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Story of a Betting Bot
This article recounts the story of how I became one of the wealthiest 100 players on a virtual betting site with over 10,000 active users. I was looking to sharpen up my JavaScript skills when I came...
View ArticleErgonomic Alternatives Review 2014
In 2013, my carpal tunnel was beginning to become unbearable. Every day, I would come home with wrists burning and fingertips tingling. In an effort to alleviate my symptoms, I started to try alternate...
View ArticleIntroduction to Voice Programming, Part One: DNS + Natlink
Between 2008 and 2013, I began to suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. During that same time, I realized how much I love programming. When I saw Tavis Rudd’s Pycon talk, I thought to myself, “That’s...
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Introduction to Voice Programming, Part Two: Open Source Speech Tools
Last time, I talked about why Dragon NaturallySpeaking (version 12.5) is currently the best choice of speech engine for voice programming, and how Natlink ties Dragon to Python. Natlink is a great tool...
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So You Want to Use Saltbot
UPDATE 5/16/2015: Chrome updated their App policy, so if you want to install Saltbot, you have to do so from the App Store. Due to a recent surge of interest in Saltbot, the betting bot I created for...
View ArticleIntroduction to Voice Programming, Part Three: Best Practices
In the prior two articles in this series, I went over the basics of getting started with voice programming, and talked a little bit about the history and community of it. In this article, I’m going to...
View ArticleIntroduction to Voice Programming, Part Four: Grammar Complexity
In the previous articles in this series, I covered the essentials of getting started and getting involved with voice programming, and some best practices. This time, I’m going to talk about an issue...
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Using Live Reload with Spring Boot
At AngularJS workshops and in React internet articles, I’ve often seen instruction on using a live-reload Node.js server. A live-reload server is one that scans the project path for changes to files,...
View ArticleExplain Like I’m Five: Concurrency
It’s easy to think about code execution on a single timeline. Code executes in the order it appears in the source. It’s harder to think about code which executes concurrently. What are the benefits?...
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Information Security Best Practices
Information security is important. Yet lots of folks do things that diminish or even eliminate their personal or professional information security. In this article, I detail numerous information...
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