Clojure Data Science: Sent Counts and Aggregates
This is Part 3 of a series of blog posts called Clojure Data Science. Check out the previous post if you missed it. For this post, we want to generate some summaries of our data by doing aggregate queries. We won’t yet be pulling...
Clojure Code Quality Tools
I work with many programming languages on a daily basis. As a polyglot programmer, I’ve come to appreciate tools that help me follow best practices. For JavaScript, there’s the excellent jshint. When I need to verify some XML, there’s xmllint. In a Ruby on Rails project, I can...
Atreus: My Custom Keyboard
Last year I wrote about about building chording keyboards and USB foot pedals. At the time, using the Teensy micro controller as a USB HID device was possible, but it still required a lot of research. There was no good central resource for knowledge about building keyboards....
Housekeeping: Imported Coderwall protips
As part of my continuing effort to archive content I’ve created to this blog, I’ve migrated all of my Coderwall protips. Here’s a quick list of the posts: Indent and Colorize HTML Strings in Pry November 14, 2013. git fml September 3, 2013. Minsky’s Circle...
Clojure Data Science: Refactoring and Cleanup
This is Part 2 of a series of blog posts called Clojure Data Science. Check out the previous post if you missed it. Welcome to the second post in this series. If you followed along in the last post, your code should be ready...
Clojure Data Science: Ingesting Your Gmail Inbox
This is Part 1 of a series of blog posts inspired by the exercises from Agile Data Science with Clojure. You may be interested in my review of the book. For this blog post series, we are going to use your Gmail inbox as...
A quick dashboard in Hoplon & Castra
Note: I began writing a much longer blog post that went into a ton of detail about how to build an app dashboard that used Hoplon and Castra. The kind of dashboard that just consumes JSON API endpoints from another app or other data sources. Such dashboards update on the...
Agile Data Science: Review and Thoughts
Recently, I read the book Agile Data Science by Russell Jurney. The book covers data science and how the author applies an agile workflow and powerful tooling to accomplish tasks. While I found the...
A theory of compound intelligence gain
Note that this is probably not enough to call a theory. It’s an idea, at most. I’m currently reading the book Race Against the Machine, which describes how increasing levels of automation by technology are related to capital and labor. But this post isn’t about that book. It simply...
An (unscientific) study in behavior change with software
Forming habits is hard. There’s been tons of research on what practices help form new habits successfully. And there has been research on what software can do to help form new habits. It’s not enough to simply send daily reminders or keep track of the goals in a visible place....