ABOUT
You can find me solving problems at the intersection where tech and business collide. My background is in aerospace engineering, and I currently live on Vancouver Island with my awesome wife and kids. I'm passionate about quantitative finance, hardware hacking, infosec & cryptography, elections integrity, World War II combat flight simulators, and ultimate frisbee.
When COVID happened I thought like some people that it wouldn't be such a long haul. I learned to cook the 5 mother sauces and played a lot of video games. As the pandemic and lockdowns stretched on I figured I'd start blogging about things that interest me, but what resulted is this. It's not so much a blog as a notebook where I gradually collect articles that I write about topics that interest me that may or may not have any value to anyone else.
This is a living notebook, kinda like a wiki but wayyyyy more cumbersome to edit. Here be dragons. and typos.
ARTICLES:
October 2024
I now understand why Frontend Frameworks exist
Viscerally.
July 2024
Letting Go
In which I wax poetic in retrospective of my failed SaaS.
January 2024
Door Sensor
Connecting ballpoint pen springs to a beaglebone black for fun and zero profit.
December 2023
Cookies
C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me…
June 2023
On being busy
Or, why I haven't written anything since November.
2022
Algorithmic Trading Series Part 2: Validating Assumptions
Part 2 of a series on algorithmic trading, in which I examine some assumptions I made in part 1.
Multithreaded TCP Server in Common Lisp
Some learning as I solve Challenge 0 of Protohackers in Common Lisp by writing a multithreaded TCP Echo Server.
SBCL Timers
Notes to self regarding a gotcha in SBCL's implementation for the next time I try to mess around with Common Lisp timers.
Algorithmic Trading Series Part 1: Modelling
The first in what I hope will be a long series of posts about quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, and markets in general.
2021
IPv6 Prefix Delegation on the EdgeRouter X
Setting up IPv6 Prefix Delegation on the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X SFP, on my fibre-to-the-home connection from Telus.
Server Name Indication (SNI) in dovecot and postfix
A small erratum for the wonderful Workaround.org ISPmail guide, and a howto for getting SNI working with dovecot and postfix.
RASPI GARDENER
Augmented gardening with embedded systems and push notifications to my phone.
BLOGGING WITH ORG-MODE AND GNU MAKE
I've tried I think all the static site generators at this point and most of them are over-engineered for my use case so I wrote my own ultra-minimalist one.
2020
DEVELOPING IN C# WITH .NET CORE AND EMACS
Troll your friends and coworkers by writing C# in Emacs, with "intellisense" code-completion!
UNIFI-CATION
Upgrading my home network by installing some Ubiquiti UniFi gear.