Todo

As the bot goes on, its algorithm degrades as elements of randomness are introduced.

I made a thing. It started out as an assignment and a learning experience, using JavaScript for the whole stack. Then I learned that it was taking too long. Thus, a classic Ruby on Rails application with some AJAX-y goodness thrown in. Perhaps my favorite features are the differentiation between to-do items and those overdue; and the inclusion of Action Mailer to send a daily agenda. a basic todo list that let’s you know when you’ve failed as a person daily agendas delivered early every morning! [goto](http://arcane-ridge-2246.herokuapp.com/)

Get out your popcorn and a notebook [the paper kind]. A thought-provoking watch with some actionable bits if you want to make some Sublime Text extensions. Seriously, I need to stay away from this subversive nonsense. At least for the next nine weeks. After that, I’m taking on all assumptions and eliminating them. 

I saw the best minds of my generation… writing spam filters. Neal Stephenson, Solve For X

Programming a drone is easy! Install Node.js and get the ar-drone module. All you need to do then is to execute the following code with node. That will make your drone take off, move around, do a flip and carefully land again. Seriously, that’s all! var arDrone = require(‘ar-drone’); var client = arDrone.createClient(); client.takeoff(); client .after(5000, function() { this.clockwise(0.5); }) .after(3000, function() { this.animate('flipLeft’, 15); }) .after(1000, function() { this.stop(); this.land(); }); ...