All Blog Posts

January 20, 2025
Can confirm, HURT 100 hurts — running, hurt100, life
May 14, 2024
Cocodona 2024 — running, cocodona, life
February 23, 2024
Unwavering dedication — running, byu, life, family
October 5, 2023
Little Dog's Backyard Ultra: Take 2 — running, byu
September 20, 2023
The future of Leo: A roadmap for Brave’s built-in AI browser assistant — brave, ai
June 5, 2023
Achievement Unlocked — running
May 8, 2023
Cocodona 250 — running, cocodona
October 18, 2022
National Big Dog's Backyard Ultra World Championships - Team Canada — running, byu
June 4, 2022
FAwR 2022 — running
May 23, 2022
Perfect conditions at the Perfect PR Backyard Ultra — running, byu
October 3, 2021
Little Dog's Backyard Ultra: From despair to naive optimism — running, byu
January 19, 2021
IPFS support in Brave — brave, ipfs
August 17, 2020
Diary of a selfless, good dog — family
May 12, 2020
My first 100 mile run - Woodstock Hallucination — running
November 13, 2019
The road to Brave 1.0 — brave, mozilla, khan-academy
July 8, 2016
Shutting down Code Firefox — mozilla, firefox, codefirefox
January 20, 2016
Brave Software — brave, electron, node, firefox, firefox-ios, mozilla, gecko
August 25, 2015
The Link Bubble Android web browser has gone fully free — link-bubble, android, web
May 29, 2015
Thank you Khan Academy, switching careers — career, personal, khan-academy
November 27, 2014
Developing and releasing the Khan Academy Firefox OS app — khan-academy, mozilla, firefox-os, firefox, web
November 26, 2014
SQL on Khan Academy enabled by SQLite, sqljs, asm.js and Emscripten — firefox, khan-academy, mozilla, web
November 25, 2014
Automated end to end testing at Khan Academy using Gecko — khan-academy, firefox, mozilla, web
July 20, 2014
Making programming easier on Khan Academy - 2014 Hackathon project — javascript, khan-academy, hackathon
July 9, 2014
Peer evaluations for coding projects on Khan Academy — khan-academy
April 26, 2014
My first week at Khan Academy — javascript, google-app-engine, python, khan-academy
March 18, 2014
Does Modern UI Firefox usage indicate Windows 8.1 modern UI is in trouble? — firefox, status-report, mozilla, windows8
March 14, 2014
Switching careers, next steps — mozilla, khan-academy, firefox
March 5, 2014
Investing in our community through Code Firefox — mozilla, firefox, codefirefox
November 18, 2013
Short one video per concept Firefox development videos — mozilla, codefirefox, firefox
November 6, 2013
Shared profiles for Metro Firefox and Desktop Firefox — windows8, status-report, mozilla, firefox
October 4, 2012
Firefox Metro Preview Release - Status update 8 — mozilla, status-report, firefox, windows8
September 18, 2012
Preparing for the Firefox for Windows 8 Metro preview, status update 7 — windows8, firefox, mozilla, status-report
August 15, 2012
Firefox for Windows 8 Metro - Front end updates, crash reporting, pdfs, and more, status update 6 — firefox, windows8, mozilla, status-report
August 3, 2012
What is it like to work as a remote engineer at Mozilla — career, mozilla, firefox
July 27, 2012
User study on mentoring a large first bug — mozilla, firefox, mentor
July 19, 2012
Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, status update 5 — firefox, status-report, windows8, mozilla
July 4, 2012
Retrospection - My first year at Mozilla — firefox, mozilla, career
July 8, 2012
Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop applications — visual-studio, firefox, windows8, mozilla
May 26, 2012
Visual Studio 11 Express - No support for building desktop applications nor metro style enabled desktop browsers — mozilla, firefox, visual-studio, windows8
May 26, 2012
DirectX and XAML interop - Great feature, but not for metro style enabled desktop browsers — windows8, xaml, directx, firefox, mozilla
May 26, 2012
Important change to UAC when disabled with process integrity in Windows 8 — firefox, mozilla, uac, windows8
May 10, 2012
What will the Windows 8 Metro UI look and feel like? — mozilla, firefox, windows8
May 10, 2012
Windows 8 on ARM users need browser choice too — windows8, firefox, mozilla
April 30, 2012
Firefox work week Windows 8 talk — mozilla, windows8, firefox, talks
April 22, 2012
The latest on Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, status update 4 — firefox, status-report, mozilla, windows8
April 2, 2012
A working Firefox Windows 8 Metro prototype, status update 3 — mozilla, status-report, windows8, firefox
March 26, 2012
