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Flystein saved me over 1000 dollars on flight costs and all they got was this blog post

I spent about half an hour on Skyscanner and Google Flights, and couldn’t find flights for less than about $3,000. Which is a lot. At roughly the same ti...

Hackathon - A retrospective - a talk

in February about a hackathon we ostensibly threw.

Did I say Estonia? I meant Costa Rica

I'm putting Estonia on hold - still excited to go there, and hoping to do so in April or May, once it warms up again.

When visas turn into pumpkins

My US work visa runs out in a month, so I'm leaving for about a year to go travel. I start on August 2014.

Hackonomics 101

I helped organize HackCon, a conference for student hackathon organizers, this past weekend in NY.

Houston Admin Talk at Meteor Devshop 10

I gave a talk at the latest Meteor Devshop a couple of weeks ago about Houston, the Django-Admin like tool that Greg, Geoff and I are working on for Meteor.

Migrating Divvy configurations between computers

I've been using Divvy the tiling tool for OSX (and windows) ever since I switched to using Macs full-time in 2010. It's great.

The Art of Rejection

At an event last week, I was introduced to the CEO of a post series-A startup I'd been following and found quite interesting. We spoke about his company ...

Hackathon Hacks for Organizers

To that end, here are some hackathon hacks I've noticed or come up with over the past few years. If you're working on putting together your next hackatho...

How PennApps Labs Came to Be

Cobol on Rails was built in PHP and mySQL. It was the first serious web project that a few friends and I undertook.