Myths About Drinking Water LifeOmic - the company I work for - has a high focus on wellness and health science, with all of our apps having scientific backing. I brought up that hydration
webrtc WebRTC with async/await Basic WebRTC connection setup can be confusing to understand, and there really is a lot going on that is black magic. Even so, just getting a single page connection going
technology Hacking Alexa to send Arbitrary Texts I finally jumped on the Alexa bandwagon this week, and picked up an Amazon Dot. I got the Dot, because it's a lot cheaper than the Echo, and I already
webrtc WebRTC Phone User Experience Last year, &Yet wrote a great series of blog posts with AT&T about WebRTC UX. We love to see this kind of focus in the WebRTC community,
books The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Note: Due to translation differences and conventions, some names (including that of the author himself) may be spelled differently than in other sources. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a
software Simple Image Lazy Loading with Ghost I recently put up a post that happened to contain a bunch of images, and realized that the initial experience was kind of crappy, due to loading all of them
experiences A Year In Review 2015 2015 was a year of ups and downs, but I came out on top. I tried a lot of new things, and survived pretty happy and pretty healthy. Some notable
webrtc Surviving Mandatory HTTPS in Chrome Chrome 47 brought a new change, and one that's caused a lot of confusion and irritation for some WebRTC developers. Despite the warnings and PSAs from the WebRTC team at
software Choosing a mobile platform to target As a mobile developer, I often get questions like "Nice site! When's the mobile app coming?" or "we really need an app for this specific need, which platform should we use? or even "I want to make an app, but
javascript Using Webtask.io for Secure API Tokens Single Page Applications are awesome. One downside is that static SPAs often have to authenticate with some service or API in order to coordinate some communication, access some data, or
finances Stacked Snowball Debt Repayment Paying down debt is hard. I don't want to go into all the details about how and why to pay down debt because other people have already done that better
software Improved Chrome Extension UX, again A few months ago, Philipp Hancke from &yet posted Improved Screensharing UX on Talky which specifically addresses the UX for first-time users. The problem being addressed is threefold: In Chrome, desktop capture for screen sharing is enabled via the desktopCapture Chrome extension API,
software Passions and Tools I'm of the (unpopular) opinion that being excited about the framework or platform you're using as the focal point of the work you're doing, you're focused on the wrong thing. People are going nuts about Ember and React, .NET coming to Mac, Rails or
travel A Guide to New Orleans Coffee New Orleans is oft talked about as a party city - and indeed it is - but it is also much more. We went armed with recommendations from some friends
climbing Rocky Face Yesterday I had the opportunity to climb at Rocky Face Mountain Recreation Area. Rocky Face is a man-made crag. It's the remnants of an old quarry that has been cleaned
technology Tesla Still Can't Harvest Lightning Today, in a shocking moment at a Tesla press conference Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturer, admits "No, we don't know how to harvest lightning yet."
climbing Clarification on some climbing terms A few weeks ago, Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell completed a grueling 19 day free climb of the Dawn Wall, a face of Yosemite National Park's gargantuan mountain El Capitan.
technology How to Identify a Scam On Social Media Scams and Phishing are pretty common in email, and email providers like Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook are getting better and better at letting you know when an email might not be totally legitimate, or might put you at risk. They can do this because
charity Give I'm raising $4000 for the San Francisco HIV Foundation and cycling 545 miles to do it. Every year, thousands of cyclists raise money to fight HIV and ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles as a part of the AIDS/LifeCycle. Unfortunately every year,
climbing Off The Wall I (not so) recently self-diagnosed myself with an A2-Pulley injury. It's the most common injury for rock climbers, and most commonly occurs in rock climbers. An A2-Pulley is the fibrous soft tissue that wraps all the way around your finger, binding your tendon close
climbing A Day on the Mountain I woke up in the cool morning, my face open to the morning air, with the smell of pine and new spring growth on Pilot Mountain. The new growth covers
climbing Going Over the Edge This fall, I'll be taking a big rappel - 300+ feet from the top of the Wells Fargo building in downtown Raleigh. This is a fundraiser for the Special Olympics. I love rock climbing and rappelling, so this is an exciting chance to raise
software Markdown Preprocessor I recently added a feature to my application to serve arbitrary markdown documents from a directory. This is designed to allow authors to populate a folder full of help documents, and be able to view them without any code changes. However, because this is
climbing First Outdoor Lead Climb This past weekend I completed my first outdoor lead climb. I only got to lead once, because it started getting crowded, and we only had part of the day, but it was great. We went up to Pilot Mountain, which is about an hour
