The Archive

8/1/2025

A searchable index spanning across the core Symbaroum source books

11/14/2016

This is an exceptionally important article by Laurie Penny. Confronting many of the self indulgent practices of the world and culture of today it is well worth the read.

4/14/2016

I spent some time recently for my job studying software defined radio and these are some of my notes and takeaways.

4/21/2015

2/17/2015

Some musings on what it takes to consistently get great customer service in a world that rarely wants to give it.

2/12/2015

Introduction to a lightweight data Gem I tossed up.

1/12/2015

Thoughts and summation after having recently finished an interesting book which attempts to redeem materialist philosophy.

9/28/2014

My initial take aways after using Ello for a couple days.

9/17/2014

A really cool visualization of the Lake Champlain Watershed created by Matthew Parilla

6/19/2014

In which I borrow ideas from Github as a mechanism to practice my own mediocre skills with D3.js.

4/26/2014

I have finally begun the long journey to 3d modeling

3/24/2014

I created a Ruby Gem called Snapi which helps with dynamic API generation.

3/14/2014

Using a simple Sinatra app to serve an index.html based static site.

3/10/2014

There is a moral imperative underlying the development of open technologies to build the worlds digital infrastructure.

1/18/2014

A weird experiemnt in things that shouldn't be done.

1/3/2014

The title should be fairly self explanatory.

12/31/2013

Jay Silver gives an amazing TED talk impacting how we look at the world and technology.

12/31/2013

I have been involved with a startup company called Pwnie Express since 2010. Here is some of the wisdom I have acquired in that time.

12/23/2013

The result of helping my friend play with some of his bitcoin data.

12/21/2013

A look at the progress I made on the National Novel writing Month challenge.

12/19/2013

An attempt at golfing generation of the fibonacci sequence.

12/18/2013

Create a simple TCP server and client with Ruby Sockets.

12/17/2013

TIL you can create a hash like structure using bashes 'declare'

12/16/2013

... and he'll parse strings for a function ...

12/9/2013

An initial comparison between using native Ruby code versus shelling out to the system and using Unix utils.

12/7/2013

Here are a few tools to help you identify what your linux computer is doing on the network.

12/7/2013

A Caesar Cypher Script implemented in a bash onliner

12/5/2013

A follow up look at the performance implications of using inject(), each() and each_with_object()

12/5/2013

The helpful %i{} method can be used in Ruby 2 to return an array of strings as with %w{}.

12/4/2013

Rubys Enumerable class is one of the most powerful tools the language has to offer. In particular, I love the `Enumerable#inject` method.

12/3/2013

I have a Google Nexus 7 Gen 1 and I have struggled to get it mounted on my Crunbang Linux systems.

11/30/2013

I see no functional difference between computer technology today and the magic of ancient sorcerers. Seriously.

11/27/2013

A humorous poem devoted to the love of a language.

11/27/2013

When working on Rspec tests for Ruby code it can be helpful to run your tests with finite control

11/26/2013

A cool site which creates an open source report card based on your public github activty.

11/25/2013

A simple way that Ruby can be used to manage a reverse SSH tunnel for port forwarding.

11/24/2013

Just a little bit of quirkyness around Ruby String interpolation I've noticed.

11/22/2013

A personal development management strategy I use in my own life.

11/21/2013

A simple introduction to Riak based on a presentation I gave with Sam Stelfox at a Burlington Web Development Group meetup.

11/21/2013

A simple introduction to Elastic Search investigating saving some data and doing simple querying.

11/9/2013

Some useful tricks that I have picked up by writing fiction and non fiction using the Vim text editor.