Have you opened a book lately?

Have you opened a book lately?

The guidebook for “Have you opened a book lately?”, a presentation I delivered at the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference, has been published here. The guidebook supported the presentation, which explored the motivations and means for authoring...
A Gentle Introduction to Python

A Gentle Introduction to Python

Found below is content for a workshop entitled A Gentle Introduction to Python, prepared for attendees of Penn State University’s Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit (LASTS). Workshop description: Stop fighting the computer and instead make it do your...
The Season for Growing Trees

The Season for Growing Trees

This is the transcript of my speech given upon receipt of the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for our team’s work with Dimples, PopArchitexture, and other ventures. The speech was delivered to an audience of small business owners for “Jonathan Miller...
A different way to share private info on Facebook

A different way to share private info on Facebook

Or, how to reveal a private note but only to friends who consider themselves close. tl;dr: To share mostly private info on Facebook with Friends how have opted-in to caring about you, post the private info to your Timeline with the Friends share setting, then promptly...

Star Wars trace route video

Here is a screencast I produced to demonstrate the Star Wars route received when running [bash gutter=”false”] $ traceroute 216.81.59.173 [/bash] Update 2013-02-14: 7,000 views. Not sure why this is so popular. Update 2013-02-12: Over 6,000+ views! Wow....