Recently I applied to work for the Dots game company, and part of the interview process is to recreate their classic DOTs game in the Unity game engine. I had no problem doing that…

While talking with one of my friends who also enjoy's playing Pinball machines, I brought up how odd it is that Nintendo's Mario had not one, but two physical pinball machines duri…

While developing my Worms World Party TI-89 remake, I realized that after 18 years of development experience that I wasn't as intimidated by the C language as much as I previously …

Joking around, my friend and I were talking about "Bredtangle Pizzas" that were rectangular pizza's often sold in schools in the USA. We were tired from work, at the end of the day…

Several years ago I wrote about a code project I made for my Texas Instruments TI-89 Graphing Calculator. It was a Worms World Party fan clone. Well, despite the fact that I made t…

I was browsing Reddit the other day and someone drew a spiral clock: https://www.reddit.com/r/drawing/comments/44kfdd/quick_drawing_i_did_a_while_ago_i_like_time/ I liked the idea,…

Check www.classetta.com for a quick demo. Part of being a programmer is knowing and working in many different languages. While most languages follow the same basic principals, thei…

A long time a go I wrote a paint-bucket style painting application. Just for fun I decided to make a special mode where the paint bucket would randomly change colors at various tim…

TL;DR: I made a plotter that uses rotations to draw, and it's hypnotic to watch. So recently I imagined an interesting way for a robot to draw images. Typically drawing robots (som…

The Story I love going to the flea market - over the years I've found many items money can't buy. On a recent trip my friend and I discovered a music kiosk store display for only $…

As I wrote about earlier, I recently got an Oculus Rift. Because the current version isn’t consumer-ready, it’s marketed as a developer prototype. As such, Oculus currently include…

During my childhood, The Adventures of Lolo was one of my favorite Nintendo (NES) games. It was a basic top-down puzzle game that had a really good balance of puzzle elements and c…

Click here to check out the project! A couple years ago I had a housemate named Rachad. He was a big fan of the California State Lotto, and he asked me to help him buy lotto ticket…

Important: All the comic artwork below is not my property and is copyright by Paws, Inc. and Jim Davis. I do not claim any copyright what-so-ever, and only wrote the code to random…

Click here to check out the project! Recaptcha used to be really cool. Not only was it the de facto standard for human verification on the web, but it also had a noble goal. Google…

My friend recently reminded me of this Troll project, so I decided to upload it. Back in high school I made a prequel-satire of Microsoft word, including a Clippy parody. Warning: …

Introduction I built the website for Swirls Frozen Dairy and Juice Bar, www.swirlsyogurt.com. The boss had mentioned that he had an extra touch screen display, possibly for a kiosk…

Introduction At the time I wrote this, I was still in High School and Pheonix was one of the most popular games for TI-Calculator handhelds. It was on more models than just the TI-…

Introduction Just like my Worms for TI-89 project, this was inspired by an already existing game that I wanted to re-do. Super Mario Quest described it self as: "The begin-all and …

Introduction Back in the day, Worms World Party was an amazing game, that my friends and I poured hours into. Because I was a TI-Calculator addict, I was pleasantly surprised to fi…

Introduction During lunch break at high school, the computer lab filled with all the geeks that weren't out chattin'-it-up in the courtyard. The popular game to play was Jippii Min…

Introduction I've always loved Physics. Well, maybe that's not true. Ever since taking a class freshman year of high school at least. Before then I was terrified of the math involv…

Introduction I saw a screen saver for Suse linux that basically caused the screen to disintegrate before your eyes. I decided to recreate this effect. But I had another idea: make …

My friend and I want to kick start of my ideas. Ocelotent.com is our site, just a quick wordpress theme. http://ocelotent.com/…

Sandy Stec, who I've written about a couple times before asked me to make her a separate site for her comedy tour, Leaving Milpitas. If you're unaware, Milipitas is a really boring…

A friend of a friend needed a new website for his autobody shop in SF. Check out citytechsf.com…

Sandy Stec is a radio personality and stand up comedian. You should definitely check her out. Anyway, my friend noticed I was getting better at making websites and offered her my s…

My ex-coworker for Cisco was an active member in a wild-west style quick-draw gun club. They have a cool set up in Los Banos, CA, where you can pack a revolver with wax slugs and f…

This is a fun story you'll wanna read... woot.com is known for it's "bag of crap," which was a mystery-surprise bag. woot.com usually sells cool stuff, but occasionally they end up…

I had a roommate who was a lawn-care expert. Besides just cutting the lawn, he knew everything about planting, weeding, watering, and generally caring for lawns. He asked me to mak…

I needed a car, but I didn't exactly have a lot of fluid cash to spend. I came up with a plan. I noticed that a local used-car dealership didn't have a website. Without asking I wh…

Check out http://lolfiction.com/ This was a major fun project. I had just finished my first full stack web project, and for the first time in my life I wrote PHP, MySQL, CSS, AJAX …

Please excuse the obnoxious green background. Although I was young both in my design ability and my web-dev ability when I made this site, I did not chose the background color! But…