A Year in Frontend Development at Zapier

Prior to October 2011, I hadn't written more than a handful of lines of Javascript. I had done my fair share of HTML and ...

jQuery 1.9.1, Yuglify, and UglifyJS

Here's a fun production bug we hit today at Zapier. As with many frontend-heavy sites, we use an asset pipeline to ...

Android Live Webcam Wallpaper

Here's a neat app I found for Android: WebLiveWallpaper. It lets you set any webcam as a live wallpaper on your ...

Nerf Optimization (MAE Capstone Fall 2011)

For our senior Mechanical Engineering capstone, Aaron Wagner and myself set out to investigate the potential positive ...

Manually Closing Individual jGrowl Notifications

jGrowl is a nice little library to show simple JavaScript notifications. Unfortunately, by default, notifications can ...

Pioneer DVR Harddrive Recovery Tools

If you've found this post then you're likely already aware of the failure-prone nature of Pioneer DVR systems. There are ...