Here are some statistics on drone pilot activity in the US. I obtained all the data from publicly available sources on faa.gov. The data is current as of September 1, 2018. If this is interesting or you want more information, get in touch.
As of September …
Tom7 has an interesting video about portmanteaus. I took the idea to make a program to draw a graph as you move around nodes to shorten the lines (called edges) between them.
Here are some statistics on drone pilot activity in the US. I obtained all the data from publicly available sources on faa.gov. If this is interesting or you want more information, get in touch.
As of August 28 2018, there are at least 61,613 pilots …
Years ago I remember coming across a comment on edwardtufte.com about technical writing. I had forgotten exactly what it said, but remembered it was short, had a snappy title, and followed its own advice.
I discovered it again. The page at the original url is long gone, but the …
Photos from the 2018 Milwaukee air and water show
There are several models of Raspberry Pi with built-in wireless support. They
can be configured to connect to a wireless network before powering on, by
creating a file named wpa_supplicant.conf in the boot partition of your SD
card.
If you have your card properly configured, but the Pi won't …
Sphinx is a really useful tool, but one shortcoming is its markdown support. Specifically, it uses the recommonmark specification, which does not support tables. I wrote a Sphinx extension to render tables authored in markdown.
It can be installed via pip install sphinx-markdown-tables.
If you don't already have Sphinx configured …
I gave a talk on Steganography at Cyphercon 3.0. I want to give thanks to the organizers who put everything together. It was a blast - really fun conference with a lot of things to see, cool demos, and gadgets to try out.
The slides from my talk are available …
Drones can get great aerial photos and video, but they're only as good as the person piloting them. In the right hands, a phone camera can get fantastic shots, and all the equipment in the world won't help if you don't know how to use it.
The first time you …
Here are some things I learned in 2017, a summary of what I worked on the last year, and what I hope to accomplish in 2018.
A lot of them are things that have been said before. I think they bear repeating partially thanks to the lucky 10,000 effect …