Author: pav
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Proofreading Your Text with Mac OS X’s Text-To-Speech
I write an almost weekly blog post for HuffPost and I’m terrible at proofreading my own work. I use the text-to-speech function on my Mac to read the text to me. I find I can hear grammar errors in my own work more readily than I can see them. Most word processors and text editors…
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Getting Xcode and GitHub to work together like besties
Updated for Xcode Version 7.3.1 Thanks to Jake for pointing out that his blog post needed a little freshening up! After watching the WWCD keynote I wanted to fool around in Cocoa and Objective-C again. It’s been a while and my Xcode skills were rusty. One task that always seems tricky is getting Xcode’s…
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HuffPost has 250 Million Comments
Screen cap of my appearance on HuffPost Live to announce we got over 250,000,000 comments. More info here at my blog post on the announcement at HuffPost.com
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Everyone should learn to code
I was on a HuffPost Live segment and got a chance to discuss why learning to code is something everyone should do! Movement Grows To Cultivate Computer Programming And I have two HuffPost blog posts talking about coding and drawing and why you should learn to do both.
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Opps! Errors in Google’s Chrome Extension Tutorials
I don’t know why, but I got interested in writing a Chrome Extension. Yeah, I know, like 3 years too late. I figured it would just take an hour and I might learn something about well designed plug and play component architecture. I quickly found the Getting Started tutorial. The screen shots were a bit…
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Bloomberg West TV Interview
Today I was interviewed by Nicole Lapin on Bloomberg West. All-in-all a very pleasant experience. The last question was a bit of curve ball: The topic was “Interactive Election: The Psychology of the Comment” and thus I didn’t expect a Spotify vs. Apple question. Luckily, I am always prepared!
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My Huffington Post Blog Posts
I’ve been writing a weekly blog post for the Tech section of the Huffington Post. Here are links to what I have written so far: Gold Medal For Hacking? CyFi Should Win It — Hacking is competitive sport! Data Mining Can Help, Immediately — Let’s stop arguing about mass murder and actually prevent it with…
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HyperCard: What Made it Leet
I posted a blog entry on HyperCard yesterday on The Huffington Post: HyperCard: The Original Bridge Over the Digital Divide. From the comments and tweets that I got it was pretty clear that us older hackers have fond memories of HyperCard. But there’s the rub–Us older hacker. Kids today, i.e., people in their twenties, missed…
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The Little Computer that Taught Me
The TI 99/4a from Texas Instruments still looks pretty awesome after 32 years! The personal computer I really wanted to work with back then was the Apple II but as a university student of modest means the big Apple was too much for my bank account to handle. I considered the Commodore VIC-20 and Atari…
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How Engineers Will Win
Before reading this, you should read Why Engineers Never Win and Why Engineers Should Win. Ok, now we’re all caught up. I’m optimistic. Yes, I know the world is hurting. I see how the people trying to do good often make things worse. I can’t claim to be insightful when I observe how we celebrate…