Laptop Sticker Chaos

The job has been stressful. I’ve been taking a few things too seriously. I visted...

Jul 01, 2016  - Tags:  # tech 

Magic Mirror Part 1

The software display of my Magic Mirror, with custom widgets. With a number of other...

Jun 12, 2016  - Tags:  # nodejs  # electron  # diy  # maker 

Detecting Geo-Temporal Events with Elasticsearch Pipeline Aggregations

Above: A temporal prediction of a one dimensional metric in Timelion. Worth noting, this talk...

May 03, 2016  - Tags:  # elasticsearch  # bikeshare  # washington_dcanomaly_detection 

Optics: Pulling Google Spreadsheet and Salesforce.com data into Elasticsearch

Above: The basic architecture of what I build as part of this blogpost. I’m not...

Apr 03, 2016  - Tags:  # projects  # optics  # python  # elasticsearch 

Quantified Self: Week three progress and real time beer events using Untappd

Untappd beer data turned out to be very easy to add to my quantified self...

Jan 16, 2016  - Tags:  # projects  # untappd  # quantified-self 

Quantified Self: Week two progress and 'Near Real-Time' Fitibit activity

I’m about a week into quantified self tracking. At this point my IFTTT and Zapier...

Jan 09, 2016  - Tags:  # projects  # quantified-self 

Quantified Self: IFTTT, Zapier, and Elasticsearch

As a new years resolution I’m embarking on a Quantified Self project. It is known...

Jan 03, 2016  - Tags:  # tech  # iot  # projects  # quantified-self  # elasticsearch 

Pulling and Splitting live XML with Logstash

As someone who demos Elasticsearch and Kibana quite a bit, the new “http_poller” input to...

Aug 26, 2015  - Tags:  # tech  # logstash  # XML  # elasticsearch