Hackfest 10011101

June 30th, 2009 by alexr

Hackfest 10011101! The hack without a name.

Rob:
- making art.
- made a four-color picture of Ric Flair, Warhol style!!
- We’ll put a link soon.

Mark:
- sent in a logo to the Freeside people
- tried to figure out Google Calendar API to integrate with an IRC bot

Lindsey and Alex:
- this week: competed in ICFP Contest 2009!!
- will blog about it soon
- maybe found a house
- tonight: Alex chilled out and read blogs, thought about typos

Hackfest 10011100

June 23rd, 2009 by alexr

It’s hot and sweaty outside (and also in our brains) hack!

Bill:
- Chatted with Alex about netbooks, work, GIS systems, programming languages
- played some nethack

Emily:
- Tried to figure out why mongodb hates twitter (maybe having issues with the Twitpocalypse)
- Read some RSSs

Alex:
- worked on detecting some typos, found a pretty serious bug in the typo detect-o-matic
- so close to being done with this part of the detect-o-matic
- drank a lot of coffee

Lindsey (remote):
- yesterday, gave a talk at Beer ‘n’ Algorithms about Turing Machines with oracles and relativization

Mark:
- Stuck at work, unfortunately. Possibly working on plugging in to Outlook? …

Hackfest 10011011

June 16th, 2009 by alexr

Alternating fits of intense concentration and socializing hack!

Rob:
- made a chiptune (”a chip-ette tune”)
- looked at stuff for school

Alex:
- detecting some typos: finishing up the feature generator, appreciating the parser setup
- 2009 Alex is a much better software engineer than 2006-2007 Alex
- chatted with Zach G and Lindsey

Lindsey:
- furious paper-writing session with Dave B; sudden inspiration struck
- triangular substitutions are awesome for implementing logical programming for Scheme

Sonali:
- working on javascript stuff for dayjob

Tejus:
- setting up development tools on the Ubuntu Netbook Remix install on his netbook
- chatting with Alex about Linux, Ubuntu, and netbooks

Mark:
- working on CorkBird!
- adding comments and ajax paging

Hackfest 10011010

June 2nd, 2009 by alexr

Get Excited Make Stuff Hack!

Met Lauren and Kyle (new members who don’t know it yet):
- getting into twitter, trying to get lots of twitter followers (they’re @LAliciaKeyz and @KYeasley).
- Cewebrity status imminent.

Rob
- Started setting up a wordpress blog
- LOAD THE SPACESHIP WITH THE ROCKET FUEL. Chopping up wrestling promo videos with Ableton.
- finding cs1315 really easy, thinking about Technology of Representation and open standards in history

Mark
- Building a processing sketch to make randomized maps of suburban neighborhoods. With the Voronoi algorithm.
- had dinner with his brother Paul

Alex
- setting up the adorable new laptop (Dell Mini 12 with Ubuntu 9.04), made a script to turn off touchpad so he doesn’t accidentally click on things while typing
- set up wiki pages to study for quals
- worked a little bit on typo detection

Lindsey
- finishing reading The Reasoned Schemer, which is proving to be illuminating about logic programming with Scheme
- starting in on Modern Operating Systems tonight!

Hackfest 10011001

May 26th, 2009 by Mark Luffel

brandon:
- friend of puyan’s
- his day job is writing C code for French set-top boxes
bill:
- writing about doublethink and organizational behavior
- has recently revisted his love of flight simulators
puyan:
- showing his ctags-enabled text editor
mark:
- reading papers, organizing procesing sketches
alex rae:
- hacking obscure binary formats for a summer project

Hackfest 10011000

May 19th, 2009 by Mark Luffel

Alex
- generating efficient java code from a WEKA classifier
Mark
- added readline support to the v8 javascript shell
- scouting the processing community on twitter

Hackfest 10010111

May 13th, 2009 by Lindsey Kuper

Post-track-meet hack!

Alex, Mark, and Lindsey ran in the ATC All-Comers Track Meet; Alex posted our race results.

We then proceeded to Octane for hacking, but were all kind of tired. Mark and Alex did work stuff while Lindsey procrastinated.

Hackfest 10010110

April 28th, 2009 by Mark Luffel

Alex (Rae)
- externals for Pure Data, in C
- minimal GUI in wxPython
- perhaps working on a music iPhone app this summer
- planning to use PD/C for prototyping

Sonali
- dealing with thickbox + jquery issues
- for work :(

Tejus
- multipart form uploads in jquery + rails
- for secret side project

Mark
- working on corkbird
- doing memcache
- learning how to migrate a schema
- getting better at django

Alex (Rudnick)
- looked at different linux laptops
- getting scala sudoku solver ready to open-source
- considered planning a fun programming activity for middle-schoolers

Hackfest 10010101

April 21st, 2009 by alexr

Rob:

  • almost done with the semester… ?
  • chillaxing for the evening: blogs and scrabble.
  • omfg: Lego Rock Band will have “The Final Countdown” by Europe

Mark:

Alex:

  • saw a silly movie: Los Campeones de Lucha Libre
  • made a post about Scala with GWT on Eclipse. “Technology sandwich!”

Hackfest 10010100

April 14th, 2009 by Mark Luffel

alex (rae)
- has finished his thesis!
- explored extensions to standard beat tracking algorithms

mark
- added features to corkbird
- uploaded a new version and discovered some bugs

rob
- made half a song in ableton
- learned about FM synthesis

alex (rudnick)
- worked on typo detection
- wrote about the first annual Rudnick triathalon