Archive

193 posts

2025

Jun 24 Evolution of a Get Endpoint
Mar 27 loan trickery

2024

Dec 3 38 and Grateful

2022

Jun 15 Transacter and Intent/Result

2021

Aug 23 hype channels

2020

May 18 interceptors
Apr 1 Hugo

2019

Jun 11 feeds justification
May 23 macos log command
Apr 25 absolutely minimal OLTP to OLAP pipeline
Feb 21 smart arguments
Jan 8 feed sequences
Jan 7 pattern: extract mutating variables to State class
Jan 6 unreasonable wish -- an sql interface to websites
Jan 5 more light, better pictures
Jan 4 watching progress in mysql
Jan 3 personal finance resources
Jan 2 espps are free money
Jan 1 tradeoffs

2018

Oct 29 sharded feeds
Oct 23 moar stupid jquery tricks
Oct 21 skydive!
Oct 17 killing all timeouts in js
Oct 17 jquery selectors
Oct 7 Naming is hard (so don't)
Oct 3 Feeds as cache invalidation mechanism
Jul 11 robustness principle and mocks
Jul 10 cross-dc sync with feed published KV
Jul 2 history preserving data models
Jun 29 mysql feeds
May 31 constraint violations in tests
May 15 multiple thread test cases in java
Apr 25 big-ish personal storage
Apr 24 sfpark api
Feb 23 regex in java
Jan 26 guava RangeMap
Jan 12 osquery
Jan 9 profitably wrong
Jan 5 todobackend.com
Jan 4 dancing bull pricing structure
Jan 3 everything has a failure rate
Jan 2 extracting the last few dollars from Visa/MC gift cards
Jan 1 things you don't learn in grad school

2017

Nov 29 url encoding safe relational operators
Nov 13 snack buying
Nov 7 even the ceo doesn't get an office
Oct 27 500 Million Dollars!
Sep 12 confident women are getting bypassed by overconfident men
Aug 31 python attrs
Jul 17 klr650 planned upgrades
May 5 relational java explorations with sqlite3 vtab
Apr 19 toy/life data models
Apr 3 _useful
Mar 31 .sqliterc
Mar 29 sprat: multiplayer solitaire
Mar 27 idea: transaction ordering in ledger-cli
Feb 1 basic http requests and server handlers in clojure
Jan 20 use the `locale.currency` library function
Jan 18 filter vs spec (draft)

2016

Dec 31 korean beef recipe
Dec 29 christmas commute
Dec 12 CBCL: The Common Business Communication Language
Dec 7 oblique programming strategies
Dec 2 motorcycle learnings at 250 miles
Dec 1 Useful homebrew formula
Nov 30 KLR-650 first month & american gumball
Oct 14 stocks and options from 30k feet
Sep 26 streaks vs statistical streaks
Apr 24 i fucking love mangoes
Apr 15 switching over to https
Jan 2 inspired by magicmirror

2015

Dec 30 individual sealed ibuprofen & zyrtec
Dec 29 first canning adventure: brandied pears
Dec 27 pragmatic edc
Nov 17 recent projects - sous vide, hydroponic pump, and another table
Aug 23 life pro tip curb rampant consumerism by identifying actual needs
Aug 19 build_json.sh
Jun 7 carputer brainstorming ideas
May 16 car is paid off!

2014

Nov 19 slide rules
Oct 28 debugging internet
Oct 15 don't poll
Sep 26 logging
Sep 1 Switching to jekyll
Aug 22 14 vs 1499 vs 15
Aug 8 launchd as cron crash course
Jul 15 black box machine learning
Jul 10 mnemonicode-0.73
May 29 piping for fun and profit
Apr 9 SSL Cert Reissue
Jan 24 Ditching the consumer grade wireless router

