The Keeb Life
My experience with purchasing the Moonlander keyboard form ZSA.
The System Traps of Applying to Medical School
Applying the System Traps from Thinking in Systems: By Donella Meadows to the application process for Medical School.
The Enshitification of APIs
Why Twitter and Reddit are increasing the cost to use their APIs.
Weak Foe Ahead
My favorite feature in Elden Ring by FromSoftware is a certain spirit summons. Elden Ring Spoiler Warning!
Daylight Savings Time
How daylight savings time has been ruining my life and will ruin yours one day.
Learning Modern Greek
Free resources for learning Modern Greek for English Speakers.
Preparing for the SQL Interview
In this tutorial you will learn how to prepare for the data engineering SQL interview.
How to create a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Model
Using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method we can create a Bayesian model to estimate the number of $GME shares that have been added to the Direct Registration System (DRS) based on the total number of accounts.
The Data Problem for Startups
The difficult problem of relying on application data transfer as a startup.
What is a Decision Tree?
A high level explanation of the decision tree data structure and how it is used in data science.
Opt-in IDFA on iOS 14.5
With the release of iOS 14.5 Apple has now made the ID for Advertisers (IDFA) conditional on an opt-in pop up. This ID is used to attribute advertisements to individual users which is critical for marketing.
Add Images to Gatsby Blog
How to use S3 as a headless CMS to add photos to a Gatsby Blog that uses Markdown and gatsby-image.
SQL for Distributed Systems
Common design patterns used by data engineers in SQL and Python, for ELT scripting in distributed computing environments.
How to Crawl the Web with Scrapy
How to use the python web scraping framework Scrapy to crawl indeed.com. Learn data engineering strategies for getting actionable insights from public information.
Python for Distributed Systems
Common design patterns used by data engineers to write python scripts that can be horizontally scaled on a stateless task runner.
Getting Started with Vertica
How to use Vertica for data warehousing for people who already know SQL. An introduction to the fundamental concepts of a columnar database.