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My BronyCon 2013 Writeup 21 Aug 2013 | 05:12 am
Earlier this month I attended BronyCon, a convention for "bronies", or people who are fans of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". With over 8,000 attendees, it is the biggest convention of its kind...
My Anthrocon 2013 Report 21 Jul 2013 | 02:48 am
We had another amazing year at Anthrocon 2013 in Pittsburgh! Statistics Let's start with some statistics: Total number of attendees at Anthrocon 2013: 5,577 Total number of fursuits in the Fursuit...
Introducing Multiping: An Easy Way to Ping Multiple Hosts 21 Jun 2013 | 07:16 am
Yet another day with 8% packet loss from Comcast, it seems. In a fit of frustration, I spent half an hour and wrote a tool that can be used to ping multiple hosts at the same time, for the purpose of ...
I hate pennies. I *really* hate pennies. What to do with them all? 4 Jun 2013 | 07:20 am
I really hate pennies. Let me count the reasons: They cost more to make than they are worth I get them with nearly every purchase I make, causing my pocket to jingle more than it should. They doubl...
Log4Go Updates: colored text, Printf(), and SetLevelString() 30 May 2013 | 04:40 am
I recently rolled out some updates for my Log4Go package which I'd like to talk about here. My first update is the most technically appealing one: Printf()-style functionality. Instead of having to ...
Introducing Log4Go: Logging for Google Go 16 May 2013 | 08:39 am
When working on my last project, I wanted an easy way to perform logging. I had difficulty finding a logging framework that worked for me, and I figured it would be another good small project if I wer...
Multi Core CPU Performance in Google Go 13 May 2013 | 04:52 am
I've been playing around with Google's programming language known simply as Go lately, and have learned quite a bit about concurrency, parallelism, and writing code to effectively use multiple CPU cor...
Furry Connection North 2013 Report 3 May 2013 | 04:43 am
First, the stats. There were 1,259 total attendees at this year's Furry Connection North. We raised $21,299.67 for our charity, Country Cat & City Kitty Cat/Kitten Rescue. As usual, I got to see a ...
Notes from "Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million Users" 23 Apr 2013 | 07:23 am
Earlier tonight, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation from Chris Munns of Amazon at the offices of First Round Capital about scaling your software on AWS past the first 10 million users. I a...
An American's Visit to Sweden and Denmark 21 Apr 2013 | 05:47 am
I found myself between jobs a short awhile ago, and suddenly had a few weeks of downtime. Since I had an open invitation to visit Sweden and Denmark from friends living there, I figured I would take t...
