Atlhack

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 revisited his love of flight simulators
puyan:
– showing his ctags-enabled text editor
mark:
– reading papers, organizing processing 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.The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

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:

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

Mark:

• sent out alpha invites for Corkbird
• uploaded source code to bitbucket (which is an hg host)

Alex:

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

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

mark
– adding features to corkbird
– uploaded a new version and discovered some bugs

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

alex (rudnick)
– working on typo detection
– wrote about the first annual Rudnick triathalon

rob
– sorting though a list of mp3
– played with processing
– drew lines and changed background when clicking the mouse
mark
– trying to work on corkbird
– but stuck on datastore techniques
alex
– watching the Google Campfire One feed
– months of his work being demoed live