What's Coda? Coda is a Crypto Protocol that I am working on as part of the O(1) Labs Team. Coda implements a "succinct" blockchain that effectively "swaps the traditional blockchain for a tiny cryptographic proof." Practically, this means that in...
I run a lot of things on my Desktop Mac Pro at home -- from basic stuff like a Plex media server to more custom projects like web servers or a VPN gateway. It's pretty important that these semi-critical services stay online as much as possible,...
Why Do I Need a Personal Cloud Environment? For a long time now, I have enjoyed doing personal software projects that teach me new skills, frameworks or even programming languages. I think that an engineer in a computer-science-related field...
This is Part 2 of a multi-part post about the amazing software that is Splunk, if you haven't already, head over to Part 1 and check it out. Case Studies There is a virtually limitless set of problems that Splunk easily solves. From the usual IT...
If you've read some of my older posts, you might have seen this one about my personal analytics project project where I used Splunk to index 50,000+ text messages and preform analysis on them. Keeping with the Splunk theme, early this fall I put...