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Adding 5 posts from my old Substack newsletter to the blog.

Building a personal RSS reader on the Cloudflare developer platform.

Migrating from Next.js to Astro

Rebuilding and checking a git branch

Building a terminal splashscreen with Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies

Rebuilding my Raspberry Pi, Pi-Hole, and PADD configuration from scratch.

Sabbatical Week 20 - Python structural pattern matchin and package logging, uv in Docker, inverse reinforcement learning, and Cantor's theory of cardinality

Sabbatical Week 15 - General metric spaces, Levenshtein, Hamming, and Jaccard distances plus links on Python 3.13, inline functions, and The MANIAC

Sabbatical Week 14 - Removing sensitive content from your git history, framework and title format updates for the blog, and new tools I've started using over the last 3 months.

Sabbatical Week 13 - python syntax, Obsidian dataview, LazyVim configs, and python notebooks

Sabbatical Week 11 - evergreen notes, LLMs, and programming taste

Sabbatial Week 10 - structured outputs for LLMs and proving the binomial theorem

Sabbatical Week 8 - some web scraping and prompt engineering

Sabbatical Week 7 - Some in-person events plus more proofs, LeetCode, and DuckDB

Week 6 of my sabbatical - math proofs, LeetCode, DuckDB, and networking

Porting some old posts over from 2014-2017

Down a rabbit hole of floating point numbers

Some thoughts on appearing on a professionally produced podcast

Using linux command line tools for jazz ear training

Notes on Chapter 1 and 2 of Vicki Boykis's "What Are Embeddings" paper

Working through problem 2(c) from chapter 1 of Halmos's "Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces"

On turning hieroglyphics into pictures

First steps with Arch

Playing around with LaTeX formuals for fun

Notes on Murray Shanahan's "Talking About Larger Language Models"

Working on computers for fun ... and not for profit

Working on Advent of Code and learning to take only what you need from something

A functional programming language that compiles to Python

Life and death along the Colorado River

A quick peek at at the Crystal programming language

Diving into a recent paper on running OLAP workloads on my favorite database

My old Friend ...

First Post!

Hello again!

For fun and productivity!

I could probably have tried all these tools in the time it took me to write this ...

I tried to write a short technical article and it took me 6 weeks

Well, the good news is I didn't start a podcast ...

A presentation on using Regex for analysts

A short presentation about how data is encoded over networks

Exploring Python's build-in methods

Obligatory metapost on setting up a blog

Digging into how the in operator works

Getting in the weeds with the FITS file format

Binary encoding in SQL for NumPy objects

Fitting 2 dimensionaly Gaussians with a small open source package

Using set membership to skip disk reads

Call for submissions for my internship opportunity at STScI

Just a little git humor

Part 2 of a automation pipeline for astronomy tasks

I made a metaclass in Python (but should I have?)

Using the screen command line untility to manage remote sessions

A barebones automation setup for astronomy pipelines

Error bars change the interpretation of my stellar PSF project

Plotting one thousand stellar PSFs

Working with large datasets of stellar PSFs

My reaseach grant proposal for a Hubble Space Telescope moving target pipeline

Starting a Pelican-based GitHub blog

All other languages were for some reason inferior, and as a Python programmer, I was the member of an elite cabal of superhuman...

2012 DjangoCon Slides

Overly honest commenting on hitting 'accept' on a GitHub pull request for the first time.

Making sure we stay at the forefront of space exploration is a big priority for my administration. The passing of Neil Armstrong...

The academic system does not respect practitioners’ knowledge (or timescales). Practitioners don’t understand that computer...

I'm on-site today at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville working on Space Telescope's collaboration with...

On Leaving Academia « Ars Experientia

Benchmarking Python Sets, Comprehensions, and Loops

Pain with the Windows Command Prompt

Benchmarking the Python SQLite3 Connection

Hipster Passwords

_Finding the Right Plot_ I really like data visualization, even if I can't claim to be any an expert at it. Today I wanted to...

Just registered for [SciPy2012](http://conference.scipy.org/). This will be my first programming conference of any kind. I'm all...

I just wanted to share a quick and dirty visualization I made to analyze some an processing pipeline I'm working on. What...

I'm excited I finally have a reason to learn JavaScript at work. The first thing, per the suggestion of my friend who does UX,...

Widget Factory vs Film Crew Organizational Models

Top 30 Most Popular Stolen LinkedIn Passwords

You need to do something spectacular before anyone knows you;re doing anything at all.

My First List Comprehension

Just had the same thought this morning. (via Yahoo's genius content strategy - The Oatmeal)

Sure, I trust Google to index the contents of all my files. Why not?

`ls` in the Windows Command Prompt

Update 04/12/12

In December 2006, Palm CEO Ed Colligan summarily dismissed the idea that a traditional personal computing company could compete...

RSS in Chrome

Paying Bills Online

Inbox Zero

Email is not a messaging protocol, it’s a to-do list, right? Or at least my inbox is a to-do list and email is the protocol for...

The Greedy Algorithm

Getting Cygwin to see my local file system.

On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.