Jack's Brain

**Get Git **is a Chrome extension that I hammered out today, inspired by these slides.

Some exciting work in the pipeline; working on a handy toolchain for 23andMe genetic data analysis and breakdown — conversion to VCF, SNP effects, annotated mutation and protein defect analysis, the whole shebang.

In code, simplicity is a minimalism borne of competency in tool use.

Just wanted to give some visibility to a utility I discovered and contributed some code to called 23andme2vcf.

New Chrome plugin!

I just received a spit kit from 23andMe, a biotech company that does genomic SNP analysis.

I’m proud to announce my first Chrome extension — Regex Replace.

I had a bit of a lazy morning in bed today, so in response to the surprisingly numerous emails I’ve gotten expressing thanks (or a desire for instructions of use) for the Twilio SMS and media deletion tool I wrote, I decided to tweak things a bit and make…

I’ve been alternately happy and very unhappy with my service from Twilio, a well known company that provides easy SMS and voice capability to applications via its API.

I’m trying to get more and more comfortable with node.js, and I’m finding it really handy to put together quick command line apps I might otherwise be putting way too much cruft into if I would have used PHP.

Just got my grades back – all my classes passed!

**TL;DR **twilio-sms-delete is a tool to iteratively delete all SMS and associated media from your Twilio account.

It’s still a closed alpha, but I took a couple hours’ break from studying tonight to hammer out a few new features, especially features that help take DB in the direction I originally intended it – cold analysis of the crimes and locations, and less of a…

Fun side note: I just was deemed unable to give blood for right now due to my clotting the needle twice.

My latest project:

So Taylor Otwell just merged my pull request.

node.js (sic) is a really cool runtime environment that allows for asynchronous, event driven coding.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH My first pull request to the Reddit codebase just got OK’d for merge by the admin.

I was hoping to contribute to some documentation for a project that’s especially near to my heart.

Wow.

I finally have a GitHub profile.

“Book ’em, Danno.”

Oh goodness – it’s the beginning of the end of this blog… I almost made a post solely to apologize for not posting more often – that’s like the death rattle of a blog.

I had an awesome weekend of kneeboarding and tubing at Lake Livingston in Texas, and somehow the magnet stayed in!

Today I was taken by surprise as I picked up my energized power brick and felt my magnet tingling!

My primary medical contact throughout all this, Linda, has confirmed my fears that the magnet seems to be extruding/rejecting.

Just a quick pic after a long 24 hours.

At work, we’ve been going hard on building some reports while working with a particularly difficult database that ignores more normal forms than it follows.

This next week marks the halfway point of my summer job as a developer.

Things keep looking better and better.

I’ve been playing with a magnetometer app on my iPhone 5S – it looks like, with my finger against the phone body, I can register ~4 mT (milliteslas), against ~45 µT of background flux.

It tickles!!

After a few misfires and incorrect orders (my website is not JacksBrian.com), my final dog tag came!

Seeing a bigger mound of scar tissue forming; definitely been more tender lately.

It continues to get less tender with pressure.

I just got to try an EPOC (made by Emotiv).

We all use headphones when we are coding to listen to music.

Holy cow this looks good.

Moisturizing made an incredible difference – just 12 hours later, some of the raw, healing skin is 100% closed!

Happy 4th!

Just a quick photo.

Healing continues.

Healing continues well.

A quick video of me messing around, with a bonus photo showing scar, placement, and a tiny shadow of the vascular arches in the pulp.

Last night I checked in with Linda, as I was in the neighborhood.

Well, I’m definitely getting sick… Dry and scratchy throat with wheezy chest congestion.

I seem to have developed a slight runny nose and cough, precipitated by incessant symptoms of dehydration (chapped lips, dry mouth, heavy thirst) despite increased water intake over the last three days.

I removed my stitches today.

Healing continues well.