Mar 31, 2021 — Working in a National Lab vs. Academia — Whether you are a graduate student thinking of your first job, or a veteran wondering about the grass on the other side, you might have asked the question: What’s it like to be a research software engineer in a national... Read more

Mar 14, 2021 — My First Logic Program — Today I decided I wanted to write my first logic program. What the heck is a logic program, or (more appropriately) Answer Set Programming (ASP)? Let’s dive in! What is Answer Set Programming? When you use a package manager, how... Read more

Jan 29, 2021 — The Chonker Awards — How chonky are your repositories and files on GitHub? I have almost 600 repositories at this point, and I was genuinely curious. Could I put together a quick interface to find the chonkiest of the chonks across my GitHub code?... Read more

Jan 25, 2021 — A New Year — At the end of this month, I’m going to be leaving Stanford University, where I’ve been a student and then staff for almost ten years now. In this post, I’d like to reflect on the latter of those two, my... Read more