Tag Archives: Geek

Steampunk Homebrewery

Thanks to a DIY home-brewing engineer known as Sizz building a pretty cool electric all-grain brewing system and then deciding he wanted to play golf instead, our garage is now stuffed with a recirculating infusion mash system (RIMS)-based all-grain brew … Continue reading

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Skype, Cause, Effect, and Overkill

My loathing of Skype’s new UI and horrible group conferencing performance at work has led me to implement a PBX at home. When I stop to think about it, it must be overkill, but once I got started, it was … Continue reading

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Whose data is it, anyway?

I’ve been using a Garmin Edge 305 as my main bicycle computer for a few years now. I love maps and data, so the ability to look at where I’ve been and where I’m headed is alluring. I decided to … Continue reading

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WordPress for iPad

tl;dr be careful if you use it. As of version 2.4, it doesn’t save the contents of the active editing view when the app is closed; I lost 15 minutes of typing this morning to this misfeature. Even the Web … Continue reading

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Ubiquitous robotics on the verge?

The Economist’s Babbage writes about robotics today. He mentions several software development kits (SDK), and highlights one from Stanford, Willow Garage, that is very promising. He then says, “But the killer applications for personal robots remain as illusive [sic] as … Continue reading

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