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How to Set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL and React
Figuring out how to set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL, and React can be a complex task, especially if you, like me, don’t really code much nowadays. The boilerplate effort around configuring these technologies is often the first thing I forget with each re-immersion. This article serves as a reminder for how to kickstart aContinue reading “How to Set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL and React”
ProjectSHERPA: a startup retrospective
Over several years, while fully employed, some friends and I built a startup with whatever time we could scrape together. ProjectSHERPA was an imagining of what the tech recruiting marketplace could be – a data-enabled web platform for finding, screening, and recruiting entry-level technology talent. Virtually everyone in the space agrees that finding and recruitingContinue reading “ProjectSHERPA: a startup retrospective”
Can Yelp Reviews Predict Real Estate Prices?
I took a Data Science class in my MBA program, and I was recently re-reading our final project write-up. The assignment was to take a complex data set, do some analysis on it, and show the results. My group decided to focus on NYC real estate. We boldly set out to try to use subjectively important variablesContinue reading “Can Yelp Reviews Predict Real Estate Prices?”
A Side Project
My track record for posting here has been pretty poor the past 2 years. It’s tough to find time to write something interesting, let alone think up something interesting to write. I want to try and write more, as, dammit, I have interesting stuff to say! Or if nothing else, I can come back hereContinue reading “A Side Project”
The Last 5 Years & Earlier Stuff
There is something special about Jason Robert Brown‘s musical, The Last 5 Years. We performed this at Dartmouth in 2004, and 8 years later, it’s still one of my go-to scores if I want to relax at the piano. In fact, I still hear new things in the music. And the music is quite difficult:Continue reading “The Last 5 Years & Earlier Stuff”
Saintly Music
I’ve spent some time lately converting my old audio and video tapes to digital formats – things like family videos, concerts, etc… One of the tapes I found contains a live performance of my first legitimate musical composition, a piece I wrote for AP Music, senior year of high school. I wrote the piece forContinue reading “Saintly Music”
Unpacking Kozmo Jones
I’ve been holding onto this since 2006: a children’s poem about two of my now-gone dogs, Kozmo Jones and Angel. I sent this to several publishers back then, but no one wanted it – responses were mostly that it wasn’t the right fit. It feels weird to post it here, but better leave it hereContinue reading “Unpacking Kozmo Jones”
GeoDate
When Android first came out, there was no mobile version of match.com or Facebook. In turn, I thought, wouldn’t be cool if there was a location-based profile matching application for the phone? And so the idea of GeoDate was born. Each user gets an associated profile describing basic attributes about themselves as well as theContinue reading “GeoDate”
Bored with (Bulletin) Boards
Several years ago, I became somewhat obsessed with the idea that certain forms of digital communication mediums were lagging in their evolution relative to others. You would need Silverlight to view this, but this page demos a proof of concept of one of my attempts at improving electronic bulletin boards (aka message forums). Here’s theContinue reading “Bored with (Bulletin) Boards”
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