I just finished building my new PC, affectionately named Molly. Check out my build gallery!

Healing continues. The site was extremely tender yesterday, and I find myself accidentally using that hand which can put painful pressure on the implant, so I’ve started wearing a sling to stop myself from using that hand. It’s extreme, but I’d rather three days of inconvenience than a rejected implant. 

There’s been minimal swelling and redness at the site. There was 5mm or so of radial redness all of yesterday, but that has diffused today. Considering I’ve had triple antibacterial ointment on it since the implantation, and it’s not warm or discharging anything remarkable, I’m inclined to think that the biggest risk of infection has passed (although I’m watching it closely). 

Really happy – looks like it’s closing with no infection. Fingers crossed it doesn’t extrude!! 

As a break from midterms, I did my NFC implant today. It was fairly unremarkable, except for a brief scare in the middle where some unclear communication resulted in an accidental dismantling of the plunger while a CM deep into my hand. We were able to fix it, though, and the rest went off without a hitch!

I’m doing the transponder implantation this weekend! I will soon be a Near-Field enabled human :D

…for some volunteer work I’m doing, and I realized that vaccinations and needle sticks get a whole lot easier to deal with after you’ve performed surgery on and sutured yourself. 

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Hi world!

I didn’t get as much time to update my site over break as I thought I would, and this quarter is shaping up to be nuts (formal logic and combinatorics, physics of waves and light for engineers, advanced differential equations, and a community outreach course where I’ll be teaching inner city kids video game design).

The Bishop release went swimmingly. I’ve just passed 1300 users on the Chrome Web Store, and there are apparently a couple hundred more who have ported(ish) the extension to Opera that are pulling directly from the repo. It’s exciting to see the feedback I’ve gotten.

Bishop is a Chrome extension-based vulnerability scanner that can automate tedious tasks of hunting for trivial vulnerabilities on your websites as you browse. It’s hassle free, easy to set up, and sits quietly in the background until it discovers something worth telling you about.

It’s been available on GitHub for a while now, but I’ve polished up a release on the Chrome Web Store that just got approved. You might be surprised at how vulnerable your sites are!

FreeStep, the free & encrypted chat platform, has just been pushed to v2.0.0. After a slew of issue submissions and user questions to my personal email (XP), I’ve built in a big chunk of updates in my last hour of procrastination before I drown in finals:

• If your username is mentioned, you can hear an audio alert, and the message is highlighted in red
• Audio alert options are more robust
• Custom Title and Byline options allow you to hide components and brand the app as you see fit
• http(s), ftp, and magnet link texts are all converted to hyperlinks

If you’re looking for encrypted, open source, and transparent collaborative chat, checkout the lightweight FreeStep!