Pete Keen

After writing last blog post I started to build out another app using Dokuen and the pain really got to me.

Dokuen (Japanese for "solo performance") is an amalgamation of open source components that I mashed together so I could run Heroku-style services on my shiny new Mac mini while retaining the paradigm of git push deployments and environment variables for c…

Note: you can find much more information about ledger on ledger-cli.org, including links to official documentation and other implementations For the last five years I've kept my personal finances in order using the ledger system, a sophisticated command l…

Note: you can find much more information about ledger on ledger-cli.org, including links to official documentation and other implementations I've been using Ledger for almost five years now to keep track of my personal finances.

The very first post on this blog was about how I wanted a completely static blog and how it'll be great and wonderful and boy howdy was it ever.

Literally ten minutes after hitting the publish button on my last post I took a little tumble and broke a rather important bone in my back, and now I'm on medical leave from work for awhile.

I started a small product a few weeks ago called FivePad, a simple easy way to organize your apartment search.

For over two years I've been ruminating on an idea for a webapp that would help people coordinate apartment searches amongst roommates.

I want to brainstorm everything that sucks about searching for an apartment.

Eight weeks ago I embarked, almost by accident, on one of the most interesting challenges that I've ever set up for myself.

I think everyone is due for an update on my remindlyo progress, but I don't really have an organized post.

Quick update on the quadrotor.

The new propellers came today.

After too many days of everything remindlyo I decided that today would be the day I finally got off my ass and finished putting together my quadrotor.

For the past few weeks I've been working on a little product that I'm calling remindlyo, which I'm hoping to turn into a secondary income stream.

Note: you can find much more information about ledger on ledger-cli.org, including links to official documentation and other implementations Recently my girlfriend and I visited the wonderful city of Vancouver, Canada.

Note: you can find much more information about ledger on ledger-cli.org, including links to official documentation and other implementations Another note: I've written a new version of this that is much more dynamic and flexible named Ledger Web.

I found some time today to work on my quadrotor project some more.

Just a few bug fixes this time: When you send proclaunch SIGHUP, it will send all of the profiles their respective stop signals and then wait for them to shut down.

ProcLaunch has learned a bunch of new things lately.

The Arduino is a cool little development board, actually a series of them, that make it a snap to get up and running with embedded development.

I kind of started ProcLaunch as a lark.

Browsing around on hacker news one day, I came across a link to a paper entitled "A micro-manual for Lisp - Not the whole truth" by John McCarthy, the self-styled discoverer of Lisp.

Edit 2010-08-08: ProcLaunch now has a CPAN-compatible install process.

I've made some small changes to the way bugsplat.info is generated.

Modern web applications are complicated beasts.

Note: this article uses the Twitter V1 API which has been shut down.

In my day job I use a mix of perl and C++, along with awk, sed, and various little languages.

Creating actionable information out of raw data is sometimes pretty simple, requiring only small changes.

Note: you can find much more information about ledger on ledger-cli.org, including links to official documentation and other implementations About three years ago I was in some serious financial straits.

Once in a while at Rentrak we have programming competitions, where anyone who wants to, including sysadmins and DBAs, can submit an entry for whatever the problem is.

Let's pretend, just for a second, that you want to make some money on the stock market.

After using Calorific for a month two things have become very clear.

I'm a nerd.

Someone at work today demanded that I add an RSS feed, so here you go: atom.

I'm a strict believer in learning by doing.