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Daily Blog - September 2, 2026

#_daily-blog-Tue-Sep-01-2026

Daily Blog - September 1, 2026

Today I managed to get a few things done and have some fun. It was a school day, so I got the kids to school in the morning. After that I went to the store and ran a couple errands. Then I did some dishes and made hot dogs for lunch. I filled the sink with more dishes, expecting to come back and finish them, but never got around to it. I finished reading chapter 7 of ISLR, and even got the kids homework done in the evening!

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Daily Blog - August 31, 2026

Today is the last day of August, and I’m still nobody and nowhere. ^_^

#_daily-blog-Tue-Aug-18-2026

Daily Blog - August 18, 2026

Today I finished up my writeup and code for the Data Bowl. Yeah, the project ended a bit ago, but I hadn’t had the time to fully write up and post the code yet. But all that has changed! It’s up! Right now! Check it out! here!!!!!!

#_daily-blog-Thu-Aug-13-2026

Todo today:

• ISLR
• Strang
• Goldstein
• Marsbound
• Flipper
• OpenVoiceMod
• Dishes
• Octopath
• Helldivers
• Call doctoros
• Setup Thunderbird
• Fix server

Daily Blog - August 13, 2026

Today I worked on…

First, after starting the day, I went to Walmart to pick up some stuff to make for lunch. I ended up getting a shwarma from Dude’s Chicken in Niles. I got the spicy garlic, and it was extra spicy! Yum!

After I got back, I spent an hour working on my blog some more. Mostly just trying to get caught up with my posts, and get started on this one. I then went through my projects and updated them. I managed to finish with the Mixie Melts project. Hopefully by the end of the weekend I’ll have everything ready for the prime-time. Yussss.

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Daily Blog - August 12, 2026

Today I woke up pretty early and started my day way before normal. I wish I could go to bed in time to do that more often.

So I started off the day working on my blogging. It’s gotten backlogged. I can never really find time during my “days off” to sit down and do anything. There’s always a billion errands to run and places to go and things to do.

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Daily Blog - August 11, 2026

esp32 e-Paper Project

Finally got the e-paper display for a project I want to work on. Tried wiring it up to an ESP32 a few times, and it wasn’t working. Turns out I had the wrong board selected in the ArduinoIDE. After that, I had the wiring backwards because I was holding the board upside down. To be fair, the case is upside down like that lol.

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Daily Blog - August 10, 2026

Did laundry in pieces like always lol

Read and finally got the Lagrangian derivation from D’lambert’s

Started working on my e-ink project. Robin even 3-d printed me a case for the ESP32! It’s in this cool red-blue depending on where you look at it filament.

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Daily Blog - August 9, 2026

Played outside w/Milo

made musabis and loco moco

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Daily Blog - August 8, 2026

We tried to go out sparking this morning, but I don’t think we actually took any orders, just shopped for ourselves.

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Daily Blog - August 7, 2026

Today I did plasma, tried the Jalapeno Whopper, and listened to a bit more of the QM lectures. I’ll eventually get to the QM books and see what’s up. Right now I’m working through Classical Mechanics, ISLR (which is statistics), and then DiffEq / LinAlg through Strang.

QM Lecture

This lecture was about the history of QM and the experiments that made it inevetible. It was really neat to think about the standard model and all the consequences of it.

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Daily Blog - August 6, 2026

Spirit Halloween

ThatNateGuyOnYoutube posted from the Boardman Spirit yesterday! So we went to check it out and see if we could find any stickers. Sadly, we made it too late for any stickers. However, we still had a pretty good tiem.

Portfolio and Blogging

I spent some time working on my portfolio next. If someone actually looks into my projects on my resume, I want them to see something that makes sense. Mostly just tried fixing some formatting issues and adding navigation links in the blog.

#_daily-blog-Wed-Aug-05-2026

Daily Blog - August 5, 2026

Classical Mechanics

Today I read some more of Goldstein to get caught up to the lectures I’ve been following. I made it all the way through multiparticle systems, and up next is constraints and the Lagrangian. Woo!

ISLR

I got into ISLR some as well. I went over smoothing splines and how to create and use them. Smoothing splines are pretty interesting: instead of forcing smoothness through adding an $Ax+Bx^2+Cx^3$ term, we use

#_daily-blog-Tue-Aug-04-2026

Daily Blog - August 4, 2026

Daily Summary - if you can’t do more just do this.

