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Adaptive Passphrase Length 1 Aug 2013 | 08:57 am
Longer passwords are more secure. But if you’ve ever been on a website or computer network which mandated that you change your password every 30 days to a string which you haven’t used in the past 180...
Array Addition and Other Fun Javascript Hacks 1 Jul 2013 | 08:56 am
It’s times like these that I’m reminded of my favorite childhood TV show (actually it’s kind of a close contest between this and Spongebob), Mythbusters, and that perennial warning: “don’t try this at...
Automatically Scanning on Lid Close with Arduino 31 May 2013 | 05:27 am
Before the 29th of January, I had a rather irritatingly Rube Goldberigan scheme for using my CanoScan LiDE 80. It didn’t have native Linux support, so the only way I could scan documents was through a...
Recoloring Planck Data 30 Apr 2013 | 06:21 pm
The rationale behind this is actually pretty contrived, but one of my friends had an imminent birthday, and I had no idea what kind of present to get her. Incidentally she sent had been working on som...
hqx.js – pixel art scaling in the browser 1 Apr 2013 | 03:30 am
Every once in a while some gadget has the misfortune of epitomizing the next first world problem. I guess right now, this is owning a Retina (or equivalent) laptop, tablet (arguably phone, but most we...
Swipe Gesture 2 8 Feb 2013 | 08:20 pm
I’ve actually had this post fermenting in my blog’s draft folder since at least September, but I never actually got around to finishing the post. And now that Google’s enabling the new swipe-to-go-bac...
MIT 16 Jan 2013 | 04:59 am
On December 15th, 2012 12:15pm, I was accepted Early Action to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, so I’ll be there starting this fall This blog isn’t principally here to boost my ego, so I’ll...
Facebook Chat Bot, Turing Completeness 31 Dec 2012 | 12:12 pm
Okay, so I really want to maintain at least one blog post per month, and here I am, right before New Year’s with no apocalypse in sight to rapture me away from having to write a blog post. I don’t hav...
A New Approach to Video Lectures 21 Nov 2012 | 02:01 pm
At time of writing, a video is being processed by my `v2.py` script, it’s only eight lines of code thanks to the beautifully terse nature of python and SimpleCV. And since it’s clearly not operating a...
Introduction to the Pedant 7 Oct 2012 | 05:08 pm
Recently, I’ve been racking up on hobbyist electronics components from Sparkfun. Actually, this has been going on for quite a while, and most of that spending was justified by this project, which curr...
