Personal Interests
Documentation of small discoveries.
Doodles
I doodle, and occasionally upload stuff to https://www.instagram.com/willendoodler/.
Blog Archive
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July 2024
- Jul 1, 2024 Fatherhood as a Series of Well-timed Explosions Jul 1, 2024
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June 2024
- Jun 16, 2024 Essayons — Cultivating an Expeditionary Mindset for Problem Solving Jun 16, 2024
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August 2023
- Aug 14, 2023 The Masters Part 11: JTF Alpha Aug 14, 2023
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May 2023
- May 3, 2023 SHSAT App Update (May 2023) May 3, 2023
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October 2022
- Oct 30, 2022 The Parable of the 2x4s Oct 30, 2022
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September 2022
- Sep 13, 2022 The Masters Part 4: The Calabozos of La Princesa Sep 13, 2022
- Sep 6, 2022 The Masters Part 3: The Memories of Trees and Men Sep 6, 2022
- Sep 2, 2022 Chicago & the Sandwich Deliveryman Hypothesis Sep 2, 2022
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August 2022
- Aug 22, 2022 20,000 Words Into “The Masters” + a Video Aug 22, 2022
- Aug 7, 2022 SHSAT App Update Aug 7, 2022
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March 2022
- Mar 12, 2022 Note to daughter from dad Mar 12, 2022
- Mar 6, 2022 Berry Berry Hi Krass Mar 6, 2022
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February 2022
- Feb 26, 2022 A Game of Pool Feb 26, 2022
- Feb 4, 2022 Being Very Very computer — How Tech Workers’ Attention Spans Wander Feb 4, 2022
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January 2022
- Jan 23, 2022 Covid Christmas Jan 23, 2022
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December 2021
- Dec 22, 2021 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 648 Dec 22, 2021
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November 2021
- Nov 21, 2021 New job: Week 1 Nov 21, 2021
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October 2021
- Oct 31, 2021 One Useless Fact: An Origin Story Oct 31, 2021
- Oct 17, 2021 So Long Shotgun / Autodesk! Oct 17, 2021
- Oct 13, 2021 Illusions of Explanatory Depth (IOED) Oct 13, 2021
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September 2021
- Sep 26, 2021 If Anthony Bourdain built CI pipelines, they would contain exactly Zero bullshit Sep 26, 2021
- Sep 17, 2021 How To Open a Lockbox Gets 100K Views Sep 17, 2021
- Sep 13, 2021 9/11 Weekend in New York City Sep 13, 2021
- Sep 6, 2021 Five Types of Celebrity in the Disinformation Age Sep 6, 2021
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August 2021
- Aug 27, 2021 CI/CD Dashboards for Observability of Software Build Failures Aug 27, 2021
- Aug 20, 2021 Vaccination Card Scanner Part 2 Aug 20, 2021
- Aug 15, 2021 E Pluribus Unum: 13 Republican and Democratic States in Charts Aug 15, 2021
- Aug 14, 2021 80 pound weighted chin up on gymnastics rings Aug 14, 2021
- Aug 9, 2021 Using AI to Discern Cats from CDC Vaccination Cards Aug 9, 2021
- Aug 6, 2021 15 Foot Hands-only Rope Climb with 35 pounds Aug 6, 2021
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July 2021
- Jul 27, 2021 Feats of “Dad Strength” Jul 27, 2021
- Jul 13, 2021 Concerns of July 13, 2021 Jul 13, 2021
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June 2021
- Jun 24, 2021 Simple Randori Check List Jun 24, 2021
- Jun 10, 2021 Essential Workplace Requirements Jun 10, 2021
- Jun 1, 2021 Animatronic AI: Story Generator Jun 1, 2021
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May 2021
- May 31, 2021 AI-Generated Short Story: Time to Dial 911 May 31, 2021
- May 28, 2021 AI-Generated Short Story: Water is just Earth Soup May 28, 2021
- May 27, 2021 AI-Generated Short Story: Malaysian Sasquatch Guard May 27, 2021
- May 9, 2021 My Mother May 9, 2021
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April 2021
- Apr 29, 2021 Brooklyn Tech Apr 29, 2021
