SSIR: Open Source Software Is Philanthropy When properly supported, open source software can spark innovation, accelerate social good, and ultimately help change the world. Oct 30, 2017
Case Foundation Blog: The Technology Powering the Impact Investing Network Map How data visualization drove the Case Foundation's build of the Impact Investing Network Map. Aug 8, 2017
Doomsday Machine Followup: Docker Project Doomsday Machine is a tool for backing up cloud services to a local machine. This project is a followup to a Node.js project I started in April. While that project worked well, I wasn't happy with the code's performance and lack of support, being that the project was just my code. Instead, I've constructed this project which is really just an amalgamation of others' great projects. Jul 17, 2017
Why AR Will Supersede VR Apple’s unveiling of their augmented reality development tool, AR Kit, at the World Wide Developer Conference is an indicator that they see the future of augmented reality being much stronger than the future of virtual reality. Jun 22, 2017
Backing Up Cloud Services With Doomsday Machine With a rising threat of ransomware and other data-crippling threats, backups are indispensable. While cloud services, by their nature, are extremely stable and backed-up often, there is still the threat that a malicious entity could compromise or corrupt those services. May 14, 2017
An Opportunity For Responsible Innovation With Amazon’s Alexa There has been a need in the ever-expanding universe of Internet of Things (IoT) devices for some unifying factor. I’ve written about this before, calling for an open standard to make IoT devices interoperable. Mar 30, 2017
Featured On IOT Weekly My recent article on the need to create an open standard for IOT devices, Where The Internet of Things Runs Aground, was in issue 96 of IOT Weekly. Feb 8, 2017
BASIC Inspired A Generation Of Technologists. What Will Inspire The Next? I received a Christmas gift in fourth grade that profoundly impacted my career path and thus the rest of my life. Feb 7, 2017
New Project: GrammarLint This is a Node.JS implementation of the grammar verification Bash scripts by Matt Might. Taking his work a bit further, this implementation installs as a global binary, allows for future expansion of modules, and outputs the found errors in various ways that best suit the user. Jan 2, 2017
Where The Internet of Things Runs Aground The big holiday gift of the season seems to have been the Amazon Echo Dot. The small voice-controlled gadget was the perfect combination of low-cost and high-tech for gadget lovers and techies everywhere. Dec 31, 2016