Classical Mechanics

On Yoob Toob

I watched some more of the lectures on classical mechanics while doing the dishes and making food today. He went over the same stuff Goldstein started on, fleshing out the framework of classical mechanics: $\vec{r}$, $\vec{v}$, $\vec{a}$, $m$, etc. One really cool thing he did though, was looked at the “Aristotlian mechanics” in some detail. By this, I mean a system where the first law is $F=m\vec{v}$! So I want to go over that and see what the reults of it might be.

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Daily Blog - August 3, 2026

Spirit Halloween!

Spirit Halloween opened today, so of course I took the boyos! We saw a lot of cool animatronics and props!

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They finally make a lime-green jumping spider! My favorite color!

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There were plushies from hazbin hotel.

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My favorite new animatronics were the Carnival Creeper (based on an old animatronic called the Night Crawler)

#_daily-blog-Sun-Aug-02-2026

Daily Blog - August 2, 2026

Today I didn’t really record anything. I did a lot, though! I managed to take all my medicines, which is a habit I’ve been trying to make. After that I made chicken sandwiches while washing some dishes. While I was, I put on a video about Classical Mechanics on Youtube.

Classical Mechanics

The video discussed a couple interesting things. Since it’s day 1, it’s not gotten very far. He starts with as simple of a system he can think of: a coin sitting on a table. It’s heads up, and never changes. So there’s only one state in that system. Pretty boring. He then described a system with two states! This coin can FLIP. So for any “time step” you would flip the coin. The system now looks like

#_daily-blog-Sat-Aug-01-2026

Daily Blog - August 1, 2026

Today was mostly a lazy Saturday. Went to the stores and then just hung out at home. If I take any notes I’ll do them here though.

I am really enjoying the elvish shell! It’s been pretty neat so far. I still want to convert my scripts to it entirely, and it’s been fun. I think some of it is just learning stuff about interactive shells in general and how they work.

#_daily-blog-Fri-Jul-31-2026

Daily Blog - July 31, 2026

Today we planned on going out Sparking but didnt’ wake up in time. So we just went to the Drs appointment at 10. Then we went to the store, and now we’re home, and I’m reading more ISLR~!

After that I went to donate plasma.

Then I cooked dinner. Chicken parm and spaghet. It’s easy. After eating dinner I played some Helldivers.

ISLR Notes

7.4 Regression Splines

Now we are going to explore a pretty neat, flexable class of basis functions that builds upon the polynomial regression and piecewise constant regression approaches we already learned.

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Daily Blog - July 30, 2026

Today I applied for a couple jobs. After that I worked on my portfolio some more. It’s almost ready for the limelight! That’s pretty awesome. After that I did some dishes, and after that I read some ISLR. Then I went for a walk around the duck pond with the family. After that I just relaxed and watched some TV with the family.

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Daily Blog - July 21, 2026

Today I am going to try doing this blogging thing again. It seems like a fun little journal attempt.

Portfolio and Blog Updates

I’m spending some time this morning working on updating my portfolio items in my blog. I worked on updating my bookclub bot and the diels-alder reaction write-ups. There’s a couple left to do, but it’s looking good to me!

Dishes and Lunch

I managed to make some headway on the dishes. I only made cereal for lunch because we’re out of waffle mix, which is what M wanted. It was still good though. I don’t usually eat cereal.

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Someday a Daily Blog - May 18, 2026

Quantum Computing

My cousin asked me to write about quantum computing. He’s a programmer and is interested in learning. I am a phycist and have been interested in quantum computing for a long time. I plan on, by the end of the series, have built a working quantum computer (simulator) and have a good understanding of how it works.

Stern-Gerlach Experiment

Today, I am going to begin by writing about the Stern-Gerlach experiment. This is a famous experiment that was performed in the early 20th century. In the experiment, a beam of silver atoms is passed through a magnetic field. The magnetic field causes the atoms to split into two beams,

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Daily Blog - February 17, 2026

I’m not the best at blogging right now. I really would like to do more, but when push comes to shove I just end up playing games and reading.

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Daily Blog - February 9, 2026

Today was a pretty good day. I woke up feeling stuffy and the kids had a two hour delay for school, so we all slept in a bit. I have a bit of a cold, but other than that I’m feeling okay.

Portfolio and Blog Work

I spent some time working on this today. I want to get all the portfolio items fleshed out and finished up so they’re presentable. The newer portfolio stuff will have a lot more data, and will be updated continuously as I work on projects. The blog will be updated more frequently as well, and will include more details about my day to day work and life.

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Daily Blog - January 30 2026

Today was Milo’s birthday! We had a great day celebrating with him. We went to Fun City and played for a couple of hours. Then we had an Oreo cake and some Spam Musabis for dinner. Milo got money for some VR games and had a great day.

