Archive of posts from 2019

• Compressing All Git Repositories On Your Machine 27 June 2019
  • bash
  • git
  • linux
  • shell
  • tutorial

  So I recently felt the need to compress all the git repositories on my machine. This was mainly because I wanted to reduce the number of files I had to wait to backup. So here’s the commands I used to make that happen.

• Disabling YouTube is an Interesting Experience 24 June 2019
  • android
  • mental-health
  • youtube

  I recently disabled the YouTube app on my phone. It’s a very interesting feeling not being able to quickly pull up some mildly entertaining video as quickly on demand. It’s crazy how much YouTube I watched before I did this, and it’s crazy how much I want to open it any time I’m bored. I haven’t caved yet, and I don’t plan to. Overall I noticed the following feelings and improvements in my mood.

• Incrementing a Semantic Version String in Bash 30 April 2019
  • bash
  • snippet
  • tutorial

  I wrote a bash function that takes a semantic version string and bumps the version number. It supports all 3 layers. I needed it for the deploy script I was working on. It’s fairly trivial, I just thought I would share it.

• Building the Lottery Data Viz 02 April 2019
  • data-visualization
  • lottery
  • tutorial
  • web-scraping

  I previously posted a lottery data visualization in which I attempted to correlate how often a certain number came up in the PA lottery given that some other number came up. I built the visualization using Python, SQLite, and Chart.JS on the front end. Since, I like sql I’ll about the queries and methods used. These methods could probably be massively improved, but I did it in a couple of hours, because I was bored.

• Pa Lottery Data Viz Tool 20 March 2019
  • data-visualization
  • interactive
  • lottery
  • sqlite
  • statistics

  In this post, I provide access to a data visualizer for the Pennsylvania lottery using data I pull regularly from their RSS feed. This tool uses SQLite and some scripts to automatically pull data to this post which is then visualized using Chart.js. I created histograms of the most common drawn numbers for the drawings in which a particular number appears, and you can see that visualized below in the charts.

• Review of Antergos Linux 25 January 2019
  • distro
  • linux
  • reviews

  I’ve recently been running Antergos Linux a derivative of Arch Linux on my Thinkpad w540. I have to say that Antergos is a much better version of Arch and has some significant polish on the system, especially over many other much bigger distributions. I previously tried Arch in the past, but had to stop when updates kept breaking my system because I didn’t update my machine often enough (It was at home while I was at college).

• My Relative Credit Card Spend 03 January 2019
  • analysis
  • credit-cards
  • data-visualization
  • programming
  • r-lang

  I’ve had a credit card now for about 2 years, so I thought I would make a cool visualization that shows my relative spend through out the year on a daily basis. I think this plot came out to be relatively cool.