The Archives

March 2022

How to Read Ulysses

February 2022

MediaWiki Patterns for a Zettelkasten: Todo Lists

MediaWiki Patterns for a Zettelkasten: Organizing Pages

January 2022

MediaWiki Patterns for a Zettelkasten: Monthly Template Pattern

MediaWiki Patterns for a Zettelkasten: Daily Page Pattern

Using MediaWiki as a Zettelkasten or External Brain

December 2021

September 2021 TILs

August 2021 TILs

August 2020

Copying LetsEncrypt Certs Between Machines

July 2020

Applied Gitflow

April 2020

A Singleton Configuration Class in Python

March 2020

Using Mock API Servers

February 2020

Creating Mock API Servers

Python: From Args to Kwargs

Confuse-A-Constructor: When Class A's Constructor Returns Objects of Type B

Python Patterns: The Registry

Incorporating Terraform Commands into Makefiles

December 2019

Automatically Generating Up-To-Date requirements.txt for Python Projects

Git Workflows, Part 3: Refactoring Large Branches and Pull Requests

November 2019

Git Workflows, Part 2: Crafting Commits

October 2019

Git Workflows, Part 1: Supercharging your Git Config

September 2019

Mocking AWS in Unit Tests

May 2019

Deconvoluting Convolutional Neural Networks

Graphs for Bioinformatics, Part 2: Finding Eulerian Paths

Graphs for Bioinformatics, Part 1: de Bruijn Graphs, Hamiltonian Paths, and Eulerian Paths

April 2019

The Git-Commit-Ectomy

March 2019

The Josephus Problem: Part 3: Solving the Double Step Case

The Josephus Problem: Part 2: Two Examples

The Josephus Problem: Part 1: The Problem

Approximating Pi (Happy Pi Day)

Five Letter Words: Part 5: The Try Trie Tree

Five Letter Words: Part 4: Revisiting Diff by One

centillion: a document search engine

February 2019

Any Color You Like, As Long As It's 00ADD8

A Few of My Favorite PEPs

Context Managers in Python

January 2019

Building Snakemake Command Line Wrappers for Kubernetes Workflows

Building Snakemake Command Line Wrappers for Workflows

Recursive Backtracking in Go for Bioinformatics Applications: 3. Go Implementation of Backtracking

December 2018

Recursive Backtracking in Go for Bioinformatics Applications: 2. Generating Variations

Recursive Backtracking in Go for Bioinformatics Applications: 1. Counting Variations

Basic Data Structures in Go: Maps

Learning Bioinformatics with Go and Rosalind

October 2018

First Post of the Fall, Part 2: Flaskadillo

First Post of the Fall, Part 1: Data Commons

May 2018

Current Projects

March 2018

Charlesreid1.com Stack

February 2018

D3 Calendar Visualizations

Project Euler Problem 172

January 2018

4x4 Rubik's Cube: Part 4: Sequence Order

4x4 Rubik's Cube: Part 3: Factoring Permutations

4x4 Rubik's Cube: Part 2: Permutations

4x4 Rubik's Cube: Part 1: Representations

Let's Generate Permutations!

September 2017

Five Letter Words: Part 3: Letter Coverage and Dynamic Programming

Five Letter Words: Part 2: More Five-Word Algorithms

Five Letter Words: Part 1: Getting Familiar With The List

August 2017

Euler's Theorem, the Totient Function, and Calculating Totients By Hand

July 2017

Mad Combinatoric Castles

Project Euler Problem 1

Shortest Lattice Paths and Multiset Permutations

Computing Square Roots: Part 2: Using Continued Fractions

Computing Square Roots: Part 1: Using Newton's Method

June 2017

CSE 143 Final Project: Hilbert Sort: 3. The Code

CSE 143 Final Project: Hilbert Sort: 2. The Solution Algorithm

CSE 143 Final Project: Hilbert Sort: 1. The Problem

CSE 143 Final Project: Classy

CSE 143 Final Project: Checkers

May 2017

Teaching Recursion with the N Queens Problem

Undergraduate Research Project: Wireless Sensor Networks for Internet of Things Applications (Part 2: The Technologies)

Undergraduate Research Project: Wireless Sensor Networks for Internet of Things Applications (Part 1: The Project)

April 2017

Traveling Schoolteacher Problem

The Z-Machine: A Simple Turing Machine

AWSome Day Seattle Notes: Part 2: Networking, Security, and Miscellany

AWSome Day Seattle Notes: Part 1: The Basics

Setting Up a Self-Hosted Github Clone with Gitea

Better Timing of Guava Traveling Salesperson Problem Code: Timing Scripts

March 2017

Fixing Bottlenecks in the Guava Traveling Salesperson Problem Code

Python vs. Perl: N Queens Problem

Solving the Traveling Salesperson Problem with Java and Guava

Perl vs. Java: N Queens Problem

Enigma Cipher Implementation: Part 4: Combinatorics

Enigma Cipher Implementation: Part 3: Enigma in Java Without Objects

Enigma Cipher Implementation: Part 2: Pseudocode

Enigma Cipher Implementation: Part 1: How It Works