podcasts Status - Immigration & People In 2017 and 2018, I made a podcast called Status.Status tells the humans stories that immigration impacts from the perspective of immigrants and their loved ones.You can listen here, or you
PodRec - Joining the bot movement (tl;dr Bots are cool. Estherbot is cool. PodRec is my bot that recommends podcast episodes on Facebook Messenger.) Message us This is PodRec. PodRec recommends you one podcast episode at a time
Project Updates Yana seems like forever ago. It's been a crazy path since then, and I wanted to give a little update into what I've been doing over the past months. Check out a summary
Yana - An Adventure in Design I've been taking a class at the d.school at Stanford called "d.media - Designing Media that Matters". I took this class out of a desire to learn more about
Triple CCRMAlite/Bay Area Science Festival Since September, I've been studying at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. You might know it better as CCRMA (pronounced "karma"). CCRMA was founded by
sound-sphere In my work at CCRMA, I've developed a spherical audio visualizer called sound-sphere. So original! If you want to check it out, you can head over to the very tongue-in-cheek product site I
Ember.js - Updating a view on controller data change I often find myself needing to update my Ember Views after a promise has been fulfilled or after some data has changed. I've come up against this problem and solved and re-solved it
Ember Array Sorting without ArrayController One thing I come up against in my work is the need to sort arrays in Ember in cases where using an ArrayController just will not work. We have a few very complex
Using Chosen.js with Ember In my last post, I told you how I was working on an Ember project using a lot of UI libraries. One of those libraries is Chosen from the team at Harvest. Chosen
ember Ember, jQuery, and UI libraries When developing with Ember, we often need to perform some jQuery manipulation that would be a lot simpler in a traditional development environment. Because Ember inserts content into the DOM after page load,
Spotify Code Challenges Spotify is one of the biggest names in technology right now. Celebrities have opinions on Spotify, and so does your aunt. It seen as either the savior or the destroyer or the music
GridEYE Project - Update Just an update on the GridEYE project I talked about before. The advising professor on the project provided our team with one device. For a while, we were wary to solder that part
Compiling playrec on Mac OS X 10.8 This is not guaranteed to work. I have not tried it since a few weeks after I wrote this blog post. I get emails now and again asking to help debug compilation errors,
Senior Design 2 - Grid Eye Sensor Thermal sensors are nothing new. The issue is that current IR sensors are not able to create thermal images and they cannot identify targets not in motion. The Grid-Eye Sensor, a product from
Digital Audio Player and Crossover EDIT: This project requires the use of msound, a non-blocking audio interface for MATLAB. Unfortunately, msound is not compiled for Mac OS X, as it was developed using PortAudio. More information on msound
