Matt Steele

Recently I hooked up a Raspberry Pi to my bike and made an LED light strip synchronize with my heart rate and pedal speed.

I recently partook in Bike De'Lights, Omaha's two-wheeled tour of the Christmas lights on display in Midtown.

At NebraskaJS I introduced my dumbest project yet: a compiler which converts ArnoldC programs into JavaScript, with full support for Source Maps.

I gave a talk at NebraskaJS about my journey with source maps: Video Demos Sass, Concatenation, Minification CoffeeScript, TypeScript, ECMAScript 6 ArnoldC The source is available on GitHub.

On August 7, we'll be throwing the first JavaScript conference ever held in Nebraska.

I recently participated in the Bike De'Lites, a casual bike tour around Omaha's Christmas-decorated neighborhoods.

I spoke at Omaha Coffee & Code about the work the Responsive Images Community Group has been up to lately: Big heavy images are responsible for most of the bloat on a responsive website, but it doesn't have to be that way.

It's been nearly four years since Ethan Marcotte published a little piece A List Apart on Responsive Web Design.

I gave a talk at NebraskaJS on hardware hacking, Johnny-Five, and the importance of amateur goofery.

A few weeks ago I took part in the third Hack Omaha, a civic hackathon put on by Matt Wynn, Open Nebraska, and others.

502 Unbelievable Bad Gateways (with photos) — Brian Essbe (@SortaBad) November 19, 2013 Nice.

After years of using my website as a glorified landing page to other content, I've taken the time to build something proper.

I gave a lightning talk at NebraskaJS on some of the new features available through the Device API.

I recently read Tim Wright's article on A List Apart detailing the Device API; a collection of W3C standards that let you obtain access to a number of hardware sensors.

I spoke at Nebraska Code Camp on how to unit test JavaScript when you're deathly afraid of the language.

I spoke at the HaymarketDev meetup in Lincoln on treating JavaScript like a real language.

I spoke at the Omaha Java User Group this month about what testing JavaScript is like for a JS neophyte:

In my talk Zen and the Art of TDD, I included a slide that showed only 43% of all Github repositories from Omaha developers included unit tests: Today I'm releasing the code I used to obtain this data: a script called Town Tester.

Over the weekend at Barcamp Omaha I gave a talk on why I practice test driven development.

This weekend I took part in Hack Omaha - the city's first hackathon with a focus on making apps from public data.

On my way back from India, I finally had a chance to read The Clean Coder, Uncle Bob's latest book.

This morning, I had to fight a production error in an application I support.

My folks got a golf tile puzzle game called "Scramble Squares".

In case you're like me, use Cardstar, and want to put your Omaha Public Library card on your phone, here's the custom barcode you should setup: Symbology: Codabar Start code: A Stop code: C Inverted: no Hope Google's indexing this.

As previously noted, my bike was stolen a couple weeks ago.

One of the more interesting films I watched last year was the King of Kong, a documentary about the quest to break (or retain) the Donkey Kong high score world record.

You've probably heard about (or signed up with) Mint, the startup which promises to liberate us all from the Quickens of the world and revolutionize personal finance.

So Scott Adams has decided to cut down on his blogging, because he doesn't like losing money being misunderstood: Every blog post reduced my income, even if 90% of the readers loved it.

Let's say you had a wealth of information in a Google spreadsheet that you wanted to access using Javascript.

The Menu bar: Transparently awful Whoever gave the go-ahead on adding transparencies to everything menu-related needs to get run over by a train.

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