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Leaving Cmder for Alacritty: 2020 Edition

Leaving Cmder for Alacritty: 2020 Edition

Since about 2017, I've been using Cmder [https://cmder.net/] almost daily as my console emulator of choice. There were a few key reasons why I gravitated towards it, and why it has stuck around for so long, but few issues have now led me elsewhere. Would I still recommend

Using pgRouting to Calculate Transit Catchment Areas

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Using pgRouting to Calculate Transit Catchment Areas

In order to show the effects of a grid vs loop and lollipop road network, I downloaded the GTFS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Transit_Feed_Specification] files for Ride On [https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-transit/] bus here [https://transitfeeds.com/p/montgomery-county-department-of-transportation/235]. These are simply txt files,

Streetmix, A Street Section Builder for Activists and Professionals Alike

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Streetmix, A Street Section Builder for Activists and Professionals Alike

Back in 2013, San Fransisco's Department of Public Works wanted to find ways to facilitate public feedback for the Second Street Improvement Project [https://www.codeforamerica.org/products/streetmix/]. Traditionally, planners have used paper cutouts and drawings to get feedback from the public, but this is time consuming, not very

Setting Up Scoop as a Windows Package Manager

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Setting Up Scoop as a Windows Package Manager

MacOS has Homebrew [https://brew.sh/]. Linux has APT [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool]. Windows sort of has OneGet [https://github.com/OneGet/oneget]. I dual-boot Linux on my desktop, but unfortunately that doesn't seem too feasible [https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/3w8du2/outofthebox_support_

Scraping Heroes of the Storm Competitive Information with Scrapy

Scraping Heroes of the Storm Competitive Information with Scrapy

I have previously written about my Glicko ratings of competitive Heroes of the Storm (HotS) teams [https://justjensen.co/rating-teams-in-heroes-of-the-storm/], and how I put that information into a SQLite database [https://justjensen.co/setting-up-sqlite-on-windows-10/]. Up to this point though, I have been entering all of this information manually. In order

Setting Up SQLite on Windows 10

I recently wrote a post on rating teams in Heroes of the Storm [https://justjensen.co/rating-teams-in-heroes-of-the-storm/] and used a regular CSV to store all the data for my ratings. To be honest, that worked perfectly fine although I have been hoping to do some more advanced analysis, particularly looking

Setting up Internet in a New Apartment

Setting up Internet in a New Apartment

I recently moved into a new apartment in New York City and decided this was a good time to set up a reliable and fast internet connection. Thanks to a mix of Ars Technica [http://arstechnica.com/], Google, and a short background as a lab manager that makes me far

Recreating FiveThirtyEight's Footer

FiveThirtyEight [https://fivethirtyeight.com]'s charts are some of the most memorable data visualizations in the world and several people have put a lot of effort into recreating their style. While FiveThirtyEight keeps their actual ggplot2 themes private, Max Woolf [http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/] and Austin Clemens [http:

MyKee Titanium Multi-Tool Key Review

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MyKee Titanium Multi-Tool Key Review

Imagine this situation: you just sat down at your desk. You just got your new BB-8 [http://store.sphero.com/products/bb-8-by-sphero] in the mail that you had to order to your work address because your significant other said you 'couldn't afford it'. Unrelated, you also have your credit card

3 Years Later: Leatherman Skeletool CX Review

3 Years Later: Leatherman Skeletool CX Review

Back in my freshman year of college, I noticed that a lot of the engineering students carried knives or multi-tools. What a lot of people (myself included at the time) don't necessarily know is that carrying a multi-tool is actually really handy. While it's true that every now and then

Installing a Strain Gauge

Recently in lab for my Mechanics of Solids class, our professor decided we should all know how to put a strain gauge on aluminum in case we ever need to use one for research or in our professional lives. A strain gauge works by measuring the change in resistance due