Archive for 'dev'

Interactive music with arduino and sheevaplug, part 1

Recently someone from the hacklab put up a note saying that he had a SheevaPlug to give to a good home. I jumped on the offer. Thanks again, Brian! I’m going to be blogging a little bit about what I’m doing to show that I do have a good home for it. The first thing [...]

Greasemonkey script for Torontonian Goodread users

Image by rb3m via Flickr This target market is pretty specific, I know, but I wrote a script to make searching for books at available at my local library more easy while browsing Goodreads. I’m starting to use Goodreads to track what I’m reading and also find suggestions from friends.

CrisisCampTO

Yesterday was the first CrisisCamp in Toronto. I heard about it from Jacqui Maher‘s presentation at CUSEC, and I decided to attend not really knowing what to expect. It turned out that there were six projects to tackle, and I tried to help with the machine translation project. The idea was to provide an easily [...]

Worthwhile vim tips

David Wolever is the man who made me productive in vim. Not from the ground up, mind you. I already knew the basics from my internship like how to swap between modes. I’d internalized that each string of keystrokes forms a command with a verb[0] and, if applicable, movement keys. It was enough to use [...]