Inspired by Mike Gunderloy’s recent blog post, I decided to put together a list of the tools I use, both hardware and software.

Ruby makes it dead simple to generate representative test data.

I’ve found a few greatl tools lately for doing development with Ruby and Rails.

We are headed toward a time where the workings of government are much more visible to the American public.

The emergence of open, non-partisan APIs that provide access to information about how the government is operating is a massive step in the right direction. It will, I hope, bring forth a new wave of websites that mine the data that these web services provide, and expose it to the world. Voting records, government expenditures, bids, and bill details all need to be made available for anyo

Wherein I explain what an Arduino Microcontroller board is, and why you need to have one.

I managed to snag an interview with Mike Rohde, designer and artist extraordinaire.

Between Twitter and Hacker News, I’m not using a feed reader the same way I used to. Are you?

When building my new site, I decided to write my own software to manage it. Here’s a list of the technologies used and abused in the process.

I’ve maintained a blog since sometime in May of 2005. As with many blogs, posting regularity varied. Sometimes it was daily, sometimes a month or two would go by with nothing new at all.

This is something different.

Twitter has had it’s ups and downs, but it’s getting more flak than is deserved.