I’m an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). My main job is software engineering, but I’ve always been interested in medicine. A friend turned me onto the idea in college, and it rattled around my head for years. I delayed for a … Read more
As a programmer, it is natural to think of data as a series of one-to-one relationships between string identifiers and objects in a computer. Many standard libraries in programming languages allow for round-tripping between strings and objects, including JSON, ISO-8601 … Read more
If you need to speed up Python, Cython is a very useful tool. It lets you seamlessly merge Python syntax with calls into C or C++ code, making it easy to write high-performance extensions with rich Python interfaces. That being … Read more
November of 2008. I had more hair, a flip phone, and absolutely no idea what was coming. Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor … Read more
This was the first year in many that I managed to regularly update and publish content on my personal site. In past years I started strong (usually around New Years) with fresh writing, energy, and enthusiasm. But somewhere around February … Read more
I recommend a long bicycle tour as one of the best ways to see parts of the world, especially America. There was an article in a recent New York Times about 8 great bike touring routes in the US. These … Read more
I’ve been having a hard time understanding IPv6. On one hand, the basics initially seem pretty straightforward (there aren’t enough IPv4 addresses for all the devices on the internet, so people invented IPv6! There are enough IPv6 addresses for everyone!) … Read more
Hello friends! It’s been a while. I’ve been finding it very hard to write while holding up a full-time job, and I’ve also been dealing with some very frustrating joint/ergo struggles that make using a compute kinda painful. I think … Read more
Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor named one of the best thinkers in the field of management, said that we don’t really buy products or services. Rather, we “hire” something to get a job done. Based on this, think … Read more
Some reasons to measureSome reasons to measure A question I get asked with some frequency is: why bother measuring X, why not build something instead? More bluntly, in a recent conversation with a newsletter author, his comment on some future … Read more