January 4, 2010
This fall, I took a psych class, Sensation and Perception, with Brett Fajen. The class focused on how our perceptions of the world (primarily through the vision system) are formed and altered. One part of the course involved designing and conducting experiments to measure the abilities and find the limits of human perception.
I designed two [...]
December 15, 2009
The Chrome Extensions Gallery opened up last week, bringing extensions to millions of Chrome users. Ahead of the opening, I developed an extension which answered a question I’ve asked myself almost daily while on the web: Where is this short link taking me?
Some web apps, like Brizzly, will automatically expand short links on their site, [...]
September 1, 2009
GoFishn officially launched its alpha version today. After over a year of hard work on the team’s and my part, it’s satisfying to see a project reach this level of completion. There’s still lots to be done, and the next few months promise to be busy as we work towards the next launch.
Alpha invites will [...]
August 12, 2009
I just redesigned the site in order to do a few things:
Cleaner layout
HTML 5
CSS 3
Just looking at the site, you’ll wonder where all the HTML 5 is. All of it is under the hood. I’m taking advantage of the <header>, <nav>, <article>, and <footer> tags to improve the mark up on my site. In fact, [...]
July 19, 2009
About three weeks I caught wind of the Cliqset Developer Challenge on their email list. After brainstorming and digging around their API documentation, I came up with the idea for cliqDNA, a cool web app which gives you a perspective on how you use the web and how your habits compare with the Cliqset [...]