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I recently put together a Raspberry Pi cluster to try out some toy distributed systems projects, and I wanted to start with a basic monitoring program to get my feet wet and work out the following: Getting each node running and set up with software Running

I’ve recently been getting more interested in distributed systems, and I wanted to get experience building some of the concepts I’ve read about.

It was around 4PM a few Fridays ago when I heard that something had gone wrong, and I volunteered (was volunteered?)

I’ve been working in software for a few years, and I’ve come to take it for granted that I am not my work.

Looking for an em dash I was recently trying to find an em dash character to use in a piece of writing.

One of the best ways to learn and come up with new ideas is to focus intensely on a problem, then let your mind wander.

I recently saw a common clickjacking dark pattern when trying to pause a video the other day.

Junk mail is so interesting at its odd intersection between design, advertising, and psychology.

MapReduce Explained Using the Ten Hundred Words People Use Most Often MapReduce is a good way to take a big job that would take a long time on one computer and break it up into smaller jobs that can be done by simple computers.

I often walk my dog around a small reservoir near my apartment.

Exploring a simple machine I took apart a simple spray bottle to see how it kept fluid flowing only in one direction from the reservoir to the nozzle.

I enjoy looking at design in everyday life and the balance between how things are designed and how people try to use them.

I’m a fan of small toy projects that have the sole purpose of demonstrating a concept.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.”

I’ve found that one of the best ways for me to really understand anything is to implement it myself.

In my last post, I looked into some JavaScript casting and explored why 0 <= null evaluates as true.

The disconnect between “what seems like it should happen” and “what happens” causes you to push doors that are to be pulled, tap ads that load in the place of content, and cast null into 0 by accident in JavaScript.

Investigating a bug in Moment.js In this post, I walk through the steps I took while investigating a bug in Moment.js, an open source JavaScript library for dealing with dates and times.

Arduinode I’ve been working through the Arduino Starter Kit projects recently, and I wanted to try a new project that was outside of the pre-made booklet.

I take the MBTA 86 bus as part of my commute in the morning.

I worked through the third basic project in the Arduino Starter Kit Projects Book.

Shazam’s loading screen I was pleasantly surprised by Shazam’s iPhone app loading screen, and I took a look into what makes it stand out.