Personal bloghttps://your-blog.pages.dev/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2026-01-15-hello-astro/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2026-01-15-hello-astro/Migrating from Next.js to AstroThu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2025-04-29-verifying-git-branch-histories/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2025-04-29-verifying-git-branch-histories/Rebuilding and checking a git branchTue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2025-04-01-oblique-strategies-in-the-terminal/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2025-04-01-oblique-strategies-in-the-terminal/Building a terminal splashscreen with Brian Eno's Oblique StrategiesTue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-12-09-weekly-note/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-12-09-weekly-note/Rebuilding my Raspberry Pi, Pi-Hole, and PADD configuration from scratch.Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-11-11-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-11-11-weekly-update/Sabbatical Week 20 - Python structural pattern matchin and package logging, uv in Docker, inverse reinforcement learning, and Cantor's theory of cardinalityMon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-10-07-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-10-07-weekly-update/Sabbatical Week 15 - General metric spaces, Levenshtein, Hamming, and Jaccard distances plus links on Python 3.13, inline functions, and The MANIACMon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-30-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-30-weekly-update/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.Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-23-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-23-weekly-update/Sabbatical Week 13 - python syntax, Obsidian dataview, LazyVim configs, and python notebooksMon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-09-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-09-weekly-update/Sabbatical Week 11 - evergreen notes, LLMs, and programming tasteMon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-06-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-09-06-weekly-update/Sabbatial Week 10 - structured outputs for LLMs and proving the binomial theoremFri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-08-30-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-08-30-weekly-update/Sabbatical Week 8 - some web scraping and prompt engineeringFri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-08-23-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-08-23-weekly-update/Sabbatical Week 7 - Some in-person events plus more proofs, LeetCode, and DuckDBFri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-08-16-weekly-update/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-08-16-weekly-update/Week 6 of my sabbatical - math proofs, LeetCode, DuckDB, and networkingFri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-06-20-migrating-github-blog-posts/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-06-20-migrating-github-blog-posts/Porting some old posts over from 2014-2017Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-05-01-fumbling-into-floats/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-05-01-fumbling-into-floats/Down a rabbit hole of floating point numbersSat, 04 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-01-24-the-data-chief-podcast-episode/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2024-01-24-the-data-chief-podcast-episode/Some thoughts on appearing on a professionally produced podcastWed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-12-08-practicing-jazz-with-the-command-line/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-12-08-practicing-jazz-with-the-command-line/Using linux command line tools for jazz ear trainingFri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-10-01-notes-on-chapter-1-and-2-of-what-are-embeddings/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-10-01-notes-on-chapter-1-and-2-of-what-are-embeddings/Notes on Chapter 1 and 2 of Vicki Boykis's "What Are Embeddings" paperSun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-09-23-finite-dimensional-vector-spaces-chapter-1-problem-2c/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-09-23-finite-dimensional-vector-spaces-chapter-1-problem-2c/Working through problem 2(c) from chapter 1 of Halmos's "Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces"Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-08-12-the-best-math-advice-i-ever-got/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-08-12-the-best-math-advice-i-ever-got/On turning hieroglyphics into picturesSat, 12 Aug 2023 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-07-12-hello-manjaro/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-07-12-hello-manjaro/First steps with ArchWed, 12 Jul 2023 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-05-21-hello-latex/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-05-21-hello-latex/Playing around with LaTeX formuals for funMon, 22 May 2023 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-01-16-talking-about-large-language-models/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-01-16-talking-about-large-language-models/Notes on Murray Shanahan's "Talking About Larger Language Models"Mon, 16 Jan 2023 06:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-01-01-i-love-computers/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-01-01-i-love-computers/Working on computers for fun ... and not for profitSun, 01 Jan 2023 06:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-01-07-one-day-of-advent-of-code/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2023-01-07-one-day-of-advent-of-code/Working on Advent of Code and learning to take only what you need from somethingSun, 01 Jan 2023 06:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-10-24-coconut-programming-language/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-10-24-coconut-programming-language/A functional programming language that compiles to PythonMon, 24 Oct 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-17-where-the-water-goes/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-17-where-the-water-goes/Life and death along the Colorado RiverSat, 17 Sep 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-06-the-cryatal-programming-language/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-06-the-cryatal-programming-language/A quick peek at at the Crystal programming languageTue, 06 Sep 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-05-sqlite-and-duckdb/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-05-sqlite-and-duckdb/Diving into a recent paper on running OLAP workloads on my favorite databaseMon, 05 Sep 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-01-hello-darkness/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-01-hello-darkness/My old Friend ...Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-01-hello-world/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2022-09-01-hello-world/First Post!Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-05-10-intro-to-regex/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-05-10-intro-to-regex/A presentation on using Regex for analystsWed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-03-17-what-the-fck-is-the-internet-vol-1/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-03-17-what-the-fck-is-the-internet-vol-1/A short presentation about how data is encoded over networksFri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-03-15-python_special_methods/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-03-15-python_special_methods/Exploring Python's build-in methodsWed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-02-25-setting-up-pelican-with-github-pages/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-02-25-setting-up-pelican-with-github-pages/Obligatory metapost on setting up a blogSat, 25 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-02-17-exploring-pythons-in-operator/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2017-02-17-exploring-pythons-in-operator/Digging into how the in operator worksFri, 17 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-04-08-writing-a-fits-file-bigger-than-your-memory/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-04-08-writing-a-fits-file-bigger-than-your-memory/Getting in the weeds with the FITS file formatTue, 08 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-04-07-numpy-arrays-and-sql/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-04-07-numpy-arrays-and-sql/Binary encoding in SQL for NumPy objectsMon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-01-30-2d-guassian-fitting-with-agpy/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-01-30-2d-guassian-fitting-with-agpy/Fitting 2 dimensionaly Gaussians with a small open source packageThu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-01-19-faster-file-checking-with-sets/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-01-19-faster-file-checking-with-sets/Using set membership to skip disk readsSun, 19 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-01-16-SASP-Internship-Ad/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2014-01-16-SASP-Internship-Ad/Call for submissions for my internship opportunity at STScIThu, 16 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-12-19-guilty-as-charged/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-12-19-guilty-as-charged/Just a little git humorThu, 19 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-12-10-a-basic-automation-setup-2/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-12-10-a-basic-automation-setup-2/Part 2 of a automation pipeline for astronomy tasksTue, 10 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-12-04-that-time-i-made-a-metaclass/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-12-04-that-time-i-made-a-metaclass/I made a metaclass in Python (but should I have?)Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-24-the-joy-of-screen/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-24-the-joy-of-screen/Using the screen command line untility to manage remote sessionsSun, 24 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-23-a-basic-automation-setup/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-23-a-basic-automation-setup/A barebones automation setup for astronomy pipelinesSat, 23 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-21-inconclusive-data/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-21-inconclusive-data/Error bars change the interpretation of my stellar PSF projectThu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-20-the-first-thousand-psfs/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-20-the-first-thousand-psfs/Plotting one thousand stellar PSFsWed, 20 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-18-counting-to-10-million-stars/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-18-counting-to-10-million-stars/Working with large datasets of stellar PSFsMon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-18-mtpipeline-ddrf/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-18-mtpipeline-ddrf/My reaseach grant proposal for a Hubble Space Telescope moving target pipelineMon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-17-the-trouble-with-tech-blogs/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2013-11-17-the-trouble-with-tech-blogs/Starting a Pelican-based GitHub blogSun, 17 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/all-other-languages-were-for-some-reason-inferior/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/all-other-languages-were-for-some-reason-inferior/All other languages were for some reason inferior, and as a Python programmer, I was the member of an elite cabal of superhuman...Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:14:48 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2012-djangocon-slides/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/2012-djangocon-slides/2012 DjangoCon SlidesThu, 06 Sep 2012 16:34:22 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/overly-honest-commenting-on-hitting-accept-on-a/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/overly-honest-commenting-on-hitting-accept-on-a/Overly honest commenting on hitting 'accept' on a GitHub pull request for the first time.Sun, 02 Sep 2012 18:28:54 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/making-sure-we-stay-at-the-forefront-of-space/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/making-sure-we-stay-at-the-forefront-of-space/Making sure we stay at the forefront of space exploration is a big priority for my administration. The passing of Neil Armstrong...Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:09:26 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/the-academic-system-does-not-respect/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/the-academic-system-does-not-respect/The academic system does not respect practitioners’ knowledge (or timescales). Practitioners don’t understand that computer...Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:03:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/im-on-site-today-at-southern-illinois-university/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/im-on-site-today-at-southern-illinois-university/I'm on-site today at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville working on Space Telescope's collaboration with...Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:28:09 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/on-leaving-academia-ars-experientia/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/on-leaving-academia-ars-experientia/On Leaving Academia « Ars ExperientiaTue, 24 Jul 2012 17:54:26 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/benchmarking-python-sets-comprehensions-and/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/benchmarking-python-sets-comprehensions-and/Benchmarking Python Sets, Comprehensions, and LoopsSat, 14 Jul 2012 14:17:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/pain-with-the-windows-command-prompt/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/pain-with-the-windows-command-prompt/Pain with the Windows Command PromptWed, 04 Jul 2012 16:54:06 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/benchmarking-the-python-sqlite3-connection/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/benchmarking-the-python-sqlite3-connection/Benchmarking the Python SQLite3 ConnectionWed, 04 Jul 2012 16:51:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/hipster-passwords/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/hipster-passwords/Hipster PasswordsWed, 04 Jul 2012 16:37:16 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/finding-the-right-plot-i-really-like-data/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/finding-the-right-plot-i-really-like-data/_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...Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:31:13 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/just-registered-for-scipy2012-this-will-be-my/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/just-registered-for-scipy2012-this-will-be-my/Just registered for [SciPy2012](http://conference.scipy.org/). This will be my first programming conference of any kind. I'm all...Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:39:25 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/i-just-wanted-to-share-a-quick-and-dirty/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/i-just-wanted-to-share-a-quick-and-dirty/I just wanted to share a quick and dirty visualization I made to analyze some an processing pipeline I'm working on. What...Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:11:58 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/im-excited-i-finally-have-a-reason-to-learn/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/im-excited-i-finally-have-a-reason-to-learn/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,...Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:33:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/widget-factory-vs-film-crew-organizational-models/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/widget-factory-vs-film-crew-organizational-models/Widget Factory vs Film Crew Organizational ModelsWed, 20 Jun 2012 14:58:18 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/top-30-most-popular-stolen-linkedin-passwords/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/top-30-most-popular-stolen-linkedin-passwords/Top 30 Most Popular Stolen LinkedIn PasswordsSat, 09 Jun 2012 09:30:42 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/you-need-to-do-something-spectacular-before-anyone/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/you-need-to-do-something-spectacular-before-anyone/You need to do something spectacular before anyone knows you;re doing anything at all.Wed, 30 May 2012 11:47:03 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/my-first-list-comprehension/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/my-first-list-comprehension/My First List ComprehensionWed, 02 May 2012 13:50:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/just-had-the-same-thought-this-morning-via/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/just-had-the-same-thought-this-morning-via/Just had the same thought this morning. (via Yahoo's genius content strategy - The Oatmeal)Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:11:28 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/sure-i-trust-google-to-index-the-contents-of-all/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/sure-i-trust-google-to-index-the-contents-of-all/Sure, I trust Google to index the contents of all my files. Why not?Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:33:38 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/ls-in-the-windows-command-prompt/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/ls-in-the-windows-command-prompt/`ls` in the Windows Command PromptFri, 13 Apr 2012 15:59:51 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/update-041212/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/update-041212/Update 04/12/12Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:25:56 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/in-december-2006-palm-ceo-ed-colligan-summarily/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/in-december-2006-palm-ceo-ed-colligan-summarily/In December 2006, Palm CEO Ed Colligan summarily dismissed the idea that a traditional personal computing company could compete...Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:35:25 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/rss-in-chrome/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/rss-in-chrome/RSS in ChromeMon, 09 Apr 2012 20:32:29 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/paying-bills-online/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/paying-bills-online/Paying Bills OnlineMon, 09 Apr 2012 11:59:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/inbox-zero/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/inbox-zero/Inbox ZeroSun, 08 Apr 2012 22:41:43 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/email-is-not-a-messaging-protocol-its-a-to-do/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/email-is-not-a-messaging-protocol-its-a-to-do/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...Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:45:58 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/the-greedy-algorithm/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/the-greedy-algorithm/The Greedy AlgorithmSun, 08 Apr 2012 21:07:00 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/getting-cygwin-to-see-my-local-file-system/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/getting-cygwin-to-see-my-local-file-system/Getting Cygwin to see my local file system.Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:41:09 GMThttps://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/on-the-other-side-of-the-screen-it-all-looks-so/https://your-blog.pages.dev/posts/on-the-other-side-of-the-screen-it-all-looks-so/On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:26:25 GMT