$ Updates and How I learned to stop worrying and love the Futex abstraction
So, it’s been a while. Here’s some of the stuff that’s been going on lately:
-
My team won a prize from Firebase at MHacks for our project, Jot. Jot is a platform to crowd-source authoring of novels, which lets you vote on which author’s content best fits the book at any given time. It’s a pretty cool hack, and I hope to finish it with my team some day. The application is listed here.
-
At Boilermake this past weekend, my team and I won the prize from Paypal/Venmo/Braintree for best use of their API. We created a Pebble application called Paybble(get it? Pay[Pal]+[Pe]bble) that lets you send money directly to contacts from your phone’s contact list. It requires a companion application for iOS, too. After that, it sends you and whomever you just paid, notifiying you of the transaction! Read more at the application’s ChallengePost page!
-
As part of research, we’ve been trying to add Futex primitives to MicroVM within userspace and this has proved to be a challenge. To share papers and other such information, my co-worker has created a document “How I learned to stop worrying and love the Futex abstraction” in a blatant parody of Stanley Kubrick’s master film. Hopefully this problem gets solved soon!
Thanks for reading!
-V