Category: Technology
TV Oscilloscope Part 2
To further test out my TV oscilloscope, I hooked it up to the output from a small stereo. Changes in dynamics and instrumentation were very apparent in the songs I listened to. I find the blue start a... Read More
Arduino IDE keywords
The other day I made my first library (a 7-segment display controller) for my new Arduino Uno, following two nice tutorials. They both mention that it’s a good idea to make a keywords.txt file f... Read More
Java Interpreters
I’m a big fan of the iPython interpreter. I like having an interpreter running while I develop for prototyping and debugging. Since I currently develop in java primarily, I thought I’d tak... Read More
My location over the past year
Recently there has been much ado over the discovery that the iPhone keeps a log of everywhere you’ve been. I choose to push my paranoia aside and focus on the benefits of this: a cool app that l... Read More
Secure Synergy
Synergy is a really cool little program that allows one to share a keyboard, mouse, and clipboard seamlessly between multiple computers. I have it set up at work so that I can use my desktop keyboard ... Read More
Surprises with floating point operations
At work I am currently writing software that calculates some thermodynamic properties of proteins. I recently refactored some of the code and I wanted to make sure that I didn’t screw something ... Read More
Executing commands from TextWrangler/BBEdit
I use TextWrangler occasionally for editing code. It has a well-developed applescript dictionary, so I decided to write a script to execute commands directly from TextWrangler. The following Applescri... Read More