I got a Steam Deck thinking it would be my go-to handheld retro emulator, but I was wrong.
Who wants to read my Star Wars fanfiction? No one? Move along then, nothing to see here.
The whole story of how I went from a high school teacher to a grad student studying AI at MIT.
How a ThinkPad has held up day-to-day over the last year, from a first time owner's perspective.
Words matter. s/master/live
A reflection on identity. It's like the Twilight Zone, except it's not scary and (almost) everyone lives.
New year, new laptop. Some helpful hints and complaints about Arch on a ThinkPad.
Using ditto to get data off a Mac.
What a grad level AI class at MIT taught me about education.
What to consider and advice for solo devs out there from my time working alone on a platform at NASA.
An email exchange about how I started my career as a NASA human spaceflight software engineer.
I like to think of successful science fiction as a house of mirrors, in which features of humanity’s story are exaggerated and examined. The…
How to back up Jira and Confluence server instances to the cloud. Bonus: my thoughts on the importance of being a lazy software engineer.
Examining spacewalk timelines and how we translated them into usable data structures.
Diving into Apollo exploration EVAs and how they ran behind schedule. Science takes more time than you think!
It’s hard to do front-end development and not notice the little things about other websites. Extra margin here, great responsiveness there…
The future of spacewalks. How NASA astronauts and flight controllers manage EVAs, and the software we're building to support them on Mars and beyond.
I like to place my terminals on the left and right edges of my screen. Up to like 5 minutes ago, new terminals would open with a y-axis gap…
Here’s a handy, dandy guide to KaTeX , Khan Academy’s LaTeX implementation. Super useful if you want to format beautiful equations. For…
I’m not a fan of horror movies. I don’t enjoy cheap scares and I don’t appreciate the shock value of the grotesque (though I don’t mind…
After initially deploying this blog a few weeks ago, I noticed some weird tendencies / bugs every time I published a new post or updated…
My watch refused to pair with my phone earlier this week. It was late and I was frustrated, a bit tired, and delirious. I wrote some haikus…
Before I begin, I want to point out that I really like GatsbyJS. It basically solved all of my front end requirements in one fell swoop…
Every time I want to make a flexbox, I have to look up the helper classes. Every. Single. Time. And every time I do, I end up on CSS Tricks…
If you’re lazy about permissions, chmod and chown both take a --reference flag to set permissions equal to those of another file. This…
I picked up Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 in a bookstore at LAX before a late overseas flight. I had just finished a large beer at the bar to…
How I built this blog as a static site with GatsbyJS and AWS.
Quick tip for rsync