Blog

An interactive experiment in using hex strings to encode drum sequencer state.

Figuring out best practices for writing well-typed function overloads through trial-and-error.

Automating the migration of ~80 .keras models from Tensorflow 2.13.0 to 2.16.2.

Writing CUDA kernels to calculate slope, aspect, and hillshading in Python.

Using Hilbert space-filling curves to visualize the effects of block sizes, interleaving, and compression on GeoTIFF file structure.

You can maximize storage efficiency by losslessly quantizing the 64-bit satellite embeddings to just 8-bits.

My configuration for linting and formatting Python projects with Jujutsu.

A quick experiment measuring snag heights in burned forests with computer vision.

Using a TV remote to control a browser using LIRC, irexec, and xdotool, automated with Ansible.

Fake Git hooks in jj using pre-commit and aliases.

Implementing the frequency-shift keying algorithm used by the US Emergency Alert System to encode digital data in audio.

How to hack a multi-layer perceptron into a fully-featured autoencoder.

Benchmarking different methods to accumulate a large array from chunks using Xarray.

Using simulations to estimate the sorting speed of cosmic radiation.

Assembling a 4-bit 'computer' from scratch by simulating bits, relays, logic gates, latches, registers, and adders.

Generating reprs 20% faster by predicting stringified list lengths.

Using polar aggregation and 1D CNNs to classify handwritten digits the (unnecessarily) hard way.

Implementing a cutting edge text generation algorithm from 1980s Usenet.

Recreating a closed-source procedural color generation function through trial and error.

Turning code into notes.

Using machine learning to simulate a 22,000 year old satellite image.

Translating affine transforms to Earth Engine export parameters.

Speeding up serverless Earth Engine functions with Redis caching.

A hacky fix for NordVPN disconnecting shared drives on a local network in Windows.

Training a WaveNet CNN to simulate a vintage tube amp with Neural Amp Modeler.

Testing out a fault tolerant storage algorithm with code.

You can handle async callbacks using promises (but you probably shouldn't).

Load icons from GStatic or data URLs.

Using infrastructure-as-code to reproducibly deploy Earth Engine apps as serverless functions.

Building a Python backend for music generation.

I analyzed 11 million Landsat scenes to test out the new Earth Engine - BigQuery interface.

Handle ambiguity in the grammar, not the parser.

Turning notes into code.

Planning a domain-specific language that compiles to music.

Using grammar to reformat my blog posts.

Taking inspiration from Haskell to write better code with fewer bugs in Python.

Building the worst audio compression algorithm.

How far would you need to travel every day to experience the same number of daylight hours year-round?

Write Python like it's 1959 by encoding it onto IBM 1401 punched cards.

Download and process Earth Engine vector data in parallel with Dask.

Implementing common patch metrics from Fragstats, cloud-native style.

How do urllib, requests, and fsspec compare for download time when grabbing an image from Earth Engine? Let's run some benchmarking to figure out.

Witness the descent of a Python programmer into the depths of low-level digital signal processing and embedded assembly.

Let's simulate sea level rise with cellular automata in Earth Engine.

Slope, aspect, and hillshading are ubiquitous in spatial analysis, but how are they made? Let's implement them from scratch in Python to figure out.

Conway's Game of Life is cool. Earth Engine is cool. What if we put them together?

Nested file structures are great for organization and terrible for import speed in Earth Engine modules. Let's figure out why and what we can do about it.

Websites minify code to make pages load faster, so can we speed up Earth Engine imports by minifying our modules?

Dithering is an image processing technique used in retro video games to simulate shading with a single color. Let's apply it to Landsat imagery in Earth Engine.