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 becomes the Trust API. The purpose is to eliminate the hassles of passwords an mult-factor authentication. It will be available to…
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 here I was worried there wouldn’t be any bikes. Nothing to worry about. I’m pretty sure I’m the only one using the bike…
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 real time database is now a platform for your entire infrastructure and application business development needs. Today there were…
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, ask a few dam questions and wait in a dam line to watch a dam movie. We…
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 we chose a cruise and so it would seem we are at “that” age. I have been known at times to require…
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 (Echo)[http://amzn.to/1SSB73t]. It’s the weekend and I’ve been writing a crazy amount of code for one of our projects. I needed a break. My son needed to…
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 Ride to pick us up, here we are for the fifth time. Look off through the smog, and…
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 users hate you for it. At first we couldn’t reproduce it which means we couldn’t fix it. Then by luck and frustration…
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. We’ve been doing this as long as Canvas has been around. Anything you want Canvas to do that it doesn’t already do we’ll make it…
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 bounce along the trail. It is however, fat. That doesn’t mean it’s slow but it is more bike to…