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I'm JWC, an amateur programmer, web designer, hacker, MIT student, and general electronics enthusiast. This site is a repository for my hardware and software projects.
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Photos from Memorial Dr.Today was the first warm day in quite a while here in Cambridge, so I decided to go out (*gasp!*) and walk along Memorial Drive and shoot a few pictures with my camera.
For some pictures, I used my Tiffen Sky filter (blocks UV). On others, I used my polarizing filter (also from Tiffen) to get bluer skies. On some, I used both, but the vignetting was particularly bad… I have to zoom in quite a bit (~3x) to prevent it, or I can just crop the picture later.
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For some reason, I’ve been using 1024-bit DSA keys to sign my mail. It generally suggested that keys of at least 2048-bits be used for good security, so I have revoked the three keys I have been using (one for each email address) in favor of a single 3072-bit DSA/ElGamal key, which I will use [...]
Throughout this past semester, I was continually impressed by the benefits of powernapping. However, unfortunately, I’m one of those people who shut off their alarms and go back to sleep all the time. So, my 20-minute powernaps became full nights’ rests. Normally, I wouldn’t mind that, but it made things very difficult when I had [...]
… but you may have already figured that out.
A Day in the Life of an MIT Student 2009
MIT’s yearbook club, Technique, sponsors a fun little event every year called ADITL — “A Day in the Life” (MIT does everything in acronyms and numbers, remember?). Basically, the group invites students to bring their cameras around from 12am Thursday, September 24 to following midnight. The goal: take pictures of the things you typically do [...]
Dotman – A Dotfile Config Manager
Some time ago, I started to get annoyed at the bothersome task of copying configuration files between my desktop, laptop, and remote environments. First of all, copying the configs typically involved a lot of repetitive scp’s. The second annoyance is a little worse: some of my dotfiles need a few special settings that are [...]