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Oct 20, 2021 Memory Jogger Update
Memory Jogger is a program I wrote to help me find interesting articles and videos I had saved in Pocket. I wrote about it previously in this post. It started as a program to send me daily email digests of items I had previously saved that were related to current events (via Google Trends data).
Jul 12, 2020 Announcing Memory Jogger, relevant email digest for Pocket
I am excited to announce that I recently open sourced Memory Jogger, an app that I built and have been using for the past few months that emails me unread articles and videos I’ve saved.
Jan 6, 2020 Photoshop 2020 Launch
I am excited to announce that Photoshop 2020 has shipped and is my first desktop release since I joined the team in July! When you launch the Photoshop 2020 app one of the initial loading screen lists the Photoshop team members and, if the entropy is just right, you’ll see my name listed (it randomizes the non-leadership team members).
Jan 4, 2020 Web Scraping with Jupyter Notebooks
Last year I worked on a web scraper to automatically download Creative Market’s Free Goods of the Week. Each week, Creative Market sends an email to subscribers to download these 6 free assets. Subscribers then log in, go to https://creativemarket.com/free-goods, and then click one or both of the “Sync to Dropbox” or “Free Download” buttons. My partner was manually doing this each day and when I was looking for a software project to work on, this seemed like a good candidate for automation that would remove a small, but minor inconvenience of hers.
Jul 29, 2015 Windows 10 Launch
Last week I attended the awesome Windows & Devices Group scavenger hunt at Seattle’s EMP Museum. One of the exhibits there featured the amazing work of Chuck Jones, an animator, cartoon artist, and more from Spokane Washington. I grew up watching Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Road Runner cartoons on Boomerang, and it was pretty cool to learn more about the man behind them. At the exhibit, there was one of his quotes on the wall:

All great endeavors are 90% hard work and 10% love and only the love should show

I’ve been running Windows 10 since day 1 of my internship, through the good builds and the bad (builds are just versions of the OS). It’s come a long way in the two months I’ve been here and I’m very excited for its road ahead.

Windows 10 releases today. My hope is that only the love shows.
Jun 10, 2015 Raspberry Pi Console Cable
Where have you been all my life.

That’s how this cable makes me feel. Let me show you a magical cable that allows you to log into the Raspberry Pi shell from your computer, be it Windows, Mac, or Linux. If you are connecting to a Raspberry Pi 1 model, then this is all you need. For the Raspberry Pi 2, you will need an external power supply to power the Raspberry Pi, as the console cable does not supply enough power.
Feb 7, 2015 Microsoft 2015 Summer Internship

I am very excited to announce that I will be joining Microsoft’s Core Group this summer. I do not know what specific team I will be working with, but I hope to work in their Internet of Things or Windows OS groups.
Jul 31, 2014 Why Technology and Liberal Arts?
Through secondary school I loved all of the subjects. But inevitably, there were days where homework was not what I felt like doing. On these days, I found myself using homework from one subject to avoid the homework from another. Math would trump Spanish, and Spanish would pummel English. While eventually it all was all complete, I enjoyed watching as my interests became apparent in my decisions.
Jan 8, 2014 Meatless January
During January 2014, I will not be eating meat. More specifically, I will be a lacto-ovo-pescetarian, meaning I will still consume dairy, eggs, and fish. When I first indicated interest in this at the end of 2013, I received mixed reactions. Some strongly for, others neutral, and a surprising amount of people who were strongly against. I want to begin this discussion by explaining why I am doing this and will conclude with an explanation for the responses I received.
Jan 7, 2014 If I had Glass
I don’t think I’d wear it very often. Don’t get me wrong, it looks awesome, like when science-fiction meets reality. When the price decreases significantly, which it’s expected to this year, it will be hard to ignore. It’s clear Google and other tech companies want to lead us into the future with Glass and other “wearable electronics,” but I’m not sure it’s the future I want.