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The computer gets a graphics card!

I wrote a simple monitor program using the LCD and keyboard input that allows you to program the computer–from the computer itself!

The computer now has a keyboard!

I’m building a version of Ben Eater’s 6502-based breadboard computer. This will be the first of a series of posts where I go over my design choices and track my progress with the build.

Photos and walk-through of my Stratocaster kit build.

A quine is a program that outputs its own source code. Here’s one I wrote in Python.

I tasted and rated 32 wines in Introduction to Wines and I thought the data would be fun to explore. Do I like reds more than whites? French wines more than US wines? Does price correlate with my wine preference?

The Town Hall Project makes it easy to find local town halls with your state and federal representatives. To get this information, volunteers spend time searching through politicians' Twitter feeds for town hall announcements. I wrote a script to help do this faster and less painfully.

You may have heard of this before; academic websites, CVs, and Twitter feeds typically catalogue successes, obscuring the many failures and rejections that are a natural part of any academic career. Following many others, and in the spirit of openness, here is a CV of my own failures.

I really wanted to see the link graph of websites, but didn’t find user-friendly tools for doing this. So, I wrote my own. In this post, I describe how the script works, how to run it, how to customize the visualizations, and what issues I ran into along the way. Most importantly, I have some pretty pictures and an embedded interactive graph of this very site.