I'm still knitting (and crocheting (and 3d printing!)))

My best chess tournament performance so far.

I started knitting again, again

A report from my fourth classical chess tournament at the 2022 Denver Chess Club Fall Classic. I finished with 3.5 points out of 5 games for 6th place in my section and a new provisional USCF rating of 1501.

I ran the 49th annual Imogene Pass Run (September 10, 2022)

An excerpt from a recent interview with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language, about quitting his job.

A rant about an open-source ecommerce platform.

How to generate uniformly random derangement for secret santa purposes.

I've started knitting again.

A friend organized a project to crochet hats for the homeless (or other cold people) this winter. She gave us a simple hat pattern to learn and these notes are my attempt to make sense of it and explain to other beginning crocheters, including a schematic diagram.

I played in the Denver Chess Club's one-day rapid tournament and didn't lose all of my games.

I ran a July 4 half marathon in Minneapolis and the humidity got me.

I beat my Bolder Boulder PR by almost 2 minutes in 2019.

A guide to running a 5K in under 20:00 with only 18 years of training. Now with more ska.

A report from my first chess tournament at the 2019 Denver Open. I finished with 3 points out of 5 games and a new provisional USCF rating of 1615.

I ran a trail 25K in Arizona on December 1.

My favorite chess YouTubers who play longer time controls.

My most consistent training cycle yet resulted in a second-place finish at my local marathon!

Painful experience with tech support after a website I host was used to send some spam emails.

I won my age division at the 2018 Louisville Trail Half Marathon

I ran the 45th annual Imogene Pass Run (September 8, 2018)

How to get a VEC USB (Infinity "IN-USB-1" or "IN-USB-2") foot controller to work under linux.

I ran the 2018 Evergreen Town Race 10K.

A tutorial on simple NLP tasks with Python which serves as an introduction to the NLTK and spaCy libraries.