This week, Congress voted to repeal internet privacy regulations established by the Obama administration. The outrage was swift and severe. And rightfully so; it's difficult to see how this benefits the average citizen at all. It also seems pretty clear that the ISPs were lining the campaign chests of Republican representatives to make it happen. What they've done is make it … [Read more...]
Algolia is Back
A while back, I wrote about a super-powered cloud-based search, Algolia. I loved it while I was able to use it, but my trial expired and the price tag was abit steep for a personal blog. I reverted to Dave's Wordpress Live Search, which did a great job, but didn't have all the bells and whistles of Algolia. Today, I received an email from the Algolia team announcing Algolia … [Read more...]
Update: MagiQuest Wand Code
Apologies for the delay. I've been meaning to update the original post talking about Magiquest wands and home makerness, but haven't had time until now. I did manage to find an improved tactic to the statistical confidence path I went down using only a Raspberry Pi and LIRC to decode. The hero of this story is really Michael Flaga, who extended Arduino-IRRemote to include … [Read more...]
Control OWI Robotic Arm From Scratch
I was looking for a good project for my kids to play with robotics where they could use their preferred way of coding, Scratch. If you're not familiar with Scratch, it's a visual coding environment designed for kids. For instance, will turn the sprite toward the top of the screen and move it 10 steps. You can actually create pretty sophisticated software using these … [Read more...]
Wearality: High Quality VR In Your Pocket
Back before I started at Megacorp What Counts Things, I worked for a smaller consulting firm. Back at that firm, we had a fellowship program. What that means is that there was a group of really freaking smart people we paid to say they were our friends. One of those really freaking smart guys was Alan Kay. If you're not familiar with him, he's the guy who invented the laptop … [Read more...]
Creepy, Facebook… Creepy.
I was recently brought into a client engagement where EpiServer was brought into scope because the client had a license to it and they were looking to add CMS capabilities to the work we were doing. I didn't know a whole lot about the product, so I hit the website to do some research. I also tried, unsuccessfully, to locate anyone with EpiServer expertise in our company. Then, … [Read more...]
Putting The “Person” Back In Personalization
I spent this past week in Las Vegas at the Adobe Summit. I would summarize it like this: "mobile, mobile, mobile, stories, mobile, then that guy who was the handyman on Facts of Life spoke." I kid. It was actually a great event. My company had a booth on the floor of the Community Pavillion and people would stop by to discuss their concerns or just see why a company like … [Read more...]
I Am The Best Girl Scout In The World
My wife sent me a text: "The cookie orders are due tomorrow and we haven't sold any!" Normally, I take the order form to the office and drum up some sales there, but this year I had been traveling quite a bit. So, in a hail mary move, I sent an email to the office distribution list and hit up Facebook for orders. We ended up selling the most in the troop. As a result, I had to … [Read more...]
Driving Relevance: A 3-pronged Approach
I've been involved with an initiative to transform search and information discovery at a company for a while now. We're trying some really groundbreaking things, but it ultimately comes down to getting the right information to the user when the ask for it, and we tend to call this relevance. Relevance is a tricky thing because, to a large degree, it is contextual. There are … [Read more...]
We Wish You A VR-y Christmas
So, the gift that keeps on giving at my house this holiday season is the Viewmaster Virtual Reality Starter Pack. It's basically Google Cardboard for kids. It works with any Cardboard-compatible smartphone and was easy to get up and running, then the payoffs just kept coming. I've been involved with VR since the mid 90's when I was coding "4D poems" in VRML. It seemed like … [Read more...]
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