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.

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.

My favorite chess YouTubers who play longer time controls.

Had a painful experience with ssdnodes.com tech support after a website I host was used to send some spam emails.

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

A tutorial on simple NLP tasks with Python which serves as an introduction to several libraries: NLTK, spaCy, and Pattern.