Entries in Oct, 2019
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Weeknotes: Niche Museums, Kepler, Trees and Streaks
Every now and then someone will ask “so when are you going to build Museums Near Me then?”, based on my obsession with niche museums and websites like www.owlsnearme.com.
[... 872 words]Weeknotes: The Squirrel Census, Genome SQL query
This week was mostly about incremental improvements. And squirrels.
[... 911 words]Weeknotes: PG&E outages, and Open Source works!
My big focus this week was the PG&E outages project. I’m really pleased with how this turned out: the San Francisco Chronicle used data from it for their excellent PG&E outage interactive (mixing in data on wind conditions) and it earned a bunch of interest on Twitter and some discussion on Hacker News.
[... 452 words]Tracking PG&E outages by scraping to a git repo
PG&E have cut off power to several million people in northern California, supposedly as a precaution against wildfires.
[... 833 words]Weeknotes: Dogsheep
Having figured out my Stanford schedule, this week I started getting back into the habit of writing some code.
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