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How to recover iBooks samples (nerdily) ★ 7 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
I use my iBooks sample queue as a form of future cultural memory. In the past couple years, I’ve collected nearly 75 samples. Who knows? I might read them someday. I recently discovered that iBooks s...
HTTReplay: a Python HTTP recording library ★ 22 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
Are your integration tests moving at a snail’s pace? Is test suite performance getting you down? Good news: I’m here to tell you about httreplay, a tiny new Python library that makes it a snap to rec...
Robots ★ 22 May 2013 | 12:00 pm
A wave of childhood nostalgia hit me as I entered, of all places, the conference room. Five new paintings adorned the walls: I used to have the robot with the dark red jewel-eyes when I was a kid! No...
Content Blogging As Improv ★ 7 May 2013 | 12:00 pm
We played our first game of content improv last night. When an audience shouts out a string of random words, sketch comedians don’t stare back blankly: they leap into action. They find connections; th...
The Area Between The Curves ★ 21 Apr 2013 | 12:00 pm
Big data is what happened when the cost of storing information became less than the cost of throwing it away. — George Dyson My university had impressively old libraries filled with impressively olde...
Get Cloak → 29 Jan 2013 | 09:15 am
Cloak turned 1.0 today! This is our first public, non-beta, no-kidding-around release. We even signed an office lease in Fremont to show just how not-kidding we are. We’re heading down to Macworld E...
The System → 13 Jan 2013 | 06:01 am
Varney Kemokai finds a new way to encourage his Liberian math students. ∞ - Permalink
Jehiah Czebotar's Annual Report → 12 Jan 2013 | 07:01 am
My “report” was a joke told with javascript; Jehiah’s data and use of D3, on the other hand, is truly impressive and cool. ∞ - Permalink
Turkey Shots → 12 Jan 2013 | 05:37 am
Just got back from our wintry trip to Istanbul and other beautiful places in Turkey. I decided to exclusively use my iPhone 4S' camera. This was fun even if the results are… mixed. But take a look. ∞...
My Year In Small Data ★ 26 Dec 2012 | 01:00 pm
I hope 2012 has been a phenomenal year for you! Rather than use words to tell you about my 2012, I decided to abuse D3.js and coffeescript to produce these information-light charts about my life: I ...
