My Hobbies and Tinkering Projects

Soccer team celebrating victory, holding a trophy, wearing medals, with fireworks in background.

Soccer

Manchester City is the greatest premier league team, full stop. I grew up watching them get beat up every weekend by the “older brother” in derbies with Manchester United, so I unabashedly support their success after being the underdog for so many years.

Raspberry Pi computer with a cartoon raspberry logo overlayed on top.

Raspberry Pi

I have a few side projects using these compact, credit-card sized computers. I’ve made an ad-blocker on my home network (PiHole), a NAS Server (Plex), and a video game emulator for all the fun games I played in the 90s as a kid (RetroPie).

Screenshot of a computer screen showing a Python code editor with a script calculating string permutations, along with a sidebar describing the 'print' function, and a file explorer on the left with various project folders and files.

Python

Data Science has always had a gravitational pull on me. I find that turning ugly, unorganized, and difficult to discern data into simple but illustrative graphs is an art that can really make an impact. I’ve built dashboards for personal finance, stock tracking, and a local tool to help me perform data manipulation. Python is well-equipped for data analysis and is of regular use in my toolbox.