Thoughts before my next ten years
A reflection on the past decade of work across government, big tech, startups, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and venture capital while thinking about what comes next.
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Thoughts on my 33rd birthday
A few personal updates. Today is my 33rd birthday, and in somewhat abrupt fashion, I am moving to San Francisco. It feels particularly significant for the reasons I’ll...
Second order effects of companies as content creators
TLDR: There’s going to be a shit ton of temporarily useful content; businesses need to have a quick way to make the worthwhile content stand out. (Thanks Joseph) There...
Text rendering stuff most people might not know
I was stuck on a problem that I wanted to write out. The problem I was trying to solve could be simplified to the following: I have a box in the browser with fixed...
Why is video editing so horrible today?
In the last three months, I have done more video post-production than I have done in the past 12 years. Surprisingly, in these years, nothing seems to have changed....
Making the variable fonts Figma plugin (part 1 – what is variable fonts [simple])
See this video summary at the bottom of the post, or by clicking this picture. Important update: The statement that Google Fonts only displays a single variable font axis...
React Figma Plugin – How to get data from the canvas to your app
I had much too hard of a time groking the Figma Plugin’s documentation, and thought I would leave a note for any brave souls to follow. Figma has a great API and...
Turning 31, and reflecting on the past 10 years
2020 Soka University of America Tomorrow is my birthday, and I turn 31 years old. I didn’t think as much about what turning 30 meant last year, so taking a pause to write...
Which expensive events permanently go digital?
One of the more interesting conversations I had recently was with a b2b sales director, who could clearly articulate the before and after changes from Covid. In short,...
The Unreal Engine in film production
Unreal engine used to shoot the Mandalorian using large LED screens synced with cameras The film industry is an opaque producer of quality entertainment, which I have...
Three considerations for job searching
Over the past 10 years, I have formed opinions on the pros and cons of working at companies and organizations of varying sizes. While there are plenty of guides to the...
Senior meets junior lessons learned, and some thoughts about the future of remote work
High level summary Last month, I setup a brief survey on Typeform and submitted it to ProductHunt as a project called “Senior meets junior”. Senior meets junior was...
Thoughts on side projects
I recently visited my best friend from college. We were both city boys who caused trouble as teenagers, and connected over our free spirited willingness for fun. Since...
Goodbye 155
Yesterday was the “Goodbye 155” celebrating the next steps for Orbital’s historic 155 Rivington St location. More than anything, the night felt more like the closing of a...
How Public Art works
Details on my React-Native iOS application backed by a Ruby on Rails backend and some Python Jupyter notebook scripts Public Art is an iOS application that helps you...
Short announcement: App went out.
And I added 20,000 new photos in the last two weeks Quick update to keep with the bi-weekly rhythm. This one will be shorter than others. Last email I shared background...
Weekly update February 19, 2019
Bi-weekly update for February 19th, 2019 Hey! I promised a bi-weekly update, so heres #2! I did a lot of new development this past two weeks. To kick it off, I started...
Weekly update Monday, February 4
Weekly update February 4, 2019 I will be doing my best to send a bi-weekly update on the progress around my efforts to build out a street art genealogy online, and create...
On Building an Instagram Street Art Dataset and Detection Model
What if you could pump all of the Instagram photos of Banksy’s artwork into a program that could pinpoint where the next one’s likely to be? Well, we aren’t there quite...
Tracking street art with machine learning — updates
Mural from Reyes, Revok and Steel from MSK (https://www.fatcap.com/live/revok-steel-and-reyes.html) Thank you for following the Public Art[⁰] project for building a...
On the post-centralization of social media
Below are some running thoughts on the centralization of social media. I have been reactivating many of my public art crawlers for publicart.io. In the process, I am only...
Machine learning
I used to work at www.comet.ml, where they are building a really amazing tool for machine learning engineers. The short of it is they help track experiments using a...
Learning to apply Machine Learning tools and Computer Vision as a Rails Developer
This is a follow up on my process of developing familiarity with computer vision and machine learning techniques. As a web developer (read as “rails developer”), I found...
How I built a REST endpoint based Computer Vision task using Flask
This is a follow up on my process of developing familiarity with computer vision and machine learning techniques. As a web developer (read as “rails developer”), I found...
Two months exploring deep learning and computer vision
Repost from Medium I decided to develop familiarity with computer vision and machine learning techniques. As a web developer, I found this growing sphere exciting, but...