Work posts

Using Observable Framework on Windows WSL and quickly deploying to GitHub Pages

If you’ve got the framework installed, and just want to deploy the static pages, skip to below. Note - my first time doing this, but it works. You can always deploy directly to Observable. Observable Framework is not supported on Windows, according to an issue in their GitHub. (Update Mar 2024: Observable Framework is now supported on Windows). To use it, you need to use WSL. If you want to use it through WSL, then the following still applies. Fortunately, it is very easy to do. Steps I had to take to do this: ...

February 16, 2024 · 4 min

Monday links

- Whenever I do analyses I am nervous about being wrong, but using Excel’s autofill function to impute data would have definitely been on my “this is not correct to do,” at the very least. - Nice example of a personal project. Contained, clear output, and interesting to the person doing it + delightful to play with and generate maps as a person who has no use for it. It’s fun! - Helpful and clear description of how XSS (cross site scripting) vulnerabilities work and can be identified. ...

February 12, 2024 · 2 min

Friday Links

- A series of YouTube videos on how “practical effects” in movies are highlighted by directors, actors, and viewers, but actually are building blocks to extremely realistic computer generated visual effects. I didn’t even realize much of what he showed was technically possible: it makes sense that performing a stunt in real life can give VFX artists valuable information about how it should look when it is computer generated, but the fact that oftentimes the stunt itself is replaced with CGI is astounding; see, for instance, the Top Gun: Maverick replacement jets. ...

February 10, 2024 · 2 min