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I’m sure just about every programming-related site/blog/whatever starts with this, and maybe there’s a reason for it. With that almost-disclaimer out of the way, it’s great to finally have a good homepage up for the world to see. As I start launching and working on various projects, I’m sure (and hope) that many will wonder things like “who wrote this magnificent code?”, or “who built this useful tool?”, and that is what this site is for.

These projects are what keep me up at night (ordered by a weird mix of most-interesting & most-recent) Kindling An Reflux/React powered Tinder client for FirefoxOS Kindling was a project which was similar to Firegraph in that it was made to fix the fact that there was no Tinder web client or FirefoxOS app. Unfortunately, before the app could be reviewed and put on the app store, devleopment on FirefoxOS ceased.

Trying to insert some data into Konvention today was great practice, and an eye-opener in regards to the use-case of the app. Number of clicks was relatively high (even taking into account that I know where everything is), so I’ll have to work on that soon. There were also some problems with Yii showing errors it shouldn’t (mysql errors, etc) — so I fixed that up. I added a bunch of Python best practices from some recent pages I ran across, also added a “Hide All” button to the recent activity page, and fixed up the snippet part of best practice submission.

So, I’ve been on a real web kick recently, with pretty much 100% of the new projects that I’m taking up (non-work related) are in the web development sphere. Of course, one can’t call themselves a purveyor of the wide world of Computer Science and be biased too firmly in any one field, so I decided to work on some projects that I’ve been throwing around in my head, that have desktop/non-web implementations.

So, finally put a pin in my voice recognition adventures today. I’d been deciding between multiple different open source options: julius, cmusphinx, and simon(briefly). For my purposes, I really wanted as close to a silent API as I could get, so simon didn’t last long. Next I looked at Julius, which after a lot of twiddling, did finally work (I have a USB audio device — that caused a lot of problems, as well as some lack of clarity on how to set up language models for julius), but I ultimately scrapped because of the availability of documentation and language models for cmusphinx.