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21 hours ago

Is open access worth pursuing?

It’s amazing how much of education has remained the same since the birth of schools. Students sit in rows for lectures, take regular quizzes and exams, read texts, and do homework. You would think that the Internet would result in an explosion of new ways to learn and we would…

Education

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Is open access worth pursuing?
Is open access worth pursuing?
Education

8 min read


Nov 14

Using Retrieval Augmented Generation to create a Professor Oak chatbot

A few weeks ago I talked about a Pokémon game that runs on the web as a progressive web app. It’s evolved over the past five years with all kinds of features. And now that I support over a thousand distinct Pokémon species, I do worry it’s become difficult for…

Retrieval Augmented

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Using Retrieval Augmented Generation to create a Professor Oak chatbot
Using Retrieval Augmented Generation to create a Professor Oak chatbot
Retrieval Augmented

10 min read


Oct 26

Building a Pokémon fangame PWA: What I’ve learned and how you can play it

Today I’m at connect.tech in Atlanta, Georgia to talk about a Pokémon fangame I’ve been slowly building over the last five years. It’s a game that’s constantly evolving and I’ve learned a lot from it. Playing Pokémon In this game, much like the main series, there a bunch of gameplay mechanics that…

Pokemon

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Building a Pokémon fangame PWA: What I’ve learned and how you can play it
Building a Pokémon fangame PWA: What I’ve learned and how you can play it
Pokemon

17 min read


Oct 13

At $2.90, the NYC Subway is too cheap

Back in August, the MTA could no longer hold back the resistance to raise the price of the fare to $2.90. This resulted in a lot of grumpy people online who complained as they always do. But as I heard their cries, I began to wonder. What if the subway…

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At $2.90, the NYC Subway is too cheap
At $2.90, the NYC Subway is too cheap

11 min read


Sep 12

Building a constellation effect for the web with HTML Canvas

I’ve got a web-based game which I’ll be introducing in more detail in Connect.tech next month. When you open the game in your browser, there’s a splashscreen which appears. There’s a bit of stuff that needs to load in the background, as well as authorizing the current user and pulling…

6 min read

Building a constellation effect for the web with HTML Canvas
Building a constellation effect for the web with HTML Canvas

6 min read


Sep 7

TypeScript, Turbo, and Digital Anarchism

I want to provide some longer thoughts on the hasty decision by DHH to replace their TypeScript library Turbo with JavaScript. I think it’s a bad decision. But why is it a bad decision? Have I just become a crank who is settled in his own ways? …

Open Source

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TypeScript, Turbo, and Digital Anarchism
TypeScript, Turbo, and Digital Anarchism
Open Source

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Sep 5

Evening Discourse: Turning your Read Later list into a Listen Later

When I have some free time on the weekends, I’ll try to pull an article I’ve saved in Instapaper and read it. While Feedly is great for publications I read regularly, I do want to read a lot of articles that shared on social media. But when do I have…

Instapaper

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Evening Discourse: Turning your Read Later list into a Listen Later
Evening Discourse: Turning your Read Later list into a Listen Later
Instapaper

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Aug 29

Automatically Building I2C Drivers for the Zephyr RTOS

When you are going to build an IoT project, you have a lot of platforms you can choose from: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Particle, and new platforms like Zephyr are popping up all the time. I think Zephyr is interesting because of its wide board support and its backing by the…

IoT

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Automatically Building I2C Drivers for the Zephyr RTOS
Automatically Building I2C Drivers for the Zephyr RTOS
IoT

10 min read


Aug 17

How the Microwave Economy saved my life, and yours

After reading an essay entitled The Microwave Economy by David Perell, I thought about leaving a comment expressing my opinion. But then the comment was going to get too long and I decided to write a more formal rebuttal of the author’s points. In this essay, the author bemoan’s the…

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How the Microwave Economy saved my life, and yours
How the Microwave Economy saved my life, and yours

7 min read


Aug 11

Why Density Matters

A couple months ago, a new website launched that I found quite interesting. I finally found a bit of time to go through it. The site, now called UrbanStats, provides a variety of density-related data and more including education, income, election-related data, and more. I thought it’d be fun…

Urbanism

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Why Density Matters
Why Density Matters
Urbanism

5 min read

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Nick Felker

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Social Media Expert -- Rowan University 2017 -- IoT & Assistant @ Google

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