development

Using uv in Emacs

Writing an Elisp function to utilize uv within my Emacs setup

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web-development

Using Pulumi with Hetzner

Testing out using Pulumi with Hetzner Cloud to manage a static site.

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data-viz

Visualizing the Blue Sky Firehose

Playing around with the Blue Sky API to visualization word and hashtag frequency.

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open-source

Simple Map Dashboards with Observable Framework

Using Observable Framework, Python, Tippecanoe, and Protomaps to build an ETL pipeline for a mapping dashboard

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open-source

The Bus Factor

Using a Bus (aka Truck) Factor methodology to assess this metric on 133 open source projects 8 years after the initial assessment.

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What's in a conference?

How conferences vary across disciplines and aims, based on my personal experience

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meta

Thwarted for the last time!

Why I gave up Gatsby and moved to Observable Framework, and what it took to do so.

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development

Building OSS Map Apps With Observable Framework

Testing out Observable Framework to map Boston's open data.

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development

Making 3D Hexplots With Maplibre

Using D3-Hexbin to Generate GeoJSONs for Maplibre

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development

Debugging Emacs

I broke my Emacs. How I fixed it!

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development

How I Org

My personal config for using org-mode to run my life.

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long-form

Do Something; Brag About It

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data-visualization

Mapping Los Angeles' Soft-Story Retrofit Program

Examining the success of the Los Angeles Soft-Story Retrofit Program through interactive mapping and data visualization

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hacks

Making a Bloom Filter Keyboard

Turning a Keyboardio Model 100 into a Bloom filter test status indicator with Shapr

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hacks

Adapting a Bloom Filter to Rust

Adapting a Haskell-based bloom filter to Rust for an Adafruit neotrellis test indicator

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data-visualization

Visualizing EC3's EPD Database

How I created an interactive circle packing plot of the currently available EPD data in the EC3 database

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career-advice

From Structural to Software

What the interview process looks like for transitioning from structural engineering to software development in 2022.

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development

Prototyping Web Applications With Speckle

Bootstrapping a small web application for evaluating an IFC model with Speckle and EC3.

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long-form

A Long Overdue Year in Review

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long-form

Is the Structural Engineering Profession Growing?

Examining public licensure data for structural engineers to determine if my perceptions of growth in the structural engineering field are accurate.

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long-form

Adventures in Cold Emailing (and a Bit of Shameless Self-Promotion)

My experience so far in cold emailing and promoting a personal project for a field (data visualization / data journalism) in which I have no connections.

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programming

Building Bridge.watch

How I built Bridge.watch from scratch

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programming

Building IfcOpenShell on MacOS

How I got IfcOpenShell to build on my Mac without resorting to Macports or Conda

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programming

Dynamic Menu Creation in Blender

How to generate menus in Blender 2.91 from a JSON file

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long-form

Why Structural Engineers Use Excel

Why we use Excel, why it's bad, and how I think we can change it.

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long-form

Recurse Center - Then and Now

Mid-batch check-in and perspective on in-person vs. remote Recurse Center.

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long-form

Why I Left Structural Engineering

Trying not to be too melodramatic.

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long-form

A Year of Professional Development - Pandemic Edition

The cost of professional development for a structural engineer during a pandemic. Itemized for better or for worse.

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hacks

Tinky Care

Larger productivity hardware hack with Inky Impression.

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long-form

Why I Hate Jargon

I tried to come up with a pithier title, but sometimes being direct is best.

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development

Further Adventures in Cython Profiling

How to get py-spy up and running for a Cython project on a Mac.

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development

Performance Comparison Across Three Languages

Messing around with profiling in C++, C#, and Cython for comparing algorithm implementations.

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development

Dotnet Development in Emacs

Emacs snippets for developing C# projects. I don't like Visual Studio much.

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development

Visualizing Geometry in Hypar

Experimenting with Hypar's cloud based execution of C# programs for AEC development.

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hacks

Building a Tiny Pomodoro Timer

Small productivity hardware hack with InkypHAT.

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long-form

RET-My Time at the Recurse Center

Return Statement for my 12 weeks at the Recurse Center in NYC.

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long-form

A Year of Professional Development

The cost of professional development for an early stage structural engineer. Itemized for better or for worse.

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long-form

My Parents Still Don't Understand What I Do

A brief and sarcastic introduction to the career of structural engineering with lamentations about the quality of museum exhibits.

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development

WiMLDS/PyLadies Scikit-Learn Open Source Sprint

Reflection on my first open source sprint with the NYC PyLadies.

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