Journal

This is a running of things I want to keep track. Jump to the bottom of the page to see the full list.

2025

• This site is now powered by Quartz
• Ghiblified — the week we all got ghiblified
• Started playing Pickleball at Carmel Racquet Club.
• Purchased a Mazda CX-90
• Visited India in May-June

2024

• Started Ollyver Analytics in January and wound up my association in July
• Kotiwee park walk — Monday, 2024-08-19 to Sunday, 2024-08-25
• Visit to Dull’s farm; not a dull moment — Monday, 2024-09-02 to Sunday, 2024-09-08
• Saturday morning hikes are great — Monday, 2024-09-09 to Sunday, 2024-09-15
• The longer you stay away edition — Monday, 2024-09-16 to Sunday, 2024-09-22
• bet on the contrarian ideas that work — Monday, 2024-09-23 to Sunday, 2024-09-29
• This website is now hosted on Cloudfront — Monday, 2024-09-30 to Sunday, 2024-10-06
• 2024, week 41 — Monday, 2024-10-07 to Sunday, 2024-10-13
• not the soup — Monday, 2024-10-14 to Sunday, 2024-10-20
• Joined MISO in October
• Leased a Vinfast VF8 EV in November
• Visited Rancho Cucomonga, CA and Death Valley in December ‘24 - Jan ‘25

2023

• where I dust off the weekly
• Sports Day Out — Monday, 2023-11-20 to Sunday, 2023-11-26
• Where I get off Twitter, now known as X
• Visiting the Bangalore Lit Fest — Monday, 2023-12-04 to Sunday, 2023-12-10
• this section is left blank — Monday, 2023-12-11 to Sunday, 2023-12-17
• Trip to Chennai, love in Sanskrit — Monday, 2024-02-26 to Sunday, 2024-03-03
• Whither ChatGPT? — Monday, 2024-03-04 to Sunday, 2024-03-17
• Devon aur Devika — Monday, 2024-03-18 to Sunday, 2024-03-24
• 2024, week 13 — Monday, 2024-03-25 to Sunday, 2024-03-31
• A children’s play — Monday, 2024-05-06 to Sunday, 2024-05-12
• ಊರ ಹಬ್ಬ ಇತ್ಯಾ — Monday, 2024-05-13 to Sunday, 2024-05-19
• Travel to Mysuru — Monday, 2024-05-20 to Sunday, 2024-05-26
• style updates to konakanirecipes — Monday, 2024-05-27 to Sunday, 2024-06-02
• some notes — Monday, 2024-06-03 to Sunday, 2024-06-09
• Hail the library! — Monday, 2024-07-22 to Sunday, 2024-07-28

August

• Come to Bengaluru

September

• Trip to Mysuru

October

• Trip to Viet Nam

2022

• bought a farm in Mandya district.

2021

• Joined RiskIQ.
• RiskIQ got acquired by Microsoft.

2020

2019 / tech log

2018

• ongoing / tech log
• 2/16 Published You don’t need no stinking projects [dub version]
• 2/2 Gave a talk on “Intrustion Detection Systems” at Pythology. slides

2017

• 8/16 Gave “ReasonML” talk at IndyJS meetup.
• 10/27 Attended Rust Belt Rust conference at Columbus, OH.

2016

• 9/15 Gave “Scala for data science” talk at Data Science Indy.
• 8/29 A javascript bookmarklet to cleanup cluttered webpages using boilerpipe.
• 8/2 Spacemacs talk at Vimindy. [Slides].
• 6/15 A note on how to crawl course websites gently
• 4/17 A note on how using zotero makes it easy to quote webpages, as a response to a twitter question about the utility of BibTeX.
• 2/10 Papers we love – Datascience Indy Kickoff talk slides.

2015

• 5/1, Speaker at Pythology lecture series on Data science. [Slide deck].

2014

• 11/29, started the links section
• 9/25, First meetup of GoIndy
• 9/8, DataScienceIndy meetup group has now crossed 250 members
• 8/26, Started Indianapolis Go User Group
• 5/6, attended Indy Mobile Developers meetup on "Hello world mobile apps with Xamarin" by Brad Pillow.
• 4/16, Wrote a jsPDF script to generate Daily Habit Tracker calendar.
• 2/14, Added notes on AWK
• 2/11, Attended Indy BigData conference.
• 2/4, Added citations page for the papers referred in various notebook pages.
• 1/30, Notes on learning R [resources].
• 1/28, Exploring weather data with R
• 1/19, Started reading Doing Data Science book
• 1/17, Notes on likelihood
• 1/12, Read "Human variation in Overriding Attentional Capture
• 1/6, Started a "tech papers read" section. Bootstrapped with some earlier readings on sofware engineering.

2013

• 12/19, Presented a talk -- Introduction to iPython notebooks, at DataScience Indy meetup
• 12/10, released Treehopper, a visual dashboard for git built using Neo4j as part of my DBMS class at IUPUI.
• 10/30, created a github repo to demonstrate typical usage of pandoc. See beamer example directory.
• 10/19, added a quick introduction to nimrod programming language.
• 10/15, added notes on Neo4J graph database.
• 10/11, attended ErlangCamp at Nashville, TN.
• 10/4, attended Erlang factory lite 2013, Chicago
• 8/21, attended "Presenting Data and Information" workshop conducted by Edward Tufte. These are my notes.
• 8/14, added command line apps in python presentation to indypy github repository.
• 5/9, presented "A survey of datascience landscape" talk at DSIndy meetup. Slidedeck.
• 4/11, created the dsindy github organization to hold presentations and code created by datascience indy members.
• 7/10, btbytes.com is now 10 years old.
• 2/26, gave a talk on Flask at indypy's web framework shootout. Code on github - todoflask

2012

• 11/3, created pywsd, Python script to create UML sequence diagrams using websequencediagrams.com API. See the included Makefile for extended usage examples.
• 9/5, added a python script to import textpattern blog posts to jekyll.
• 7/28, presented "Does Python have the secret sauce to be web scale?" (video link) at PyOhio 2012.
• 3/3, create a new github repo to hold my dotjs scripts.

2011

• 9/8, created a typeset version of Chuck Moore's book: "Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language" in an effort to understand the use of Pandoc in creating large documents in multiple output formats.
• 3/26, added a demonstration of emacs keyboard macros
• 2/3, added notes on configuring couchapp with nginx
• 1/11, added notes on creating the aforementioned webapp stack.
• 1/9, added notes on an embedded webapp stack
• earlier posts (2005-2011) are archived.

2009

• 8/29, created Rufflecat, a Google App Engine hosted "iPhone app", that Indypy uses to hand out door prices.
• 5/1, wrote Move Over MySQL, SQLite is here!! for DeveloperIQ magazine (in print!)
• 1/2, started PyOFC2, a pyhon library to generate JSON required for Open Flash Chart. There is an example demonstrating how to use PyOFC2 with Django.

2008

• 10/7, started webgen.py, a static site generator in python. code.
• 7/26, presented "Beginning web development with Python and Google App Engine" at PyOhio 2008. The example app i wrote for demo: Gappsites, a "made with X" type catalog site.

2005

• 4/22 wrote "Speed up Python with Pyrex" article for DeveloperIQ

2003

• launched this site as an open source software CD seller. See the wayback machine snapshot.

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