i want to make an app that uses ocr to grab the price of gas and how many gallons i got on a given date from a photo of a fuel receipt at a gas station.
Category: projects
Projects that I’m working on.
setting up a new Discourse instance for zine.cloud
I started a new project, a zine exchange club called Zine Cloud! Here’s what I did to get started with Discourse. 0. made a new email address1. bought the domain zine.cloud on spaceship.com2. set up mail forwarding3. spun up a one-click install of Discourse as a DigitalOcean droplet– details of the droplet: 4 GB Memory… Continue reading setting up a new Discourse instance for zine.cloud
12/1/12 Spot sang
Last week, Spot the Octopus opened for DeCadence on one of their semester concert days. It was fun! We sang four songs — Istanbul (as made popular by tmbg), Monster (an original by Angela), House by the Sea (iron & wine), and La Grippe (squirrel nut zippers). Here is a playlist: =)
Lightning Talks 8/21!
I facilitated the Women Who Code lightning talks at Parisoma on 8/21! Chiu-ki took video, so here they are: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04E221047CDFB391&feature=plcp
PhoneGap + Wikipedia meetup (1/23)
I went to the PhoneGap + Wikipedia event at Adobe immediately after the Wikipedia hackathon. I heard about it that Monday in the irc room O_O and thought initially that I couldn’t go, because I usually have Spot the Octopus rehearsal on Mondays… but that week, some Spots were sick and others out of town,… Continue reading PhoneGap + Wikipedia meetup (1/23)
Wikipedia SF Hackathon! BERLIN HO!!!
I went to the Wikipedia SF Hackathon this weekend at Parisoma! Neil and I coded a phone gateway for the English Wikipedia on Twilio. You send it a text with your search query (like “Barak Obama” or “Seattle”) and it calls you back in a few seconds and reads you the entire text of the… Continue reading Wikipedia SF Hackathon! BERLIN HO!!!
xmarks vs firefox sync (vs google sync?)
I have been using both xmarks and Firefox Sync to keep track of my Firefox bookmarks across different computers, but haphazardly. Last week I noticed my bookmarks weren’t synced. Do I need to choose between them? This blog post from June 2010 is about using both simultaneously. The post goes over how Firefox Sync encrypts… Continue reading xmarks vs firefox sync (vs google sync?)
introspective at 3am
It’s easier to microblog than to post here. Here, I have to talk in complete sentences, and my strings of words have to make sense. In microblogging, I can just throw my chaff to the wind and watch it sparkle in the wind on the fading sunlight. I don’t know how I feel about Egypt.… Continue reading introspective at 3am
Spot sings LoL carols
Tonight, I made Spot the Octopus sing two holiday carols for 25MTS! 1. Spot the Octopus – League of Legends Jingle Bells 2. Twelve Days of Snowdown, but, uh, I can’t upload things > 2 mb. haha Well, here they both are on Posterous, because it has a built-in flash player. http://spottheoctopus.posterous.com/spot-sings-lol-holiday-carols Lyrics: Jingle Bells… Continue reading Spot sings LoL carols
first spam
This blog just got its first-ever spam comment. It got placed into Askimet’s “pending” queue, and I marked it as spam. Hooray!