BOGO (Basically Optimal Graphics Ontology) is a lossless image compression format. BOGO derives its name from bogosort. Unlike traditional computationally-wasteful image formats that let your underutilized CPU sit around idle, BOGO maximizes your computer's time spent doing what it loves: computing.
Contrary to rumor, BOGO does not stand for Blockchain-Oriented …
Photos from the 2018 Howe Ridge fire in Glacier National Park
At 538, Benjamin Morris wrote kickers are forever. He presents a compelling case that kickers of all ages have been improving steadily at all distances since the 1960's.
I wanted to see if punters have done the same. Using play-by-play data from 2009 to 2017, I calculated how much of …
Here are some statistics on drone pilot activity in the US. I obtained all the data from publicly available sources on faa.gov. The data is current as of September 1, 2018. If this is interesting or you want more information, get in touch.
As of September …
Tom7 has an interesting video about portmanteaus. I took the idea to make a program to draw a graph as you move around nodes to shorten the lines (called edges) between them.
Here are some statistics on drone pilot activity in the US. I obtained all the data from publicly available sources on faa.gov. If this is interesting or you want more information, get in touch.
As of August 28 2018, there are at least 61,613 pilots …
Years ago I remember coming across a comment on edwardtufte.com about technical writing. I had forgotten exactly what it said, but remembered it was short, had a snappy title, and followed its own advice.
I discovered it again. The page at the original url is long gone, but the …
Photos from the 2018 Milwaukee air and water show
There are several models of Raspberry Pi with built-in wireless support. They
can be configured to connect to a wireless network before powering on, by
creating a file named wpa_supplicant.conf in the boot partition of your SD
card.
If you have your card properly configured, but the Pi won't …
Sphinx is a really useful tool, but one shortcoming is its markdown support. Specifically, it uses the recommonmark specification, which does not support tables. I wrote a Sphinx extension to render tables authored in markdown.
It can be installed via pip install sphinx-markdown-tables.
If you don't already have Sphinx configured …