My latest hobby/focus/obsession has been mead, and man, I’ve been having so much fun sinking my teeth into the art and science — already made 3 gallons and just started a 5.5 gallon batch. To track what’s at what step, what my recipes are, and to do some helpful conversions, I made Mead.Kiwi, a site […]

TL;DR: I’ve learned things, built things, got employed at a thing, was sad about and thought about things, and am happy about things. Ohai there. I said I’d post with what I’m up to over my break, so here are things: I got a job with an awesome data viz company which cares about the people they join […]

Today marks the end of two summers of interning with Facebook; I’ll be going away for a week and then the job hunt begins with a mess of interviews. I’m so proud of my time at FB — the friends I’ve made, personal challenges faced, and skills developed. To tell the truth, I’m not really […]

Hey y’all. This has been a long and tiring (and sleepless) week, so in my restless hours, I built a web app to help you unplug, breathe deep, and recenter. Hope you like it. Head to defuse.xyz –>

[trigger warning: pretentious thinkpiece] Tonight I was speaking with a new friend and the topic of what we do with our free time came up. In the course of describing what I do with my down hours (usually, coding), I realized I had never actually verbalized my reason behind this to anyone but her until […]

And no, it’s not my brain. nope forcibly shuts down your computer down like pulling out the plug. No shut down process, no graceful halt, just a crash and burn. Because sometimes you just gotta say, ‘nope.’

Hi all. New implant tonight. I’m zonked so not much fanfare, but it’s an xEM that lets me clone contactless access cards (like cards to get into buildings, gym, etc.). Check out the video here (don’t need a FB account to watch).

…because I make things like this. I have no regrets. https://jkingsman.github.io/TheProclaimers/

As you may or may not have heard, the CIA has recently had a major document trove released about the works of CCI in Langley. There are lots of analyses of the technical aspects (including on the leak homepage). Politics aside, I’m mainly enjoying seeing the internals of a different developer/company/government culture — some of […]

This is a little half hour project I built before bed since I was itching to code something that wasn’t horribly frustrating (thanks, Compilers class…). This replaces text as you type with user-defined replacements a la iOS. It’s simple but super nice if you prefer emojis or use text shortcuts (‘shrug’ becomes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  on my system). Github. […]