A long time ago, I made a little script that converts whatever you type into animals. You can try it here. And you can download and play with the code here. And you can learn more about how it was done below… More »
It’s been over a year since I’ve blogged. The last year has been a crazy flurry of life changes and positive self improvement, including but not limited to:
- Dropping out of grad school
- Joining the tech industry
- Moving (twice)
- Rekindling old hobbies (cycling, painting, and PC gaming)
- Picking up new hobbies (audio books, rock climbing, and tabletop RPGs)
- Running my first Beer Mile (in 17 minutes, tyvm)
- Doing my first unassisted pull-up
- Riding my first quarter century, half century, and metric century
- Going to therapy and stopping having anxiety attacks
- Cutting my hair short
Anyway, I’m at a point in my life where regular blogging might become a thing again. I am learning so much about bikes and computers, I want to share!
Some goals for the foreseeable future:
- Start building stuff with Raspberry Pis
- Go on a multi-day bike tour
- Finally learn calculus (thanks Khan Academy)
- Blog more, paint more, do more yoga
As far as long term goals? I’m really not sure. I recently closed my academia/linguistics chapter of my life, and am starting down this path of the tech world. I’ll do this for a while, and then see where my next “lifetime” takes me.
When I enrolled as a freshman in college, I registered as a linguistics major but I had a notion that I would minor in computer science. Computer science seemed interesting and well-paying and I didn’t even know computational linguistics was a thing at the time. I just liked computers. I never had a problem switching between Macs and PCs. I liked to peak inside computers and replace the RAM and things like that. I had poked around with HTML editors. The classes on things like graphic design and artificial intelligence and stuff seemed really cool.
I looked up the prerequisites and found that to minor in CS you had to actually get pretty far in math, at least through Calculus C and one or two courses of Linear Algebra. So, naturally, I signed up for Calculus A my fall term.
A few weeks ago, I posted about how to build a twitter bot. I wish it stopped there. Unfortunately, all code has bugs (ahem, I mean, features). There are two bugs in my code. The first one I understand, and could probably fix if I tried, but I haven’t because it’s probably more trouble than it’s worth. The second one I don’t understand, but I do know how to fix it. More »
