Visualizing My Energy Usage
Exploring my energy usage using my solar system’s API
Blog Posts
Blog Posts
Occasionally I write things. Here’s a chronological list.
2024
2021
Playing With Time
Time-lapse videos of my home projects
Continuous Integration on Github Pages and Jekyll
How I ensure the quality of this website
Learning Logic Puzzles
Trying to actually get good at logic puzzles
2020
Building a Ray Tracer from Scratch, #1: First Light
Building a photo-realistic ray tracer from scratch
The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge: First 20 Breads
Baking every bread in a textbook
Building a Microgame: You Killed a Bear
Building out a little microgame
My Offensive Security Wireless Professional Certification Review
Hacking wifi for fun and no profit
2019
Storytelling With Pantone Colors
Writing a story using only the names of Pantone colors
2017
P2P Learning
Getting interviewed about learning
Becoming a US Citizen
On March 27th I became a US citizen
Steve Reich Is Playing Zelda
My first minimalist classical music / 80’s computer game mashup
2015
NFL Height and Weight Data Release
Making public the data I used for the height-weight charts
Introducing statsninja.io
My personalized baseball statistics website
SELinux For Mere Mortals
A very short guide to SELinux
Divvy Stories
Building an app that tells stories
Big Data for Front End Developers
Teaching a Big Data for frontend developers class
Docker in Production: Reality, Not Hype
Notes from a DevOps meetup
Perfection is the Enemy
This website looks kinda different now
2014
Data Visualization Projects
Some cool data projects I’ve recently completed
The Weights of Over 16,000 NFL Players
A visual exploration of the weights of over 16,000 NFL players
The Relative Age Effect in Pro-Sports
An exploration of the birth dates of professional athletes
Deadfish in FORTRAN
Implementing another pointless programming language.
2013
Python Fragments #1: A Class With Immutable Attributes
Building a python class with unchangable attributes
Farewell to Astronomy
Why I quit my career as an astrophysicist
The height and weight of every active football player
Visualization of the height and weight of every NFL player
Python New-Style String Formatting Reference
Cheatsheet for Python new-style string formatting
The Naive Bayes Classifier
A derivation of the naive Bayes classifier
A History of Matrix Multiplication
The way that matrix multiplication got faster is unbelievable
Social Network Analysis
Visualizing your social network
Paper Analytics I. Word Clouds for All of my First Author Papers
Word clouds for all of my first author papers
The Hubble Parameter: A Data Visualization Project
An interactive visualization of measurements of the Hubble constant
Deadfish~ in Python
Implementing a joke programming language in Python
Music for Programmers
Music I love to code to
Infrared Photography
Building an IR camera from pieces around the house