Scott said he’s setting aside his innate skepticism about working with police. “If we want them to work for us, how can they do that if we don’t tell them what we want?” he said. -Seattle Times
Tag: tech
Code for Seattle 2015
An exercise I’m in the process of completing is thinking about how we’d like to see the code for seattle organization grow and evolve in 2015. For reference, the document is beginning to taking shape and will live for posterity on the organization website. I’m really excited about the trajectory that the code for america… Continue reading Code for Seattle 2015
I started ip2country over the last few days, as a self contained npm module for determining the country of an IP address.
Webrtc-Adapter
WebRTC continues to develop towards an evolving standard, requiring some additional leg work to use it in projects. In yet another attempt at bridging that gap, I’ve been working on maintaining an adapter lessening some of the deviation from standard in current browsers.
https://www.npmjs.org/package/webrtc-adapter
It currently fixes
- Response of format of getStats in Chrome
- Translation to ‘url’ from the standard ‘urls’ when configuration is passed to Firefox
- Emission of the ‘negotiationneeded’ event when a data channel is created in Firefox
The main hope is that this will be easier to include in projects than previous attempts.
kindle
Now that I have a non-biking commute I’m excited to start reading more. I’m not sure I buy into the whole good-reads thing that Amazon is pushing on me, but the kindle form factor is nice in that it’s small enough to fit in my back pocket and pull out on the subway. Also interesting,… Continue reading kindle
BladeDroid
Happy to see BladeDroid appear at APSys next month. BladeDroid is Ravi’s project to figure out how to translate user scripts (browser extensions) into Android and get users back in control of their Apps.
Open Proxies
I spent a bit of time last month looking at Open Proxies. They’re are one of the dark corners of the internet that have been around forever but which we still don’t really understand. It was really cool to get a view into the largely international nature of the servers, get a sense of where… Continue reading Open Proxies
freedom.js
Work over the last month has largely focused on using freedom.js as a platform for server security. I’m very happy with the submission we made to OSDI yesterday describing that work.
Public & Private
I have ended up spending more time than I was expecting over that last few months struggling to figure out where I stand on how much of ones life should be public versus private. I’ve found myself being more private over the last year, somewhat to my dismay, and yet have felt increasingly uncomfortable being… Continue reading Public & Private