do a small restore. Love it. Works great. The only problem I’ve [...]

Amazon sure makes it hard to terminate your App Store account. Because they don’t allow you to delete apps, I manually edited each section of my app profile with blank information. Then, on the Help menu of the developer portal, there’s a Contact Us choice and one of the subjects you can choose is “Contract [...]

I loved playing Zork. And there’s always been a special place in my heart for grues. So naturally I made my 404 page into a text adventure toy with grues. Give it a try. Do I win the prize for geekiest 404 page ever? It’s Javascript. It understands a handful of verbs and nouns (and one [...]

For a long time I’ve wanted a bug tracking system that didn’t feel like a chore to use. Something fast and effortless where I could create a bug report and get back to what I was doing without destroying my flow. There are plenty of bug tracking systems out there. Conventional wisdom says it’s better [...]

A couple of weeks ago I received a note from a person I’d never met or talked to before. He was writing just to say thanks, to tell me that some software I had written was being used and that it made his life, in a small way, better. That totally made my day. I [...]

There is a noticeable “Lightroom gap” for Linux photographers. The open source project with the best chance of filling that gap at the moment is probably RawTherapee. But RawTherapee won’t be a serious contender for at least a few years. Which is no knock against RawTherapee—it’s just that Lightroom has a significant head start and [...]

The word “lifestreaming” feels overly broad and I do a mental eye roll every time I say it, but I’ll use it for now for the sake of expediency. So I’ve been using Flickr and Delicious forever and Twitter for a while and Google Reader and all of these services are great and let me [...]

These are the icons I created for kidsweatherreport.com. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner, but it just struck me today to package them up and distribute the source files under a Creative Commons license (cc-by). The license allows you to do anything you like with the images including modifying them and [...]

I’ve been using a couple of bash scripts for a while to manage my password collection (over 100) and I thought I’d share them since I find them very useful. They’re BSD licensed so you can do whatever you want with the code. Click here to get ‘em.