- Apr 24, 2021 Sphex Ichneumoneus Apr 24, 2021
- Apr 12, 2021 Tech Company Resignation Email Generator Apr 12, 2021
- Apr 8, 2021 Employee Review Samples from a Startup: Chewie Apr 8, 2021
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March 2021
- Mar 27, 2021 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 378: Fully Vaccinated against Corona Mar 27, 2021
- Mar 21, 2021 Computationally measuring similarity of terms with 6 algorithms Mar 21, 2021
- Mar 2, 2021 Machine-Generated Art Descriptions v1 Mar 2, 2021
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February 2021
- Feb 25, 2021 Prime Number Game Feb 25, 2021
- Feb 22, 2021 NLP Pipeline trained on Modern Art Descriptions Feb 22, 2021
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January 2021
- Jan 31, 2021 New York Times Spelling Bee Helper Jan 31, 2021
- Jan 26, 2021 15 essential writing tools for Pencil & Pen lovers with an expeditionary mindset Jan 26, 2021
- Jan 24, 2021 Preparation for the SHSAT 2021 (in Covid times) Jan 24, 2021
- Jan 1, 2021 Implicit Bias Jan 1, 2021
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December 2020
- Dec 21, 2020 My best friend Dec 21, 2020
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November 2020
- Nov 30, 2020 The Presumption of Savagery Nov 30, 2020
- Nov 20, 2020 Zoom WOD 11 Nov 20, 2020
- Nov 14, 2020 ORF Specification for Writing bug tickets Nov 14, 2020
- Nov 6, 2020 Zoom WOD 10 Nov 6, 2020
- Nov 2, 2020 Daily Work consecrated in Routines (and a Dockerfile!) Nov 2, 2020
- Nov 1, 2020 Adding Tooltip Functionality to a SquareSpace Site Nov 1, 2020
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October 2020
- Oct 31, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 232: The Zeigarnik Effect Oct 31, 2020
- Oct 30, 2020 Zoom WOD 9 Oct 30, 2020
- Oct 23, 2020 Zoom WOD 8 Oct 23, 2020
- Oct 21, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 221 Oct 21, 2020
- Oct 18, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 218 Oct 18, 2020
- Oct 16, 2020 Zoom WOD 7 Oct 16, 2020
- Oct 9, 2020 Zoom WOD 6 Oct 9, 2020
- Oct 2, 2020 Zoom WOD 5 Oct 2, 2020
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September 2020
- Sep 25, 2020 Zoom WOD 3 Sep 25, 2020
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August 2020
- Aug 8, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 148 Aug 8, 2020
- Aug 5, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 145 Aug 5, 2020
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July 2020
- Jul 30, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 139 Jul 30, 2020
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April 2020
- Apr 5, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 21: 3.5 hour Grocery Store Line Apr 5, 2020
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March 2020
- Mar 29, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 14: Gratitude Mar 29, 2020
- Mar 26, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 11: The Occasional Need for Futile and Stupid Gestures Mar 26, 2020
- Mar 25, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 10: Scary Movies as Barometers Mar 25, 2020
- Mar 24, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 9: Aqua Best Mar 24, 2020
- Mar 23, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 8: A Metamorphosis of Concern Mar 23, 2020
- Mar 22, 2020 Corona Virus Dispatch from NYC, Day 7: Online School Mar 22, 2020
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February 2020
- Feb 24, 2020 How Not to Prepare for a 5K Feb 24, 2020
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October 2019
- Oct 31, 2019 3 Pencil Sharpeners You Must Own Oct 31, 2019
- Oct 29, 2019 The Every-day-if-ication of $7 Coffee Oct 29, 2019
- Oct 22, 2019 Drop Seoi Nage Oct 22, 2019
- Oct 21, 2019 Cast Iron Buttermilk Biscuits Oct 21, 2019
The app is now making practice SHSAT quizzes on an automated schedule — using a combo of
AWS Lambda
,Rita.js
,TypeScript
, andOpenAI
API endpoints — all running in a Github Actions build pipeline.