While attending a hackathon at Google’s San Francisco office, Chrome’s product manager introduced me to a tool called ngrok. He was using it to demo code running on his laptop from his phone. ngrok instantly gives you a domain for anything running on your local machine. It’s amazing, and I instantly fell in love. Professional … Continue reading Ngrok Rock! A WordPress based API. 

I’ve created many applications where a user would have to enter the IP address of the server. For example, an iOS Netflix remote. You would run the server on your computer, open the iOS app, enter the server’s IP address, then you could control Netflix! The problem is that most people don’t know what an … Continue reading Zerohero – Cross platform zeroconf microservice.

Lull is a desktop application that will mute your computer while Hulu plays ads. I recently rewrote it, this time with Mac and Linux support. Check it out here: https://github.com/octalmage/lull Lull uses RobotJS to read the screen and detect ads. Please let me know if you run into any issues!

I started work on my own web browser. This is something I’ve avoided for as long as possible, because there’s too many, but I guess it’s time. I’ve always loved the way browsers are represented in portfolios. Their job is to showcase the website and stay out of the way. I wanted to recreate that … Continue reading minum

Google Hacks was one of the first apps I created. I was 16 and experimenting with different cross platform solutions. I found RealBASIC and was amazed by the simplicity, it was the only tool that could compile for all platforms from one OS. I had learned how to get music using Google, so I created Google … Continue reading Google Hacks 2.0

We use HipChat at work, and I wanted a way to quickly spam my coworkers with gifs. I found giphy.com and they have an amazing API, so I created Hot Gifs. https://github.com/octalmage/hotgifs With Hot Gifs running, press Cmd+Alt+G and the window pops up. Type a word or phrase, hit enter, then a related gif url is … Continue reading HOT GIF ACTION.

Around Christmas I started working on a new project, RobotJS. RobotJS is a native Node.js module and I’m extremely excited about it. I’m a huge fan of AutoHotkey and I’ve used it for a very long time. AutoHotkey is great for automation and it can do a bunch of things that are very diffucult in … Continue reading Node.js Desktop Automation.

For the last year I’ve been using markdown everyday at work, and I’ve fallen in love with it. I’m not a writer but markdown allows me to easily create good looking documents. Well I wanted a clean simple way to organize ideas using markdown and I found a lot of good apps. Unfortunately they were … Continue reading Markdown note taking.

Recently I needed a clean easy way to watch videos with friends over the internet. I spent a while trying different solutions and nothing worked the way I wanted, so I created it myself! I decided to use Node.js, because realtime. Basically there’s a broadcaster and a viewer. Both have HTML5 video players and they’re … Continue reading Watch videos online with your friends.