All posts for : John Clemens: Mostly Harmless

Goodbye GitHub, Hello GitLab

So GitHub is reportedly being bought by Microsoft. I already had a few issues with GitHub, such as their reported toxic business culture and the fact the service code itself wasn’t open source when so many others are, so combine this with the fact I don’t like or …

Publications and Research

It’s been a while since I updated this blog, so lets do it. First, I’ve managed to get a few more publications. First, at work, we posted a paper on Maat to arXiv, and we have two more papers under consideration for MILCOM 2018. These are related to …

New homepage

So it’s finally time I re-did my website and make it a bit nicer than the simple site I had before. This new site id built using the Pelican static site generator, and it seems to work pretty well. Over time, I’ll fill in a lot of the …

PBS: Faces of America

If you can get past the obvious camp, and the host trying to make himself out to be the best thing that’s ever happened to these celebrities, it’s actually quite fascinating. And of course, anything with Colbert is always fun.

Available for free online.

http://www.pbs.org …

Hacking

So it appears someone tried to hack the blog. Some users registered themselves who didn’t exist. I knew it was a hack attempt because no one in their right mind would register for this blog. So I removed all registered users (both of you). If I removed someone by …

Wooden Handrail

While the wife spent a week in England last month, I decided to fix one of those nagging thing about the house that’s been bugging us since we moved in.  The stairs to the second floor never had a hand railing.  The home inspector poited out that it wasn …

Daily Compound Interest Spreadsheet

As a followup to my last post, here is the spreadsheet I use to calculate how much interest I’ve accrued based on when my payment will be applied. Remember to add in 2-3 business days from when you actually submit your payment online until it goes through.

Put your …

Citibank Student Loans and Daily Compound Interest

My wife has significant student loan debt from her time in law school. Not only was she paying tuition, but she had to pay living expenses to live in NY for three years, all paid for with loans. While I was really starting to track our finances, I began taking …