Bitcoin Bitcoin Satellite Node Using Iridium RockBLOCK Mk2 If cellular, WiFi, and the entire power grid go down, I can still send Bitcoin using the Iridium Satellite Network. Totally portable and no dish necessary. 🛰 🛰 🛰
General Design Satellites and Sovereignty Since founding Casa, we’ve been on a mission to protect personal sovereignty. We try to think through all potential threat vectors to design systems that are as resilient
Startup Life Startup: End of Year 2 Here’s my long-overdue quarterly update to close out our second year building Wavve. December 16′ Continued fruitlessly to find product-market fit for the mobile app. Reached the
Learning Startup: Months 15-19 July, August, and September We built an entirely new audio sharing experience for radio shows. As we shifted away from podcasting and towards terrestrial radio, we realized the need for
Raspberry Pi Powercheck Bot A patrol car drove by my house with a megaphone blaring. It was my last warning. Evacuation of #Charleston in full effect. @MountPleasantPD squad cars driving by homes urging people
Bitcoin Breaking Pokemon Go with a Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Cryptocurrency Node A few weeks ago I bought a Raspberry Pi starter kit on Amazon. I wanted one for a few months and finally found the perfect use
Startup Life Startup: Months 11-14 March Introducing Wavve, Inc. We changed our name to Wavve and re-incorporated in Delaware. April Pitch Event. Dig South. We also introduced Wavve to a few thousand during Tech Night
Learning Startup: Months 5-10 Here’s the short version: September Building. October Iterating. November Re-Building. December Building. A quick trip to Canada for the day job. Trademark woes and an ill-fated temporary name
Learning Startup: Months 3-4 July Between juggling trips to Canada for my day job, I somehow managed to finish the mobile app for iOS and Android. August Completed MVP. Released to group of test
Startup Life Building Wavve *** As of March 10, 2016, we’ve renamed our startup Wavve Did you know there are 86,400 seconds in a day? The last 90 days have forced me
Learning Startup: Month Two June Thinking. Building. Add coffee. APIs. Audio compression. Transcoding. More thinking.
Startup Life Startup: Month One May Incorporating uTalk Sports as a South Carolina LLC. Finally, a chance to use that law degree. Lots of white boarding too…
Information Design Review: The Best Interface is No Interface Several years ago, I read this post and was inspired to write a post of my own, excited about the potential of an interfaceless world. I was recently privileged enough
Learning When ISIS Hacks your Website The voice on the other end of the line was panicked. He didn’t know how it happened… only that his organization’s website had been hacked
Bitcoin Trading View: An Impressive Platform for Technical Analysis Trading View Free Edition Trading is expensive. There are broker commissions, hidden account fees, and don’t forget about subscription costs for financial newsletters and charting software. I’
Learning 100 Days of Github: Don't Break the Chain A while back I stumbled across John Resig’s blog post about writing code everyday. He made several points that resonated with me. I thought I would follow John&
Law 4th Amendment Rights in Routine Traffic Stops This is my answer to the following question on Quora: What would happen if a driver was pulled over in a routine traffic stop, and police officers found a “
Investing 3 Weeks with Robinhood App Beta It was 1998, I had $500, and I was obsessed with the stock market. Each day I’d rush home to sit in front of the computer and watch
Programming Yosemite Beta - First Impressions In 2000, Apple opened a public beta for OS X 10.0 Kodiak. For those not up to date on their OS X history, Kodiak came before the long line
Learning GitHub in C Major This is an awesome little app that turns your year of GitHub contributions into song. Since I didn’t become active on GitHub until recently, you’ll need to wait a few moments for the player to reach my contributions. I’
Learning Too Old to Code? I was recently asked the following on Quora: I’m 25 and wish to learn programming. Am I to old to become successful? The media portrays successful programmers who are worth millions to have started coding from a very young age. Here’
Economics Post-Aereo Fallout Legality aside, I really wanted Aereo to win. Consumers face unreasonable prices and have few choices when it comes to US TV providers. As a whole, the industry is outdated and in serious need of competition. A decision for Aereo would have driven disruptive
Internet of Things Aereo Decision Today! 6/25 – Update – SCOTUS rules in favor of Broadcasters 6 to 3. ABC v Aereo Decision 6/23 – Update – After no decision on Friday, I’m eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision in ABC, Inc. v. Aereo.
Internet of Things Learning for 2014 Favorite Tech in 2014: – Elementary OS – a beautifully minimalist Ubuntu-based Linux Distro – Reporter App – flexible self tracking with a phenomenal UI – Unix Command Line – crucial as I’ve started learning node.js – Atom.io – recently
Learning Editor Wars: Picking the Right Tool for the Job As the development application space has undergone a Cambrian explosion of sorts, it’s easy to feel like we are drowning in tools. Since this time last year, I’ve worked within a dizzying number of editing applications. I’ve tried
