This is the script for a talk I gave at Google Dev Fest MN in 2015. It was meant to be a lighthearted history of web development and a commentary on its future.
Featured: interpolation, t-SNE projection (with gifs & examples!)
#1 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Over the past week, I have been refactoring our networking layer here at WeVat. The unit test coverage for the error scenarios that may arise from the network was pretty low, so I thought that it was a good opportunity to cast a bigger…
I love cars and I work in tech, which is kind of unfortunate because Silicon Valley is where…
Finance, at its best, is a form of technology that enables entrepreneurs and businesses to create new value for consumers.
Debt is one kind of financial technology, with Nike as a prominent example of its useful application. For years…
We have a rather interesting data leak story to share. The company having the vulnerability has more than 5 million users. One of the API endpoints could be used to iterate over all users data including name, phone umbers, email…
This was published Monday, August 8th, 2011 when Bitcoin was around $11. It was written during the “MTGOX”…
Stories are starting to roll in about problems that can be caused in existing systems by the “Shattered” PDFs — failed svn commits, and concerns about faking git commits. Here’s an off-the-cuff solution for software implementors who are concerned about the conflict…