A collection of thoughts and experiments that at one point occupied my time, some still do. These are the things happening in my idle cycles.
Being veritably snowed in today I thought I might circle back through the publicly available bike-share data for the city of Pittsburgh and see if there was anything of interest to be gleaned.
read more...As I continue to experiment and refine my own writing setup I have recently been trying out a quirky system not so different from the original setup for this weblog.
read more...I was browsing through public bike-share data for the city of Pittsburgh and thinking about interesting ways of slicing and dicing through it. As a part of that I fell into a rabbit hole of previously unexplored SQLite novelties.
read more...I just sent a patch out and thought I might try a thorough breakdown of not just the how but the why as well. I've been interested in writing up something like this as a demonstration of how I like working and documenting my work.
read more...I've been using sourcehut more regularly to the point that I have a pretty good sense of things. Unlike similar services — I've found the more I use it, the more I like it.
read more...We're very nearly to December which means Advent of Code will be starting up again. I, of course, haven't finished up 2018's Advent of Code. I'm only on day 7 at this point, which means my projection of completing in 2021 isn't looking so good. Now seems as good a time as any to muddle through another puzzle!
read more...I noticed something wrong with my local system monitoring scripts and spent some time rewriting a few pieces. I've stripped out some of the extraneous pieces after a few years of no updates to the thing.
read more...It wouldn't be right to pick on Firefox all the time, so here I document bugginess within another program I have to use frequently, Slack.
read more...Noodling on a different software I've wanted to write at one point or another I've been considering about how I'd design one specific kind of application; the manual test case management system.
read more...I got to reading about different methods of calculating Pi and couldn't resist implementing at least one in J.
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