When I find myself wanting something, or holding something, or wanting to get rid of something, this helps. 1. Do I love it? 2. Do I use it? 3. Does it work? 4. If I were to buy the item right now how much would I pay for it? 5.

Get the book. The Oresteian Trilogy is the foundation of tragedy. You need to read it just like you need to read The Odyssey. This was my first time through even though I was familiar with the tropes and scenes through references from other works. The plays are a lot

For the past few months I’ve been working on designing and shepherding Word Transformer Lite and it’s finally on the App Store! I’ve been working with Theodore Swartz, the co-founder of The Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, who wrote the initial design notes based on the

I’ve open-sourced my client-side Gabor patch generator, gaborgen-js. I made it because my online experiments expose participants to different distributions of features in stimuli like Gabor patches, and there are a lot of different values those stimuli can hold. Generating them beforehand and uploading and hosting those stimuli to

Here’s how to get Marked.app to do all the Pandoc pre-processing for you when previewing documents. It also explains how to use tufte.css as a theme in Marked, which I find to be very pretty. This comes in really handy when you want to see what your

Yesterday I wrote and published my first open source software, the awfully named jspsi-go-example. It is an experiment module for PsiTurk. PsiTurk makes it easy to run psychology experiments on the web using Amazon Mechanical Turk, where over half a million people do little tasks for a spot of coin.