Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2019-04-01 People of Minnesota: eat the last cookie. Please. Don't leave it, don't cut it in half. You crushed the first 49, finish the job. That's apropos to nothing in this
Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2019-01-01 I moved! And it consumed as much time and energy as you would expect. The new view is great and I'm excited to drink ALL THE BUBBLES on my new
Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2018-10-01 Event and Invitation Managing Software My phone now runs a beta alpha whatever-comes-before-alpha version of my event planning/invitation managing software. I've been using the software for about 6 weeks
Projects, et al Projects and Updates, 2018-07-01 Here's the thing with testing voice interfaces... you sound like you're losing your mind while you're doing it: "Computer, where's my train? Computer, where's MYYyyyy train? Computer, where's mahtrain?
Projects, et al Project Updates, et al: 2018-04-01 Creating an Alexa Skill Sometime in January, I decided I wanted a better way to time my morning commute to work. A few obsessive weeks later, I have an Alexa
Projects, et al Project Updates, et al: 2018-01-01 Event Planning App Everyone has their neuroses. One of mine: I keep slightly obsessive track of whom I've invited to things, if they've responded, if I need to forward them
Projects, et al Project Updates, et al: 2017-10-01 A Spotify Alarm Clock for Raspberry Pi Back in July, I transformed a Raspberry Pi into an alarm clock that plays Spotify playlists. Favorite Part One of my favorite parts
Projects, et al How To: Manually Installing Ghost The software behind CKDSN.com is an open source publishing platform called Ghost. Ghost is great. [note: At some point I decided to have Ghost host/manage the site instead
Projects, et al Project Updates, et al: 2017-07-01 Looking Beyond What's Your Type Despite a new day job (which is a delight) and spring/summer (also a delight), I found some time to figure out one last thing in What's Your Type: retaining data and visual states when a user rotates their
Projects, et al What's Your Type: 2017-04-01 update Project highlights from last quarter Data sorting interface In the first few waves of testing, people overwhelmingly preferred drop-down boxes to a drag-and-drop interface. However, the drop-down test always came after the drag-and-drop test; it's possible users were biased toward whichever interface they saw
Projects, et al What's Your Type: 2017-01-01 update Infrastructure Maintenance All the time I spent playing video games back in the day is finally paying off: I trained my brain to always find more efficient ways to build experience, and that's been a helpful skill to have. Over the past three months
Projects, et al What's Your Type: 2016-10-01 update The devil's in the details software updates Here's a recap of a significant chunk of my last three months: Software: Hey! Do you wanna update me!? It's important to keep your software up-to-date... Me: Sure. But let's do it quickly so I can get
Projects, et al What's Your Type (2016-07-01 update) It's finally time to share more about what the software actually does: What's Your Type is a way to keep track of your crew's Myers Briggs profiles.[1] Screen grabs from Android virtual device, data was randomly generated I talk Myers Briggs with my
Projects, et al Work-In-Progress: What's Your Type What's Your Type is a simple Android app I decided to make my first project for a couple of reasons... What's Your Type is an opportunity to expose myself to Android's version of the SQLite database. I have a future project idea that would