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Daily Blog - January 10, 2026

Happy New Year! Finally got the health tracker bit done! For now! There’s always room for improvement. But I like this so far.

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Daily Blog - December 27, 2025

Today I didn’t spend much time logging, but I did work on my portfolio. I think it’s coming along nicely. The new design is fun, and I like the health / activity tracker alot. I’ve always wanted to keep better track of my time and health. Hopefully this helps!

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Daily Blog - December 25, 2025

Today is Christmas! Fun fun. My family and I had a great time opening presents and enjoying a delicious breakfast together. The kids were especially excited about their gifts. After breakfast, we spent time playing games and watching movies. It was a relaxing time.

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Daily Blog - December 23, 2025

Early Morning Musings

This morning I had some free time so I decided to just have some thoughts.

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There it is doctor! A thought!

My Favorite Equation

When I was an undergraduate student during math tutoring someone asked me what my favorite equation was. I thought about it for a moment and then replied “The Distance Forumla”. They looked at me confused. Why would I like such a simple formula? Isn’t it just the Pythagorean Theorem? Well yes, but it’s also so much more. The distance formula is the basis for the concept of a metric space, which is a fundamental idea in modern mathematics. It allows us to define the distance between points in a space. In Euclidean space, the distance formula is given by the Pythagorean theorem:

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Daily Blog - December 22, 2025

Yesterday I forgot to write a post, but I didn’t really do much other than play Slay the Spire some more and look at some food/upc databases.

UPC databases

So there are a few problems with the food database so far. First, the government database is hard to search. You’d have to find the brand and general product, then search through a list of variants to find the exact one you want. This is tedious and time-consuming. I think I can implement a kind of fuzzy search on top of that to make it easier. Another issue is that the UPC / barcode data is not centralized at all. Any company can stick any UPC on any product, so there is no guarantee that the UPC will actually correspond to the product you think it does. This is a big problem for a food logging app, since you want to be sure that the data you are logging is accurate. There’s a really small NLP library in javascript called ‘compromise’ that I might be able to use to do some fuzzy matching on product names to help with this.

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Daily Blog - December 19, 2025

Today was a day off the job search and spent some quality time with Rob. After dropping Milo off at school, we went out Sparking for two orders and hung out in the car. We then stopped at Speedway for a few snacks and drinks for breakfast. After that we went to Target and got a couple christmas presents for the boys.

Portfolio Update: Food Chart in Blog Posts

I added a food chart to my blog posts to keep track of what I eat daily. This will help me monitor my diet and make healthier choices. I pass the food data as a list in the front matter of each blog post, and it gets rendered as a chart in the post.

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Daily Blog - December 20, 2025

Today I worked on adding a food chart to my blog posts

Portfolio Update: Food Chart in Blog Posts

I spent some time working on the food chart features. If I use the FDA API, it’s free but the search is lacking to say the least. I can’t even figure out how to search by UPC code.

Slay the Spire

Today I also started playing a game called “Slay the Spire”. It’s a deck-building roguelike game where you climb a spire by battling enemies using a deck of cards you build as you go. It’s really fun. I’m thinking of writing a bot to play the game. The whole game is keyboard-playable and turn based, so it should be possible to write a bot that can play it.

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Daily Blog - December 17, 2025

Image to ASCII Converter in JavaScript

Today I am adding an Image to ASCII converter to my portfolio theme. This tool will turn my images into ASCII art, which will fit perfectly with my terminal-themed portfolio.

I found a couple javascript libraries, one was only available via npm, which I didn’t want to have to add to my hugo site. The other library created a canvas element to print the image to, but I want it to be pure html text. So I made my own simple implementation.

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Daily Blog - December 5, 2025

Gemini Kaggle Competition

Gemini has teamed up with Kaggle to host a competition focused on building something useful for everyday life that leverages Gemini’s capabilities. The goal is to create an application that can help users in their daily routines by utilizing advanced AI features.

I want to build an application that searches through all the local grocery store ads and websites to find the best prices for a shopping list, and even allows meal planning based on current deals. This would help users save money and time.

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Daily Blog - December 4, 2025

This morning, the kids woke up really early. They were up before me. M keeps saying he wants to wake up earlier so he has more time to play before school. He’s doing it himself. He also is getting better at dressing himself and brushing his hair. It’s nice to see him becoming more independent.