Frequently asked questions for Silent Updates in Firefox — silent-update, firefox, mozilla
March 25, 2012
Review of the book Node for Front-End Developers by Garann Means — review, book, oreilly, nodejs
March 17, 2012
Firefox Metro development heating up, 2nd status update — firefox, windows8, mozilla, status-report
March 9, 2012
Firefox Metro development begins, status update — firefox, mozilla, status-report, windows-8
February 8, 2012
Snappy optimizations for faster Firefox startup — pref, snappy, firefox, mozilla
October 5, 2011
Mozilla platform development cheat sheet — firefox, mozilla, development
September 30, 2011
Mozilla Firefox and silent updates — uac, windows, mozilla, firefox, silent-update
September 15, 2011
Windows 8 and Thunderbird first looks — thunderbird, windows, mozilla, windows8
September 14, 2011
Windows 8 and Firefox first looks — windows, firefox, mozilla, windows8
August 7, 2011
Review of The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston — book, css, oreilly, review
July 10, 2011
Web optimizations and canvas exporting with data URLs — http, firefox, mozilla, dataurl, web
June 12, 2011
What you should know about HTTP pipelining — http, firefox, pipelining
June 8, 2011
Switching careers, starting soon with Mozilla — personal, mozilla, xul, xpcom, career
April 26, 2011
StackExchange average age of users for each tag — stackexchange, data-analysis, stackoverflow
April 25, 2011
Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook lists updated for StackExchange April dumps — stackoverflow, stackexchange, data-analysis
April 24, 2011
Converting a Django site to Google App Engine — python, django, google-app-engine
April 24, 2011
Review of Programming Google App Engine — django, google-app-engine, book, review, python
April 29, 2011
My company was acquired — business, personal, backup
April 24, 2011
Review of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know — review, book, programming
February 22, 2011
Five Windows 7 taskbar features available to developers — winapi, c++, windows, win7
February 12, 2011
12 things web developers should know about Firebug — firebug, firefox, html, javascript
February 6, 2011
The big picture of how Khan Academy development works — google-app-engine, python, javascript, khan-academy
January 16, 2011
Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook StackOverflow lists updated — stackexchange, stackoverflow, data-analysis
January 6, 2011
Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook StackOverflow user lists sorted by reputation — data-analysis, stackexchange, stackoverflow
January 3, 2011
73 percent of StackExchange users from StackOverflow — data-analysis, stackoverflow, stackexchange
January 1, 2011
Twitter accounts for all StackOverflow users by reputation — stackoverflow, twitter, data-analysis, stackexchange
December 17, 2010
Stackoverflow amongst nofollow web abuse sites — stackoverflow, nofollow, seo
December 11, 2010
Review of The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun — book, review, oreilly
November 20, 2010
Review of HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim — book, review, html5, oreilly, html, xhtml
October 23, 2010
Windows Phone 7 development overview in 2 minutes — wp7, mobile, c-sharp, visual-studio, windows
October 19, 2010
Understanding Windows at a deeper level - Sessions, Window Stations, and Desktops — windows, winapi
September 4, 2010
Stopping spam without CAPTCHA — akismet, captcha, spam, seo
July 17, 2010
Django tagging — django, site
July 9, 2010
Django Comment Framework — django, site
July 3, 2010
Microsoft MVP for Visual C++ July 2010 - July 2011 — c++, mvp, personal
March 17, 2010
The sad life of SVG up until... NOW — web, svg
December 18, 2009
One of the joys of Python - Generators — c++, math, python
December 12, 2009
Forward declaring enums in C++ — c++, c++0x, c-sharp
December 10, 2009
Pure virtual function call errors and related behavior — c-sharp, c++, python
November 12, 2009
Arrays are not the same as pointers! — c++
September 21, 2009
Introducing the rope data structure! — c++, data-structure
September 21, 2009
2 books I'm reading... — c-sharp, python, book
September 19, 2009
How VNC, Fog Creek Copilot and other remote control software works — how-stuff-works, nat
August 22, 2009
The new site is out! — django, site
August 21, 2009
PyISAPIe with Django 1.1 and Python 2.6 — django, site
August 18, 2009
Overloading logical operators — c++
August 7, 2009
