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the state of things (july 28, 2013)

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Post date July 28, 2013
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Built this little guy at the last Yelp hackathon

hi internet

Yelp had a hackathon this past Thursday and Friday. Zak and I built a pretty neat whale using three.js. I tried to get it up on S3 but it only kinda works in firefox and completely bombs on webkit browsers…will have to figure that out. In the mean time here’s an old video of our last hackathon project: Bleep Bloop, I am code companion.

Still working on my picture-a-day project. Finally figured out how to load and scale all the images in a directory using Clojure. Always frustrating to do stuff with a new languge at first but it’s starting to feel good in my brain.

Carry on, internet friend. And, as always,

have a great week!

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the state of things (july 7, 2013)

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Post date July 7, 2013
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hi internet

A lot has happened since last post! Robin’s parents came to visit and they rented a really awesome cabin up by Ashland, Oregon that we chilled at.

It’s really pretty up there and you can do awesome, extreme things like white water rafting.

Back in San Fransico Pride happened. You can’t see it very well in the panorama but there’s a really neat pink triangle up on Twin Peaks.

And other random things:

bitcoins? yes, bitcoins! If you live in America and have a checking accont, just use coinbase to get some.
I’ve been watching Democracy Now! lately. It’s a good news source. If you want to torrent it just go directly to their tracker site.
Sven sent out a good inbox zero link. Which led me to a new favorite website: http://www.doitfuckingnow.com.
Got a used Samsung Nexus S off of ebay and installed replicant on it. It’s been a lot of fun!
Robin took some fantastic photos of the fourth of july fireworks in sf bay.

have a great week!

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the state of things (june 16, 2013)

Post author By Chapman
Post date June 16, 2013
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On a scale of one to bear...I am bear. — On a scale of one to bear…I am bear.

hi internet

Oh man…totally sucked at keeping this thing up to date 🙁 Have a picture of me in the Muir Woods posing like a wooden bear!

Things have been going well out here in SF. I have bunch of pictures and videos uploaded to the blog and will try to start putting them up. Yelp‘s been Yelping real good. I’ve helped build a few things but there are a bunch of teams pushing out really cool enhancements all the time.

A couple of other random things:

After abondoning Trisquel 5.5 for a while for Ubuntu I’ve been using Trisquel 6.0 and have been very happy with the release. Give it a shot if you’re looking for a fully free distrubtion.
I saw this project for hardware bitcoin wallets on hacker news and got interested in bitcoin again. It’s a little weird creating an account on a site that used to be a Magic the Gathering card exchange but I think it’ll be really fun to try out.
My think penguin laptop is still running strong…but I am really jealous of this new high-res laptop they’re putting out now. Wants.

have a great week!