Blog

I write these things some­times, and you can read them.

Cultural col­lapse
What does it all mean?
Published August 15, 2024
Shaky writ­ing
How I am learn­ing to stop stress­ing and start writ­ing
Published June 3, 2024
Reflections 2022
Something blue, some­thing new.
Published January 1, 2023
How to ask ques­tions at grad vis­its
Qualitative re­search tips from a quan­ti­ta­tive re­searcher
Published December 26, 2022
The 600 Mile Marathon
Why I de­cided to run a marathon, and what I learned.
Published June 22, 2022
Why do I want to do a PhD?
(it’s the lux­u­ri­ous lifestyle and high salary)
Published June 14, 2022
So you want to build a high tech col­lege news­room
Some lessons learned at The Michigan Daily.
Published February 15, 2022
Reflections 2021
The end of the be­gin­ning.
Published January 4, 2022
Reflections 2020
Another year, an­other… year?
Published December 31, 2020
Understanding D3
A blog post
Published May 27, 2020
Modeling Moments so Dear
You could call this a mo­ment gen­er­at­ing func­tion, but you re­ally should­n’t
Published May 25, 2020
Reflections 2019
Another year in re­view
Published December 31, 2019
Matisse is a Team Player
Generating sto­ries from book cov­ers
Published July 26, 2019
Merry Belated Christmas
The much de­layed part 2 of nait­ian.hol­i­day fes­tiv­i­ties
Published July 7, 2019
April Showers
Some rainy day po­etry
Published April 20, 2019
Subtle Asian Meta
Going one step deeper
Published February 8, 2019
First Semester Reflections
Fall 2018 Wrap-Up
Published January 8, 2019
If You Start Playing…
Part 1 of nait­ian.hol­i­day fes­tiv­i­ties
Published January 6, 2019
Reflections 2018
Some thoughts on the past year (time flies)
Published December 31, 2018
Procrastination and Showering
I have a fi­nal soon.
Published December 18, 2018
Let it Snow
A Little Bookmarklet for the Winter
Published December 13, 2018
The Consequence Eradicator™
Unfortunately, our Conrad does­n’t have a soft British ac­cent.
Published December 12, 2018
Reflections 2017
Some thoughts on the past year
Published December 31, 2017
pur­ple.com: a brief eu­logy
Here's to the death of an era.
Published November 29, 2017
About this Site - The Terminal
How the “terminal” works.
Published May 26, 2017
Do My Friends Care About Me?
Yes. Yes, they do. At least, 22% of them.
Published April 15, 2017
The Blue Lagoon
The ex­cit­ing world of speech syn­the­sis
Published April 13, 2017
About this Site - Design
How I de­signed this site.
Published March 5, 2017
About this Site - Intro
A walk­through of how this site was built.
Published February 14, 2017
Fizz Buzz
A Fizz Buzz so­lu­tion and why too much think­ing is bad.
Published January 26, 2017
Getting Cozy with Jekyll
A quick guide to eas­ily gen­er­at­ing new Jekyll posts with Python and Mustache
Published January 14, 2017
Oops! and Why I Use Vim
A quick post on how and why I use vim.
Published January 9, 2017
New Year, New Blog, and New Bugs
A cou­ple of notes on the up­com­ing year.
Published January 1, 2017
Chrome Developer Tools
An in­tro­duc­tion to Chrome Developer Tools, orig­i­nally writ­ten for TJ Dev Club.
Published May 30, 2016