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Senior SRE at Atlassian. Based in Seattle. All posts are my own personal opinion and do not represent those of my employer(s).

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Sequencing my SNP’s with 23andMe

I just received a spit kit from 23andMe, a biotech company that does genomic SNP analysis. SNPs (pronounced snip; plural snips) are single nucleotide polymorphisms, which are sections of the genome that vary from person to person (humans share almost all of their genomic data with each other, as is common in a species). 23andMe detects your […]

in General, Genetics | January 20, 2015 | 197 Words | Comment

First Chrome Extension

I’m proud to announce my first Chrome extension — Regex Replace. It’s a simple engine to do regular expression replace on pages. No more cloud-to-butt and s/leopard/leopard extensions cluttering your valuable page load time! This extension rolls any regex replacement you want into a simple but elegant package! Check it out in the Chrome Web Store! (And, […]

in Coding, General | January 16, 2015 | 72 Words | Comment

Delete Twilio SMS Updates

I had a bit of a lazy morning in bed today, so in response to the surprisingly numerous emails I’ve gotten expressing thanks (or a desire for instructions of use) for the Twilio SMS and media deletion tool I wrote, I decided to tweak things a bit and make it a bit more usable. Previously, […]

in Coding, General, Projects | January 8, 2015 | 279 Words | Comment

Twilio Frustrations

I’ve been alternately happy and very unhappy with my service from Twilio, a well known company that provides easy SMS and voice capability to applications via its API. You can see a script I wrote to handle a similar but different issue from this post here. When you send SMS to the service, it delivers […]

in Coding, General, Projects | December 24, 2014 | 323 Words | Comment

Tumblr Utility — OwnWords

I’m trying to get more and more comfortable with node.js, and I’m finding it really handy to put together quick command line apps I might otherwise be putting way too much cruft into if I would have used PHP. Today’s utility was one I’ve been meaning to write for a while – it uses the […]

in Coding, General, Projects | December 15, 2014 | 249 Words | Comment

Updates

Just got my grades back – all my classes passed! (WOO!) Life’s been pretty busy the last few weeks coming into finals, so now that I’m on break, it’s weird not having a priority list in front of me. Sometime in the coming weeks, I’ll be implanting my second magnet in my finger. This is […]

in General, Magnet, Medical | December 14, 2014 | 286 Words | Comment

Twilio SMS Deletion Tool

TL;DR twilio-sms-delete is a tool to iteratively delete all SMS and associated media from your Twilio account. Twilio is a great tool for integrating SIP and SMS into your web applications. It’s got a great, simple interface, and API packages for many of the big languages (Python, PHP, JS, etc.). When an SMS is sent with […]

in General | December 3, 2014 | 434 Words | Comment

My Super Scary Halloween Costume

in General | October 31, 2014 | 0 Words | Comment

Danno’s Book Updates

It’s still a closed alpha, but I took a couple hours’ break from studying tonight to hammer out a few new features, especially features that help take DB in the direction I originally intended it – cold analysis of the crimes and locations, and less of a focus on the people and who they are […]

in General | October 27, 2014 | 226 Words | Comment

New Magnet Implant

Fun side note: I just was deemed unable to give blood for right now due to my clotting the needle twice. I’m thinking of becoming a new super hero. PLATELET MAN TO THE RESCUE. It’s been a while since I’ve posted about my magnet implant. It’s still chillin’, mostly subcutaneous, but with a little edge […]

in General | October 21, 2014 | 251 Words | Comment