The Guide to Color Gradients in Android Studio

Adjusting the background color of your activities and fragments is one of the easiest ways to add flair to your mobile apps. A strong color palette can make a bad app okay and a good app great if applied with artistic tenderness. In this article, I’m going to explore one component of the tender artist’s […]

Saving Sensor Data to Internal Storage in Android

If you read my previous article on accessing sensor data in your Android app, your also probably curious about how you can analyze that data outside of the app. Perhaps you want to look for patterns in the data or track historical changes in a third party app. Whatever your reason is, its clear that […]

No! The CubePro is NOT Obsolete!

Joseph Muller May 18 · 4 min read The CubePro Duo is a beast of a 3D printer — so much so that it almost didn’t fit in my Honda Civic. After some twisting, grunting, and heaving, I gently managed to settle the 94lb tank into the passenger seat and glide home where I was faced with the second challenge […]

Raspberry Pi Mediawiki Hitchhike

I have a scattered brain. So scattered that it’s essence seeps out into my every day life, into my actual organizational techniques, and before I know it, my notes are strewn across 3 small notebooks, a journal, several post-it notes, flashcards, hand drawn diagrams, and a whiteboard. Despite my attempts to herd my ideas and […]

Kaggle Pipeline Hitchhike

The more work I do, the more hikes I take. As I was doing some background Machine Learning research for my Sentiment Analysis hitchhike, I fell into the Kaggle rabbit hole. I started with the Titanic competition and then moved towards the Housing Price competition and before I knew it, I was concatenating detours so […]

Tensorflow Hitchhike

While I was working on an Android mobile application, I stumbled across the Android Developer’s Challenge. The focus of the challenge at the time (November 2019) was how on-device machine learning could help people get things done and even though my app was designed without machine learning features, I figured jamming some artificial intelligence into […]

Thinking Thought

Purpose is a logic driven concept, one that can only be grasped by an entity with the potential to understand nebulous abstractions like reason and meaning. In simple terms, purpose is the “why” behind the “what” and it deals with questions that exist outside the plane of physical material. Objects in and of themselves are […]

Sanguine Me

Pontificating life’s purpose, or the lack thereof, can be a demoralizing practice. No worldly endeavor appears to have eternal ramifications and no eternal endgame seems rewarding enough to offset the suffering required to get there. If you aren’t careful, it’s dangerously easy to fall prey to the pernicious idea that nothing is worth doing. It’s […]

It’s Been done

When I was a kid I loved role playing video games, especially the open world kind where rare items littered the landscape and achievements were unlocked by doing just about anything. The sprawling checklists of things to do and buy and find kept me occupied for hundreds of hours and I would make up ridiculous […]

Infinite Horror

Religions all over the globe imagine an eternal, peaceful existence that follows the one we inhabit now. In Christianity, this eternal resting place devoid of pain and loss is called heaven and millions of the Christian faith mold their everyday behavior to meet the entry qualifications to this domain. They refrain from lying, cheating, stealing, […]