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Welcome to my blog - here are some of my write-ups that I’m proud of! Feel free to skip/skim parts that aren’t interesting to you. I try to write these blog posts for reproducibility (i.e a lot of detail and code snippets), so posts contain more detail than necessary. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer.

• The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ & Rust
  Copying vs Passing by reference
  August 30, 2025
  programming c++ memory rust
  
• Architecture of a Joke
  (operations and other stuff)
  September 27, 2024
  programming cloud architecture rust
  
• My April Fool's Joke made it to the front page (of hackernews)
  A DNS resolver with advertisements
  April 03, 2024
  networking rust
  
• Failed Branchless Optimization - are we actually optimizing what we think we are?
  Profiling a toy study with DNS headers
  February 15, 2024
  optimizations profiling assembly rust
  
• My Traumatic AWS Bill
  August 18, 2022
  cloud security
  
• Better Testing with Environment Composability
  (and other Forbidden Techniques)
  July 02, 2022
  microservices software development testing deployments environments
  
• Temporary Microservice Pattern
  Description and Reflections on Service Patterns
  March 01, 2022
  microservices systems architecture deployment
  
• Practical Statistics for Software Engineering - Descriptive Statistics
  August 29, 2021
  statistics metrics software engineering
  
• Practical Statistics for Software Engineering - Distributions
  Case Study with Latency Measurements
  July 21, 2021
  statistics programming distributions software engineering
  
• CUDA Acceleration of Movie Barcodes
  March 28, 2021
  CUDA cuML k-means bottlenecks
  
• Hip-Hop's Diss Tracks As Graphs (or Networks)
  Analyzing beef in a genre
  January 17, 2021
  graph theory network analysis networkx d3
  
• Movie Visualization Critique & Engineering: K-Means Based Visualization
  Critique of a popular visualization subgenre and a demonstration of my improved version
  June 12, 2020
  k-means color movies data visualizations machine learning
  
• GaitKeep: Multi-Modal Approach to Gait Authentication
  A break-down of an (incomplete), machine-learning based authentication system
  March 28, 2020
  biometric security machine learning convnet computer vision
  
• A (More) Complete Guide To Web Scraping
  February 17, 2020
  webdev html urls selenium javascript
  
• Engineering a Custom Chocolate Bar
  Trials and tribulations of an amateur chocolatier
  August 29, 2019
  cooking molding vector-graphics sugar
  
• Price Discrimination in (and with) the Tech Industry
  clever trick in tech (with examples)
  March 02, 2019
  price-discrimination segmentation pricing