Head of 'Earn' on WordPress.com, deliberate life advocate
Programy, skrypty i inne takie programistyczne ciekawostki
This is sort of a plugin to a great OSX app, Alfred. It adds all notes in Evernote “Snippets” Notebook as a quick-paste snippet in Alfred.
I use both alfred and evernote extensively, so Im quite happy about this one!
Today, it’s been precisely 6 months since I joined Automattic as JavaScript wrangler. All you’ve heard about how awesome this company is in fact an understatement!
It is out of this world!
PS: Working in Silicon Valley company was my Bucketlist #26
LearnMinder is a SmartPhone app that blocks internet access until a homework / coding challenge is solved.
It is intended to be installed on a child’s smartphone. Parent can set up a topic that the child needs to practice. Every time the child wants to play or browse the Internet, she/he has to first solve a challenge custom tailored to current skill level. When the challenge is solved – child can use the Internet again.
The whole challenge is presented in a narrative that “the Internet is broken” and child needs to fix a bug in the software to use it. In the process, it learns, that all services it enjoys using are created by someone, maintained constantly and it is not magical black box.
Day by day, challenge by challenge the child gets more comfortable in thinking how the websites / services / games are designed and that sometimes it’s actually more fun to create these products than to use them.
This application will be integrated with code.org and released under Open Source license.
I decided to re-write it in React Native to iron out some kinks.
In 2015 I had a pleasure to participate in EUhackathon. It was a splendid 2-day hackathon held in Brussels with a theme
Tools to help teach kids digital skills
During this event I created “Interfixer“, which I’m now rebranding as “LearnMinder”
During presentations, along with a fully functioning demo, I presented:
This was a huge surprise for me, but the Jury decided that my application was best, and as a single participants, I won the 2015 edition of EU Hackathon 🙂 (You can read more here)
Reactive compass is a navigation controller for keyboard navigation based systems. Initially developed for Smart TV and embedded devices utilizing IR Remote.
Firenet is a Siri-controlled SmartHome installation using $4 ESP8266 modules and free Firebase account
Installation instruction, screenshots, information and code on GitHub
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This actually was on my dream list for a while and it’s a #184 in my bucketlist
swimR is a an that will revolutionize your swimming training. You just need to attach a beacon to your swimming glasses and swimR will gather data about your progress, compares it with previous achievements and if you want it – will synchronise with endomondo and runKeeper.
You will never again forget how many laps you did!
swimR was conceived on Hackwaw3 – hackathon organized in Copernicus Center of Science in Warsaw, Poland. The topic was quantified self.
Idea is simple – we connect the phone to Bluetooth 4.0 beacon – in this particular case a borrowed Estimote beacon. The beacon – the size of an MP3 player – we attach to our swimming goggles. Then we swim.
The phone, left at the bank – is counting the lapses, speed and distance. We can see which distances we performed better, which worse. We can export data and make decisions based on facts.
This is how it looks in iPad:
The first day we wanted to check how our contraption behaves in water. Copernicus is a science center, so there’s a water track. Unfortunately, 2.4 Ghz does not penetrate water very well.
We attempt to solve this by gathering measurements once the swimmer comes out for air
This is how our presentation looked like 🙂
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