For the Love of Suffering
ways to suffer, and not

My friend has a cool job helping people stay out of jail in Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA. That lofty mission, like so many these days, is underpinned by the lowly PDF form. I wanted to make her job easier by automating the extraction of data from those forms into a summary spreadsheet.

Even personal projects that make use of Google Cloud Run to minimize costs deserve CI. And they can get it!

To plot functions on the computer, you need to install a program called gnuplot. See the section below called Installing gnuplot for how to do that.

You’re talking with your wife one daaayyy… and realize that you could improve her life by letting her create printable calendars and importable ICS files for events she has to schedule. And that should be on the web, because while your wife is very smart, she is not very technical.

I like the dotplots that R + ggplot2 can make. There are lots of examples of this on the Internet. At least one is at r-bloggers, but Python is useful for many reasons, so I want to make a decent looking, chartjunk-free dotplot using matplotlib.