I created a new blog category and now have a series of at least 6 blog posts on computer setup over at least 8 years. Here are the other posts: https://thekeesh.com/category/computer-setup/ Here was my set up and notes for setting up a new computer. This was a Macbook Air (M2, 2022), 24GB ram. For me … Continue reading Setting up a computer, Macbook Air M2, 2022
I recently tested positive for covid and tried to keep a detailed log of the tests, results, and symptoms I had so I could see if I learned anything from it. Here is the data. I mark day 0 as the first day of a positive test. When I say “Rapid” here I mean Antigen/at-home … Continue reading Covid test log
It’s not a new idea but I think the development of events has caused us to rationalize a horrifying level of incompetence and deaths which are preventable, and have been prevented in many other countries around the world that are not acting idiotically. From the attacks on 9/11 about 3,000 people died. As I write … Continue reading Trump’s Actions on Coronavirus are Criminal
I got to spend about a week in Mexico traveling with my brother, we did a few days in Cancun and a few days in Tulum. Here are a few notes from the trip and some places to go. We stayed both in the Cancun centro and in the hotel zone– the hotel zone is … Continue reading Notes from Mexico — Cancun and Tulum
Notes from Japan I spent about a week in Japan, which was the last stop on my trip. Right away you notice the trains. It’s a train culture. It seems to be one of the most effective train systems, both within Tokyo and intercity among other Japanese cities. I walked around and one of the first … Continue reading Notes from Japan
Heard on a podcast interview with Derek Sivers the idea of a ‘now’ page, sharing a bit of what you are up to now, sort of a variant of the ‘about’ page. So I put a now page together on my blog at thekeesh.com/now. What I wonder about for the currently 1942 people who are … Continue reading A Now Page
In an earlier post, I wrote about how I do very, very lightweight deployment with git. I found myself doing this over and over again, so here is a little script that does it for you. Now getting your local code on your server is as easy as: server$ python create_repo.py repo.git /your/checkout/directory/ local$ git … Continue reading An Easier Way to Set Up Remote Git Repositories for Lightweight Deployment
There were a ton of comments here telling me that the Facebook bookmarklet that I made broke, and this happened because Facebook changed the name of the file they were using. I’ve updated the post, so the bookmarklet there should work now. Continue reading Facebook Friends Ranking Bookmarklet Works Again
There is this big thing on the internet these days where computer people write essays. And its weird because these people are supposed to be techie people, you know, they just code and talk about binary, not write essays. But a very large genre seems to be emerging on the web which is the sort … Continue reading Hackers with Opinions
I just did a research project for my CS224N class where we tried to predict the gender of different Facebook statuses. We also made a fun tool that will generate typical male and female Facebook statuses. Check out our research here. Continue reading Predicting Gender of Facebook Statuses
