{"id":2,"date":"2016-09-26T21:19:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-08-31T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T21:19:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Saccade.com<\/p>\n<h3>What?<\/h3>\n<p>Online since mid-2003 or so, Saccade.com is the repository for <a href=\"http:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/projects\/\">projects<\/a> (mostly electronics) I&#8217;ve developed over the years. \u00a0During the 2000&#8217;s, many of these were contest entries that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saccade.com\/writing\/projects\/CuriLights\/index.html\">won<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saccade.com\/writing\/projects\/Weasure\/Weasure.html\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saccade.com\/writing\/projects\/NecTilt\/Tilt.html\">prizes<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also published some old <a href=\"http:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/computer-graphics-research-papers-and-patents\/\">computer graphics papers<\/a> here. \u00a0I&#8217;ve recently started 3D modelling and printing projects and will publish those here as well.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, I&#8217;m re-launching it in blog format, although the original content is still around as static pages. Some material is also cross-posted to places like Medium and Hackaday.io (I maintain my own copies here in case those sites begin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com\/\"><em>Their Incredible Journey<\/em><\/a> someday.) \u00a0If you\u00a0<em>really<\/em> want to see the old version of the site, it&#8217;s <a href=\"\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Who?<\/h3>\n<p>By day I&#8217;m a senior software developer. \u00a0I&#8217;m also on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isonno\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Sa-<em>what?<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>A\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saccade\">saccade<\/a><\/em> refers to the rapid, jerking movement your eye makes when reading or scanning the horizon. \u00a0It&#8217;s pronounced sa-KAHD. \u00a0I was hacking on panorama software around the time I acquired the domain, and found the concept fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Avatar<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ThreeBurrPuzzle.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-372\" style=\"width:326px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ThreeBurrPuzzle.png 596w, https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ThreeBurrPuzzle-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I use the <a href=\"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-three-piece-burr-puzzle\/\">burr puzzle<\/a> as an avatar on various social media platforms. I switched over to this everywhere after reading Kashmir Hill&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/691288\/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill\/\">Your Face Belongs to Us<\/a><\/em>. No need to feed my face to the beast. Of the images I&#8217;ve created over the years, it reads the best as a tiny icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Saccade.com What? Online since mid-2003 or so, Saccade.com is the repository for projects (mostly electronics) I&#8217;ve developed over the years. \u00a0During the 2000&#8217;s, many of these were contest entries that won several prizes. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also published some old computer graphics papers here. \u00a0I&#8217;ve recently started 3D modelling and printing projects and will publish <a href=\"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/about\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","author-jp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saccade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}