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now - january 2025

·2 mins· from kansas city

This is my now page - it's what I'd tell my friends if they asked me, "What are you up to right now?"
If you have your own site, you should have one too!

writing a little #

I wrote a handful of blog posts recently:

  • a /recs page that shares some of my favourite bookmarks that I’ve recommended to folks
  • a longstanding backburnered idea about the ideal “beginner book” for learning sports analytics and data science programming.
  • a quick transcription of a DSLC.io Slack answer on how to read Netlify deploy logs and figure out how to fix a bug.

I’ve enjoyed writing again. I’d like to do more of it this year - here are a few drafts I’ve started:

  • a post on R projects being optimally structured as packages
  • a post on how to set up python for reticulate & dockerized usage
  • a post about aviator-co/av and stacked git branches

getting active again #

Over the Christmas break I swam a few times at the local pool, and enjoyed it enough to try and build a habit for it. Working towards an hour a day of steady state swimming, which currently amounts to about 2,000m of breaststroke each session. I’m also continuing to play casual assorted sports once a week and added a few weekly sessions of volleyball as well.

Trying to build up good habits and streaks again. If I get the steady state swim thing down regularly for a couple more weeks I’d like to add 3-4 sessions a week of lifting as well, see if I can manage consistent two-a-days.

travelling soon #

I have a trip planned to visit Kansas City and Houston at the end of the month, aiming to visit a friend, go to the AFC Championship Game, do some flex-work, and attend the new American Soccer Insights conference at Rice on Jan 31st!