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ScreenShop Demo at 500 Startups WMD 2015
The folks at Comedy Hack Day reached out and asked Dan, Toby and myself to get the band back together to do the ScreenShop demo for the 500 Startups conference: “Weapons of Mass Distribution”. Unfortunately Toby was in New York and couldn’t make it, but fortunately I got all his lines!
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Life as a Gopher
It seems like discussions about Go (or Golang), Google’s new-ish, C-like, programming language, are everywhere these days. I’ve been using Go in my free time to work on little projects for the last few months and thought it was time to jot down a few thoughts on the language. Background I find in articles like this even a short amount of background helps color the views.
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Screenshop - My Team’s Comedy Hack Day App
Comedy Hack Day was a pretty freaking cool experience all around and made better by the following: With my background in both tech and comedy (writing), I’ve been dying to do Comedy Hack Day for a while now and just couldn’t make it work with my schedule. My team (the three of us just randomly formed in the chaos) worked our asses off to get a demo and an iOS app (I had to learn Objective C on the fly) just in time.
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Android Wear and an Update on My First Android App
Over the Christmas holiday I dove in head first with Android Wear, and by that I mean I both bought a watch and developed an app (which of course, means it’s a stupid silly app as that is all that I make in my free time). So now, two months later, I figured it would be a good point to step back and see if it was a good move or just a project for my time off of work.
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I Got a 3D Printer
I’m one of those 3D printer guys now. It happened a few weeks ago when my Solidoodle Press finally arrived only after a quick 3 - 4 month delay. Since then I’ve printed something right after plugging it in that looked awesome…but then I learned that it looked “OK”…then I learned how to calibrate it…then I learned how to switch to better software…then I learned how frustrating 5 or 6 failed prints in a row are…then I learned how to install Windows on a Mac so I can install different 3D printing software…then I learned that Windows wasn’t so bad if it helped me to stop making weird plastic things I throw in the trash…then I learned that looking for the next thing to print is exhausting.
Read moreNot So Unlimited Vacation Policy
It's not wrong, but you should be aware about the deal you're making.
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Sentence Saver for Beats Music
Ever since I made my little Clojure wrapper for the Beats Music API, I was on the lookout for a companion project where I actually use the library the make an app. I know, a totally 100% novel idea. I just deployed a little web app I’m calling the Sentence Saver for Beats Music, and it solves the problem of being able to enjoy the Beats Music “The Sentence” feature (basically their radio feature) while offline by giving you the ability to request a sentence and then having those tracks made in to a playlist.
Read moreBeats Music Likes My Clojure Library
I’ll do a full post on the library some time soon. In the meantime, check it out: http://mikeflynn.github.io/beats-clj/ @mikeflynn_ created a Clojure library, now on the developer portal https://t.co/XgTD39uQ5E #beatplatform #clojure — Beats Platform (@beatsplatform) June 19, 2014
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A Follow Up on the STLToday Paywall Story
Yesterday’s post about how to bypass the weak STLToday.com paywall has gained a fair bit of traction over the last 24 hours. Here’s the story on the Riverfront Times (the alt newspaper in St. Louis). Before this gets further out of hand I wanted to address a few points that I didn’t hit in my original blog post and weren’t in the RFT article:
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