iPad Stylus Review
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Here's a quick review of the Wacom Bamboo Solo and Pogo Connect for iPad. I mainly wanted to try to shoot something with my RX1.
New Blog
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I redo my blog a lot. This time around, it's very different than past iterations. Everything is stored in git and cached in Redis.
After being inspired by Waza this year, I decided to have a more durable way to store my posts. Instead of storing years of work in Postgres, I decided to store them on GitHub. I even took the time to go through Archive.org and try to find as my old posts as I could find.
I'm not worried about Postgres durability. I'm more worried about accidently deleting my database or my dev database getting corrupted. Anyway, having them on my computer, external backups, and on GitHub is a good feeling. Granted I could have done that with Postgres, but managing markdown files on my computer is fun and easy.
Hello World
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There is a world out there. It's pretty awesome. Today, I stumbled across this picture:
This makes me incredibly sad.
Introducing Quesadilla
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I've been thinking about making this Ruby gem for awhile. It was originally called "cheddar-text", but I decided something that sounded more fun would be better. Awhile back, I was trying to rewrite this library in C and named the repo Quesadilla. It turns out, writing a C extensions that manipulates strings is really hard, so now the Ruby version is named Quesadilla.
Quesadilla is an entity-style text parser. Quesadilla was extracted from Cheddar. It's what powers all of Cheddar's text parsing. It was inspired a bit by Twitter's tweet entity.
Since Cheddar works on iOS and Mac (as well as the web), I needed something that could give me ranges for special things in the text. iOS and Mac convert this to an NSAttributedString using the indices included in each entity. Here's the source for how Cheddar for iOS does it in Objective-C.
SuperConf 2013
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The wonder folks at SuperConf asked me to come to warm Miami and give a talk. I decided to talk about Building Realtime Applications.
Here are the links for everything I talked about: