X-No-Wiretap
Recently, the American public has been forcefully made aware of the existence of various programs by the NSA- including massive infrastructure for intercepting all domestically routed communications to...
View ArticleMuting a Casio W-201 Watch
For the past four years, I’ve been using a Casio W-201 watch. It’s plastic and cheap and light, and there isn’t really much more I would ask for. I presume Douglas Adams would be rather disappointed...
View ArticleOctober Progress Update
It’s Halloween, and I still haven’t posted a monthly blog post and I don’t quite feel like retroactively posting something next month. I’m understandably quite starved for free time with my attempts to...
View ArticleNovember Progress Report
If the frequency of these progress reports is to say anything, it’s that I’m terrible at sticking to a schedule and even worse at estimating progress. I was hoping that I’d be able to use the...
View ArticleOCRAD.js: Pure Javascript OCR via Emscripten
As with any minor stepping stone on the road to hell relentless trajectory of Atwood’s Law, I probably don’t need to justify the existence of yet another “x, but now in Javascript!”, but I might as...
View ArticleHeapQueue.JS
I have a habit of writing blog posts in Sublime Text in lieu of legitimate READMEs. This project was simple and short enough that I think I did manage to write something with a passable semblance to a...
View ArticleFebruary Progress Report
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — Parkinson’s Law For the past four or so months, I’ve been working on just one major project. It’s rather depressing to think that I...
View ArticleUnwarranted Speculation On Oculus VR
I’m almost certainly an outsider, so I can’t speak for the gaming or VR communities, but to me the Facebook acquisition (and the Abrash onboarding announcement) signals that the new Oculus is more...
View ArticlePerceptual color distance and RGB and L*a*b
I was doing some experiments with clustering colors, and it turns out that RGB euclidean distance is woefully inadequate, so here’s a neat little visualization of the colors in an certain image (an...
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