adblock-to-bitcoin: Native WordPress Plugin Available
Categories sideprojects, tools
Adblock-to-bitcoin is now available as a native wordpress plugin. Check it out on WordPress.org
Category: sideprojects
Slack Gamebot
Categories sideprojects, tools
I wrote a gamebot for slack over break. If your startup plays chess, ping pong, bughouse, or something else, game bot is for you. It gives the ability to challenge, record winners, and display stats, all without leaving slack. It looks something like this:
Check it out on github @ https://github.com/owocki/slack_gamebot Read the article >>
Lucid Dreaming for Fun & Profit
Categories community, mind, public-speaking, sideprojects
I gave a talk at Ignite 28 last week. This was my 2nd Ignite talk, and I wanted to do something that was fun & light the 2nd time around. It's on Lucid Dreaming, here it is:
Transcript of the talk is below:
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When I was a kid, I used to dream a lot about superpowers.
As an adult, in the year 2002.
was Read the article >>
Monetize Adblocked Space with Bitcoin
Categories sideprojects, technology, tools
UPDATE 1/11/2016: Check out ad block to bitcoin's wordpress plugin and chrome extension.
I built a fun little tool that turns ads into bitcoin donation solicitations when adblock is enabled. So
becomes:
If you're into supporting publishers as they transition to the new economy, micropayments, or bitcoin in general, check it out here: https://github.com/owocki/adblock-to-bitcoin Read the article >>
Weekend Project Report: Cryptocurrency Mining Rig
Categories sideprojects, technology
I've been cautiously optimistic about BlockChains since 2016 when I had core contributors of both Zcash and Ethereum presenting at one of the Future of Tech Events. Trustless decentralized financial instruments have the potential to be an 'internet of money' and massively disrupt the financial system.
Several months ago, I wrote and open sourced pytrader -- a cryptocurrency Read the article >>
HNTrends: Google Trends For Hacker News
Categories data, sideprojects
I've been brushing on technologies since putting in my notice at Simple Energy, and I'm proud to announce the launch of my latest product, built in Ruby on Rails with gratuitous reliance on Amazon CloudSearch as my persistence layer :
HNTrends.com: Google Trends for Hacker News
TLDR -- Check it out here, click here to download the source data as a PostGres Database.
The thesis behind this Read the article >>
The data will set you free. What does Twitter sentiment analysis say about major Airlines?
Categories data, sideprojects
This Twitter data was scraped from February of 2015 and contributors were asked to first classify positive, negative, and neutral tweets, followed by categorizing negative reasons (such as "late flight" or "rude service"). Thanks CrowdFlower for the data.
Raw number of tweets, segmented by Sentiment
Comments
United had the highest raw volume of negative tweets.
US Airways had the highest Read the article >>