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Welcome to my blog - here are some of my write-ups that I’m proud of! Feel free to skip/skim parts that aren’t interesting to you. I try to write these blog posts for reproducibility (i.e a lot of detail and code snippets), so posts contain more detail than necessary. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer.
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Architecture of a Joke
(operations and other stuff)
September 27, 2024
programming
cloud
architecture
rust
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My April Fool's Joke made it to the front page (of hackernews)
A DNS resolver with advertisements
April 03, 2024
networking
rust
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Failed Branchless Optimization - are we actually optimizing what we think we are?
Profiling a toy study with DNS headers
February 15, 2024
optimizations
profiling
assembly
rust
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My Traumatic AWS Bill
August 18, 2022
cloud
security
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Better Testing with Environment Composability
(and other Forbidden Techniques)
July 02, 2022
microservices
software development
testing
deployments
environments
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Temporary Microservice Pattern
Description and Reflections on Service Patterns
March 01, 2022
microservices
systems architecture
deployment
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Practical Statistics for Software Engineering - Descriptive Statistics
August 29, 2021
statistics
metrics
software engineering
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Practical Statistics for Software Engineering - Distributions
Case Study with Latency Measurements
July 21, 2021
statistics
programming
distributions
software engineering
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CUDA Acceleration of Movie Barcodes
March 28, 2021
CUDA
cuML
k-means
bottlenecks
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Hip-Hop's Diss Tracks As Graphs (or Networks)
Analyzing beef in a genre
January 17, 2021
graph theory
network analysis
networkx
d3
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Movie Visualization Critique & Engineering: K-Means Based Visualization
Critique of a popular visualization subgenre and a demonstration of my improved version
June 12, 2020
k-means
color
movies
data visualizations
machine learning
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GaitKeep: Multi-Modal Approach to Gait Authentication
A break-down of an (incomplete), machine-learning based authentication system
March 28, 2020
biometric security
machine learning
convnet
computer vision
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A (More) Complete Guide To Web Scraping
February 17, 2020
webdev
html
urls
selenium
javascript
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Engineering a Custom Chocolate Bar
Trials and tribulations of an amateur chocolatier
August 29, 2019
cooking
molding
vector-graphics
sugar
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Price Discrimination in (and with) the Tech Industry
clever trick in tech (with examples)
March 02, 2019
price-discrimination
segmentation
pricing