2013

Dec 29 language fluidity
Nov 16 square
Oct 27 some setup notes
Oct 23 overly-ambitious-isqo and the design of numerical codes
Oct 17 a really simple iterative refinement example
Sep 20 C/C++ Values, Pointers, and References
Aug 19 Numerical Development on OSX (in the Command Line)
Jul 31 spring-mass visualization
Jul 30 python decorators
Jun 25 better matlab email notifications
May 15 org-mode emacs to track mileage
Apr 10 Getting really fast at LaTeX
Mar 13 implementation of set operations
Feb 15 website basics
Jan 26 some tips for project euler problems

2012

Dec 16 Some Recent Photography
Nov 20 Game of Life
Oct 22 Perturbation Theory Problems with bvp4c
Sep 28 more stupid matlab tricks
Aug 16 debugging matlab mex
Jul 27 Meta post - How my blog works
Jun 27 More cracking D-Link Files
Jun 13 McCormick Interview - Outreach 101 + QUALS
May 26 Numerical Recipes & Scientific Libraries
Apr 13 Integrating Sparrow and Aperture/iPhoto
Apr 2 chicago 2012 marathon
Mar 29 fibonacci miles and kilometers
Mar 29 digital photography
Mar 26 tjtestharness - a language-agnostic DVCS unit-test/continuous integration tool
Feb 1 cplex matlab interface
Feb 1 a trig problem solved in MATLAB
Jan 30 spamfunc for optimization in matlab
Jan 10 VirtualBox and HRD/JT65

2011

Sep 9 tcjblog.py
Sep 4 Five Critical Textbooks for (Applied!) Math & Physics Students

2010

May 27 Getting GnuPlot to compile on OSX
May 25 ZSH and scp/rsync globbing
May 25 Spaces setup
May 25 Pylab PDF
Jan 11 Why We Know Less About the World than Ever

2009

Dec 13 Tunes U and Essential Mathematica
Nov 26 TED Talks
Aug 24 What could you possibly do with mathematics?
Jul 24 Goodbye, Walter Cronkite
Jul 21 Wiki Problems
Jul 21 Blog Segregation
May 30 MySQLdb module in Python on Ubuntu
May 27 Netlib
May 27 A Quick MySQL Reference
Apr 19 Northwestern University
Apr 1 Found - Wordpress Spam Virus in Theme files
Mar 1 TiVo Router Project
Feb 25 Mission Graduate School -- Success
Feb 24 GenHosts
Feb 9 My Hint for Foreign ATM Machines
Feb 9 Graduate School Applications and Microsoft
Feb 6 HMCP Set, TextMate, and RoR 2.0
Jan 30 David Liff is a Master
Jan 6 Why Do Math and Izhikevich
Jan 2 Graduate School Applications

2008

Nov 29 Computer Ressurection and Elastic Cloud Experimentation
Nov 8 Fame and FORTRAN
Oct 31 Boom De Yada
Oct 28 Happy Birthday to Me, Pt. 2
Oct 26 Smart People Shows
Oct 26 Happy Birthday To Me
Oct 26 Getting an AMATH Minor at the University of Washington
Oct 22 A few more exotic uses for older hardware
Oct 20 Ubuntu Hacks -- Flash, Java, e17
Oct 19 Minor OS X Shell Shortcomings
Oct 15 Themes!
Oct 14 Backposts Galore!
Oct 13 traviscj lives!
Aug 24 Mugged!
Aug 22 More Updates from Rio
Aug 20 First Couple of Days in Rio
Aug 18 IN BRAZIL
Aug 17 In Atlanta
Aug 7 Whack it with an X squared!
Aug 5 iPhone 2.0 - Impressions and Favorites
Aug 4 Johnson vs Acronis, Pt 2
Aug 3 Final Pre-trip Brazil Updates
Aug 2 Johnson vs Acronis
Jul 30 Dijkstra's Algorithm Paper
Jul 15 Of Weddings and Best Men
Jul 10 PHP Vulnerability Checklist
Jul 7 NSA's RHEL5 Guide
Jun 23 Odegaard Copy Center
Jun 22 Firefox PDF on OSX
Jun 21 Skeletool CX
Jun 20 Brazil Tickets
May 12 Differential Equations
May 9 Cython
Mar 12 Vertigo

2007