Braille and Morse Code — encoding
August 5, 2009
Wedding Anniversary — personal
July 28, 2009
Slow compilation time in C-C++ — c, c++, g++, visual-studio
April 1, 2009
Python's holy grail — python
February 5, 2009
The twins have arrived — personal
August 9, 2008
How to change the port for RDP? — misc
August 2, 2008
Big news — personal
April 13, 2008
Easy taxes for Ontario Canada — personal
April 5, 2008
Solution Environment Variables for Visual Studio — visual-studio
March 30, 2008
Why is math important? — c++, math
February 3, 2008
Microsoft - Yahoo — microsoft, yahoo
August 23, 2007
Windsor Social sucks — personal
August 6, 2007
Married — personal
July 28, 2007
Funny Simpsons quote — misc
June 3, 2007
Interview with Steve and Bill — tech
May 29, 2007
Parallels with Mac Book Pro — apple, mac-book-pro
May 28, 2007
Why do file copy dialogs suck so much? — misc
April 4, 2007
Apple hardware hype advantage — apple, microsoft
April 4, 2007
Windows vista annoyance — windows
January 24, 2007
The trouble with Internet Explorer — internet-explorer, microsoft, svg
January 11, 2007
Writing good and easy to understand emails — english, misc
December 11, 2006
A story of a 17 inch MacBook Pro — apple, mac-book-pro
December 5, 2006
Windows Vista information and thoughts — windows
November 27, 2006
Thoughts on Apple and Microsoft — apple, microsoft
November 27, 2006
Information on the Macintosh — apple, mac
November 26, 2006
Apple 30" cinema display — apple
November 26, 2006
Useful visual studio shortcut key — visual-studio
November 24, 2006
Linked senses — misc
November 24, 2006
Transparent fridge and washing machine — misc
November 20, 2006
Amazing video about a blind kid — misc
November 8, 2006
White and Nerdy — misc
November 7, 2006
Can you answer this brain teaser? — puzzle
November 6, 2006
Stay hungry, stay foolish — apple, tech
November 2, 2006
iTV will change the world — apple
November 2, 2006
Steve Jobs — apple
October 24, 2006
Random Wikipedia page — wikipedia
October 20, 2006
IE 7 released — internet-explorer
October 18, 2006
18 mistakes that kill startups — business
October 9, 2006
Added picture — personal
October 9, 2006
Google trumps Yahoo! and MSN — google, microsoft, yahoo
October 5, 2006
Nintendo power glove - cooler than the wii remote? — gaming
October 5, 2006
Google Code Search — google
October 5, 2006
A map of the Internet — misc, tech
October 4, 2006
10 million to any team that can completely decode the genes of 100 people in 10 days — misc, tech
September 30, 2006
Google desktop search is annoying — google
September 20, 2006
Prize Money — misc, tech
September 18, 2006
Great local band — misc
September 9, 2006
Visual studio C++ suggestion — c++, visual-studio
September 3, 2006
Nice wallpapers for your computer — misc
September 2, 2012
Boot Camp — apple
August 25, 2012
Managing Gigabytes - Compression and IR — book, compression
August 17, 2006
Google analytics now open to all users — google, analytics
August 16, 2006
Studies in lossless data compression — compression
August 13, 2006
Hutter Prize - Compress human knowledge — compression, misc, tech
August 13, 2006
New service URLZip — urlzip
August 11, 2006
URL redirecting temporarily disabled — urlzip
April 22, 2006
Writely - Forgot password leads to new account — google
July 25, 2006
Google tech talk: Python 3000 — google, python
July 19, 2006
XULRunner = cool — firefox, xul
July 16, 2006
Ubuntu package installs — linux, ubuntu
July 16, 2006
Installed Ubuntu Linux — linux, ubuntu
July 14, 2006
Wikipedia contributions — wikipedia
July 14, 2006
Learning Cocoa with Objective C on XCode — apple, c++, cocoa, xcode, objective-c
July 14, 2006
UDP-TCP hole punching — nat, tc, udp
July 4, 2006
Got a new apple computer — apple, imac
July 3, 2006
DynamicDNS addition — ddns
July 25, 2006
Screen resolutions — web
June 15, 2006
Long URLs to small URLs — urlzip
June 14, 2006
Dynamic DNS update — ddns
June 14, 2006
Added submit URL button to Links page — site
June 13, 2006
Dynamic DNS — ddns
May 21, 2006
New tools added and updated look and feel of the site — site
September 15, 2005
Signup page — site
August 30, 2005
What's my IP? — site
August 29, 2005
Archived old front page — site
August 1, 2005
FTP protocol overview — ftp, protocol, networking
June 11, 2005
Windows 64Bit AMD and Intel processor rundown — ia64, windows, x64
March 23, 2005
STL mini tutorial - strings, vectors, and maps — c++, stl
March 23, 2005
How email works? — email, http, imap, pop3, smtp, networking