I am justin. i do data + software. mostly interested in whatever is eating my brain at the time—usually something in the venn of open source, emacs, applied math/stats, catholic or chinese history (poetry too), and just… media in general.
Background
Education
business undergrad (fsu), decision sciences grad (st. joe’s). most of my thesis-y brain cycles went to optimizing educational outcomes through decision theory. think: stats + apis for education admin & government.
Work
was doing BI + production support at ADM post-grad. now i ghostwrite code for startups, mostly via direct lines—no public consulting funnel or anything. i pick up new stacks and domains fast
Technical
tools are tools. if it works, i’ll use it. i’ve aged out of tech tribalism. still, postgres supremacy. everything i spin up ends up back on it eventually.
This site
glued together with my own fork of PaperModX—called it PaperModulo bc i like bad puns and functional metaphors. all the content is org-mode, bc my life already lives in emacs (org-agenda, org-noter, etc). the build process is ox-hugo. still cheating with jupyter + vscode when i don’t feel like fighting the editor war that day.
hugo’s mid, honestly. no idea how long i’ll stick with it.
Using
desktop main. laptops feel like punishment. maybe i’d suck at consulting for that reason alone. linux user (duh). tiling WMs go hard. dotfiles here..
TODO: more details here.
Media Consumption
Watching
tv + movies tracked via trakt.tv used to want letterboxd but the api’s a walled garden now. i forget to update things manually so that’s a no-go.
anime/manga on anilist
Listening
music? not a ton. last.fm. the embed is a spotify playlist, spotify:
- rateyourmusic.com - not used a ton.