I'm a 21 year old Berkeley student on indefinite leave.
I love to build, to create, and to be challenged.
I yearn to be challenged.
And not just a can you figure out x or
how fast can you do y or
solve z challenge,

but a

webgl halo 1
html5 audio music visualizer
offline social network
challenge.

• Zing Cluster (source) Zing connects any client and server - in any language - using realtime technology. It will soon power everything from multiplayer games, to chat, to analytics. It is web 4.0.
• HaloGL (current) (source) A Three.js, Backbone, gevent-socketio powered Halo 1 clone for Chrome
• Clovermap My past startup which helped you do fun things with people you like. It ran on a socket.io django engine that powered the realtime chat and locations for the web and android version of the site. More words won't do it justice.
• 24-hour countdown To keep myself from procrastinating any further, I put together this dead simple 24-hour timer that counts down the second you visit it. It got featured on lifehacker!
• Html5visualizer (source) html5 audio visualizer built on nodejs and nowjs. Upload any song and play it in a unique room while the visualizer renders the pulses (live) to the music. Complete with chat rooms and stream of uploads. Several day hack.
• Amazon Instant find any product sold by amazon within a few seconds. One day hack.
• Hack captive portals basically http over dns. This lets you get free internet from airbears, starbucks, airports: anything with a captive portal (where it asks you to login). It works by exploiting these portals which redirect all http requests to themselves, but allow dns requests. One http => dns encapsulator and a proxy dns => http server later, and you've got internet.

eugene.baumstein@gmail