Buy and Hold 31 Cryptocurrencies for 365 Days Series
What would happen if you bought 30 crypto currencies and held them for 365 days? Follow along every week!
Download large files from Google Drive via curl
If you need to download a large (> 40 mB) file off of Google Drive via wget or curl you're going to have a bad time. Google Drive likes to scan files for viruses before…
Sending pgp/mime emails via Mailgun
I recently had the need to send signed, encrypted email via Mailgun for a project. Unfortunately the documentation for signing and sending pgp/mime emails via Mailgun is pretty sparse. I ended up combining pgp-builder and mailgun-js as a quick solution.…
Project - Arduino Scavenger Hunt (2017)
In early 2017 I was on the planning committee for the PotashCorp IT departments' yearly team building event. The event was held at the University of Saskatchewan, and included speakers, tours, and other activities focused…
Project - Gameboy Retro Pi (2016)
My first Retro Pi project, which involved gutting an original nintendo system and turning it into a NES/Super Nintendo/Gameboy/Sega Genesis console, was a ton of fun. After building 3 consoles, our itch…
Project - NES Raspberry PI Retrofit (2014)
I received my first gaming system, a Nintendo Entertainment System, on Christmas Day, 1991. I firmly believe that my vague memories of unboxing it and connecting it to our large tube television in the basemnet…
Project - Cell Phone Car Starter (2010)
Background In January of 2010 I came across an article on hackaday.com where the author complained that his remote car starter suffered from extremely poor range. If he stood within 10 or 15 feet…
What would happen if you bought 30 cryptocurrencies and held them for 365 days?
If you bought on January 1st, 2017, you'd make a boat load of money that's what would happen. I took the closing value of the top 30 cryptocurrencies by market cap on HitBTC as of…
My First 19 Bitcoins
I first heard about Bitcoin in mid-2010 when a man by the name of Laszlo Hanyecz convinced someone to accept 10,000 bitcoins (worth $42 million USD today) in exchange for two Domino's pizzas. It…