What do you carry in your backpack?

I’m a software developer and this is everything I was carrying in my backpack today April 26th 2013 (from the top, left to right) A case for SD cards. Raspbery PI I’m toying with at the moment. A roll of #punsr stickers US Passport, you never know when you get a crazy invitation (or emergency) […]

How to GPU-mine BitCoins on a MacBook Pro

I’ve just gotten started into BitCoin a little late in the game (April 2013) and if you’re reading this you’re probably on the same boat. This post details the steps I took to start mining BitCoins with GPU on a MacBook Pro. 1. Get DiabloMiner. You will need to have installed git and a jdk (Java […]

Raspberry PI Game Console Project: Getting an OS to run on it.

(My previous post) So now that we have a Raspberry PI we need an ARM based Operating system to go on it. My original idea is to run Jelly Bean on it, but I couldn’t quickly find an image for the Raspberry PI (which means I’ll either have to find harder or I’m gonna have […]

New FrostWire for Android 1.0.6 – Now with access to Archive.org’s 7.3MM files

Download the APK or get it at Google Play A new FrostWire for Android is here, this is a major update that you should not skip, specially if you’ve had issues in the past. The biggest changes are: Integration with Archive.org Archive.org indexes free files from all over the internet, there’s a huge amount of […]

Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories should be a masterpiece

On May 21st this year, 12 years after their incredibly successful “Discovery” release (and after doing Tron Legacy’s Soundtrack and the not so successful “Human After All” album), french Duo Daft Punk will release Random Access Memories in the US (comes out on the 17th in other countries) with some great collaborators that tell a […]

Sony Walkman NWZ-W262 gift from Klout perks arrives! #Review

First Impressions Feels good in my ears (I’m already used to in-ear buds, this ones have a nice vacuum when you slide them in) Unlike my old sport Sennheiser headphones (which I love for running) the speakers are joined by a thick cable, not a thin cable enclosed by a plastic frame. It took a […]

My First Raspberry PI Project: DIY ARM Video Game Console.

I got everything on amazon, didn’t pay for shipping (Prime member): So far I bought: – Raspberry PI ($48) – Raspberry PI case ($14) – Power adapter ($2.25) – SNES-like Controller with USB jack ($10.75) – SanDisk SDHC 16GB class 6 (30mb/s) ($15) I first intend to install Ubuntu ARM along with several video game […]

Only when you start reading minds you start becoming an expert at something.

I’ve been doing what I now consider truly coding for the last 4 years, but I’ve been doing much simpler programming for 10 years. Something happened more over the last 2 years, as I used other’s peoples libraries and found bugs or thought of ways of improving them, I stopped being afraid or intimidated by […]