After dropping the kids off at school, I went to the store to pick up a few things. After I got home, I relaxed a bit then made lunch. I had a bacon lettuce wrap. It was pretty good.

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Daily Blog - December 3, 2025

Welcome to my daily blog and another day of working on projects, exploring new ideas and applying for jobs. Today started a little bit later than I hoped, but the kids cooperated and we managed to get to school on time. After dropping them off, I went home and started working on my job applications. After that, I went to the fitness center for a quick workout. I’m trying to get back into a regular fitness routine, so I did a light jog for about 30 minutes. After my workout, I made some bean burritos for lunch, which turned out pretty good.

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A Snow Day

So, I’m going to try keeping up with this as the day goes on. Maybe there’s less crap to forget. idk. I had this idea at 4pm already so It is kinda already too late. Also, today was a snow day so I didn’t have much time to do anything since I was watching the kids all day. Every dish I cleaned was dirty as soon as I cleaned it. No net progress was made on the housework.

#_A new bloggening 2

Day of bloggening 2

Hello! I’m still trying to figure out how to juggle productivity and life. It’s like if one thing happens I can’t do anything else. Then the backlogs start up. Then everything falls apart and hurts. Today, for example. Everything got too bad because rent came out and I cant even work on anything or apply ofr anything or do anything at all because of it. I wish I had some fucking stability to work on my portfoliois and blogs and readings. But, alas, that will never be the case. I’m not sure how to square that circle. There aren’t even enough hours in the day for me to do what is required just to live, so I’ll never accomplish more. idk

#_Day Tree

Third time’s a charm

Hello! This is my third blog post in a series of making them each day! Yay! Today I didn’t really get a ton done. I managed to apply for a few jobs, but the portfolio and everything isn’t even close to ready yet so idk how that’s going to be. They’ll probably just look at it and laugh at me lol. It happens.

Today at drop-off Milo walked in without any hesitation. I was a bit worried because of the long weekend with Thanksgiving, but he did it! Proud of him for going to school this year.

#_A new bloggening

Day 1: A new bloggening

Welcome to my blog! This is my first post in a long time, and I hope to be the start of a trend. I’ve heard journaling regularly is good for mental stability, and I want to give it a try. Hopefully I’ll have interesting things to say!

So, let’s start with what I did today. We started the day a little later than we had hoped, so we didn’t get to Spark at all. Instead, we went drove around a bit. While driving, we found the exact toy that we were looking for for christmas! On sale! Within driving distance! It was pretty exciting. After that, we went home and I made lunch. I then played some video games (Mortal Kombat then Helldivers).

#_TheSushiRevolving

Today we drove an hour out to Cleveland-ish to eat some conveyor belt sushi! It was delicious. I probably ate way too much. My tummy is still full. 12 hours later! Geeze.

#_Starting

Hello world!

I’m back! And going to try to start blogging about whatever I feel like, when I feel like it. (At least once a day, about the day) So, let’s start with today!

P.S. I should take pictures to put on here maybe?

Walmart trip 1

So, after dropping Grayson off at school, I went to the store to pick up a couple things. Food and such. Walmart has gotten way more crowded. I think they pushed the asiles closer together to fit more in the store. This makes the asiles much more cramped. You can’t walk past another cart anymore. It’s pretty annoying.

#_TOMARS

I’ve had an idea for decades now bouncing around in my head. I loved everything put out on MS Paint Adventures, from Bard’s tale to Homestuck. I liked the idea of readers having an influence on what happens next in the story; that the author would have to adjust and adapt the story based on the user input. Kinda like a real-time democratic choose your own adventure book. I want to make something like that, but inside a video game. I’ve been throwing ideas at the wall, trying to see what would stick to make this dream a reality. Well, I think the idea has finally hatched.

#_Creating A Game In Pure Go

I’m going to participate in the Github Game-Off this year! But with some interesting aspects, to make it more fun! This time, I’m going to build the whole game in Go!

But Jerry! You already maintain a pretty awesome game engine in go! Why don’t you just use that!

You misunderstand! I’m going to make EVERYTHING in go. Of course, engo will be there! But I’m going to create all the textures using gg, programatically! I’m also going to create all the sound effects (and possibly music depending on how good I get at it) using GoAudio! I’m going to open-source the project, so people can see that everything is made in Go! I also plan on updating this blog with progress and things I learn along the way!

#_Duck

Today I ate a duck.

#_JsAnimateImages

Animate an html image element with a little js and a webworker!

#_Building my own http Client

Building an http client from scratch!

#_Engo Testing

Testing Systems for engo

#_Helloworld

Hello everyone!