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I backed the digispark kickstarter earlier this year, which makes super cheap little Arduino-speaking USB sticks. My first project was to hook it up to a motion sensor I had lying around, and now my monitor turns on automatically when I sit down in front of my computer. I can also imagine having it take… Continue reading I backed the digispark kickstarter[1] earlier this year, which makes super cheap little Arduino-speaking…

DriveCode Self Relient Text Editing for Drive. I spent a couple days making a text editor for Google Drive. Quite minimal at the moment, but fun to see how the various Google APIs are meant to fit together. This was posted on Google+…

Alot of pumpkin. Inspiration from Hyperbole and a Half This was posted on Google+…

Cory Doctorow stopped by the UW to talk about tech policy issues this afternoon. Promoted us to develop new takes on opportunistic encryption to improve privacy, and on the need for privacy as a differentiator for applications. He feels, I think rightly, that there is a distinct lack of code being written solving privacy problems. His take… Continue reading Cory Doctorow stopped by the UW this afternoon

The FreeDOM paper I wrote with +Raymond Cheng is available online. FreeDOM.pdf HotNets-X: Program This was posted on Google+…

HMC @ CSE Eighteen Seattle-area Harvey Mudd College alums socialized last night with HMC President Maria Klawe in the Jaech Gallery at UW Computer Science & Engineering. Many are UW CSE Ph.D. students – HMC sent us four students just this year! CSE-ers in the photo: (back row) Adrian Sampson, Dan Halperin, Stuart Pernsteiner, Eric… Continue reading HMC @ CSE

Finding the level of privacy we are okay with as a society is one of the blurriest lines I've found.  It seems clear that there is no single answer, but as technology shifts the balance we're certainly getting less comfortable with our ability to control our privacy. Being Social Is About Being Private Social networks and… Continue reading Finding the level of privacy we are okay with as a society is one of the blurriest lines I’ve fou…

A couple pictures from Google I/O today. This was posted on Google+…

beautiful day at whistler! This was posted on Google+…

This is a sweet inspirational mash-up of Neil deGrasse Tyson's plea to congress to keep funding NASA. Neil deGrasse Tyson – We Stopped Dreaming The intention of this project is to stress the importance of advancing the space frontier and is focused on igniting scientific curiosity in the general public. I give immense credit to… Continue reading This is a sweet inspirational mash-up of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s plea to congress to keep funding N…