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Cli-Worm

Cli-Worm## Have you even been tabbing through Tmux panes and suddenly thought: I want to read Fire and Fury but how am I going to do that without taking my hand off the keyboard and touching a mouse like some kind of animal?! Of course you have and that's why

Defcon 26 -- A Software Engineer's Perspective

Defcon 26 -- A Software Engineer's Perspective

This year marks my fourth Defcon, and I thought it was time to reflect on what keeps me coming back year after year, and why I think more software developers, not just info-sec specialists, should brave the Vegas heat and check out this amazing conference! 1983: The View from Dystopia's

Jekyll+CSS Media+PhantomJS+Netlify == Resume w/ Build Process

As a developer I feel like it's important to have an online resume, but I also want to keep an up to date dead tree resume. Like all developers I loathe doing anything twice; so, I recently put together a build process for my resume, using a few brilliant off

The State of Offline In Web Applications (2017)

The State of Offline In Web Applications (2017)

Application Cache Yes, we all know it. AppCache is a douche bag! But sadly if you want your offline application to load under Safari, IE11, or Edge, it's your only option. If you check out Mozillas documentation on AppCache, you will find a big red disclaimer saying keep away! Using

Ubuntu Mate as a Platform for Interactive Art Exhibition

I have recently been playing artist with my developer skills and have been learning quite a bit in the process. One take away which I discussed in my previous post is that Ubuntu Mate is an amazing platform for displaying your work! When presenting a piece of digital artwork the

When a Developer Tries Art

When a Developer Tries Art

I have always been interested in the intersection of art and computer science. Over the last couple years I began taking this passion a step further presenting some of my work in gallery exhibitions. This has been a rewarding experience and I want to present a few takeaways I've learned

Mongo Gone Zalgo

Mongo Gone Zalgo

Abandon all Hope Ye Who Enter Here Do not extend JavaScript built in prototypes! I repeat do not extend JavaScript built in prototypes! Ok, wanted to get that out upfront, but for those with patience, stick around for a twisted tale. It all started a few years ago when a

Call And Response, Bringing Sound To Life

Call And Response, Bringing Sound To Life

Our First Exhibition Call and Response is an interactive art project created in collaboration by Ainsley Wagoner, Andrew Allred, and myself. We recently displayed version 1.0 of Call and Response in the Lexington Art League's Expanding Fields Exhibition. It was a blast to be part of this exhibition with

Convert PDF to Text With less (Linux Tips #1)

I recently discoverred a great trick that I thought was wroth sharing. If you've ever wanted to peak at a pdf file from the command line or convert a pdf to plain text it turns out you have the capability baked right into you're favorite bash prompt, no additional packages

Making The Fong Phone

The Fong Phone is a synthesizer app created by myself and Andrew Allred to produce drones and soundscapes for electronic noise music. It is my first real mobile app, now available for both Android and iOS The source is also available from github via the Open GPL V2 license. In

The Fong Phone -- Featured on the Chris Brake Show

National Day of Civic Hacking 2015

National Day of Civic Hacking 2015

June 6th was the third annual National Day of Civic Hacking, organized by Code for America. The awesome folks with Open Lexington and Make Time put together a great event in Lexington this year. I know many people think hacking means breaking into computers, but for us geeks it simply

Algorithmic Beauty

Just some images I wished to share. Mostly these are happy mistakes created while playing with various algorithms These were generated by diffusion limited aggregation implementations in JavaScript This one was produced by an implementation of the flame fractal algorithm I made in Java. Not sure that it was fully

Rules & Play Gallery Hop

Rules & Play Gallery Hop

The 2015 Gallery Hop took place on January 16th. I participated in the Rules & Play exhibition which was presented by RunJumpDev at the Livery. The idea behind the exhibition was to present interactive art that elicits a sense of play through simple rules. This took many forms as each artists

Basic Mandelbrot

Below I have implemented a very basic version of the Mandelbrot set using the new features offered by HTML5. The mandelbrot set was first studied visually in 1978 by Robert W. Brooks and Peter Matelski, but the equation at its hear goes back much further and is rooted in the

Mandelbrot Explorer

I wrote the Mandelbrot Explorer to explore new features of HTML5. It makes use of both the canvas element and web workers. You can click and drag to select portions of the mandelbrot set to view in greater detail. You can also also choose alternate gradient maps. The gradient maps

Sound Board (Web Audio API Demo)

This is a demonstration I put together for the local JavaScript user group to show off the features of the Web Audio API. As of the time of this writing Fire Fox and IE do not support the Web Audio API; however, Chrome does, though the webkit prefix is still

Turtle Interpretation

I've began playing with turtle interpretation which a process for generating fractals using string replacement. I hope to have more on this soon, but for now the below is a simple example being rendered to the canvas with JS. The code is available on my github at jsFractals project