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Published Sep 29, 2024 by Alik Ulmasov

For the past few years, I’ve run a home server for fun. I occasionally get questions about it, so I’ve decided to jot down how...

#javascript

Published May 21, 2023 by Alik Ulmasov

This post is a step-by-step guide to building this from scratch. If you want to just get started quickly, please see the Github Page. Have...

#linux

Published Sep 27, 2022 by Alik Ulmasov

I recently tried to make my fans quieter in an old computer which I’ve repurposed to be a home server (running Ubuntu Server). This computer...

#python

Published Oct 27, 2019 by Alik Ulmasov

To help name my coworkers babies, I wrote this script. It works as follows: Popularity: This is done via a beta distribution. An alpha parameter...

#python

Published Jun 9, 2019 by Alik Ulmasov

Are you somebody who likes the latest and greatest apps for productivity? Perhaps this is not for you. I didn’t really like the calendar apps...

#geography #python

Published Dec 2, 2018 by Alik Ulmasov

You can find the code for this on my Github. I walk through it there. How can we make maps by travel-time, rather than distance?...

#python

Published Oct 28, 2017 by Alik Ulmasov

I’m a big fan of the BBC show University Challenge. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have much of an online fanbase. For example, the subreddit...

#R

Published Jun 3, 2017 by Alik Ulmasov

Connecting to the Yahoo Fantasy Baseball API is tricky business. If you’ve found this post, you may have also found this post by Ryan Kuhn,...

#geography #R

Published Apr 15, 2017 by Alik Ulmasov

In my last post, I mentioned that I was interested in exploring the mapping capabilities of ggplot2. Well, shortly after I wrote that, I was...