I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
Make your own IR
goggles (for daylight use, when the IR is strong enough to be seen
by the naked eye) for something like ten bucks. Hint: It involves
theater supplies!
In 1994 or 1995, Dave went around our
high school with a shiny new
QuickTake 100 and collected a mesh of photos for a “virtual walkthrough”
(or what passed for such at the time). Since then the images were lost
to linkrot, and the school actually moved out of its building anyway.
But today, Peter informed
me that he’s gotten the MBHS
Virtual Walkthrough working again. Go visit the computer lab I
lived in (go straight through F and E halls,
through the breezeway
into D
hall, down the staircase,
turn around,
hang a left, and start exploring all the nooks and crannies).
Allow me to just say that Red Pill is hands-down
the best Matrix-code screen saver I’ve ever seen. (For OS X, of
course.)
Remember when Slava wrote that “Shareware Is Dead”
article? (Sure
you do.)
So, now, I bring you this: Shareware
Will Rise Again! by Greg
Costikyan. (He’s mostly referring to shareware games, of course. But the
argument stands on its own, and may even extrapolate to the general
shareware world.)
The New York Times is not fond of Enter The
Matrix. “After we finished the game, Matt and I spent several
minutes trying to think of the most appropriate word to describe the
ending. ‘Heinous’ edged out ‘despicable.'”
Whoa, check out grandtextauto, “A group blog,
smashing up digital narrative, poetry, games and art.”