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