Google IO Day 3
ATAP – future science fiction awesomeness The last day of Google I/O. I go directly to the ATAP line and I’m lucky enough to get in. Trust API The project formerly known as Abacus…
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Google IO Day 2
Commuted to Google IO via the Bay Area Bike share program again. Since there’s only one bike share station near my hotel and only one near Google and there are 7000 developers…
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Google IO Day 1
Google IO day one is over and my feet are killing me. Here are my key take aways for the day: Firebase Firebase has become a key component in the Google ecosystem. What was once a…
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Viva Las Vegas
Day 1. The Dam Day. – March 29 Our first day we leave Las Vegas (doesn’t everyone?) and head out to Hoover Dam to take the Dam tour. It’s a really big dam. We pay our dam money…
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Oasis of the Seas
Both I and my wife reached a certain life milestone this last year that involved the number 4 and determined that it was time we started acting our age. Of the options available…
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Alexa, Amazon Lambda, NASA and avoiding death
A long time ago when they first came out I was going to buy an (Echo)\[http://amzn.to/1SSB73t\]. Then I didn’t. Then they got really cheap so now I have an…
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The Balls Bouncying Around DisneyLand
Trip Log Day 1 We hop off the plane at L.A.X. with a dream and tickets to Disneyland. Welcome to the land of fame, excess, whoa! are we gonna fit in? Waited at the curb for Relay…
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Nasty React React-Router initialization bug
Over the past few days I’ve been tracking down a nasty bug in a React application. It’s the kind of bug that manifests rarely in development but shows up enough on production that…
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Course Setup Using Google Docs and the Canvas API
From my presentation at InstructureCon 2015: About us We’re Atomic Jolt. We build cool stuff. We built some of the very first Canvas integrations using LTI and the Canvas API…
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Mountain Bike Gear Ratios 1x vs 2x setup
I spent some quality time on my Salsa Beargrease and on my Santa Cruz Blur last week. The Beargrease is an awesome bike. It’s a lot of fun to ride and leaves you giggling as you…
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Testing Software Bugs Me
Agile practices have pushed software engineers towards test driven development. The result has been an increase in project velocity and general happiness all around. However, at…
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I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf
Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
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I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf
Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
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I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf
Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
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I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf
Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
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I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf
Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
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I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf
Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
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I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf
Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
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Gifts
It’s January. That means a couple of things: I’ll be forgetting to write the correct year for several weeks. I’m older so the forgetting will probably last for more than several…
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Twitter, update_with_media, and the nasty Twitter::Error::Unauthorized (Could not authenticate you) issue
I’ve been playing around with the Twitter gem – yes this is what I do for fun. I was shocked to find out that all the cool kids are posting photos. I feel so stuck in the dark…