Programming

Thoughts and experiences on becoming a Django developer.

Ever need to compare two pieces of text? There's an easy way to do it in VSCode.

Using Bash to quickly convert filenames into metadata.

How I teach R to novices.

A simple Ruby script for parsing a CSV into JSON.

Using Bash to automate adding content to Omeka.

Create great-looking PDFs from Markdown with Pandoc and LaTeX.

An overview for getting started with D3.

A simple script for parsing a CSV with Ruby and counting values.

Extracting PDF highlights to markdown with AppleScript.

Sublime Text supports lorem ipsum by default.

An improved Ruby-based web scraper.

A few scripts I'm using to automate some tasks.

A jQuery script for creating pop-up footnotes.

My open access book on Ruby programming for historians.

Programming is about solving problems.

A simple Ruby-based text tokenizer.

I spend a lot of time at the CLI. Might as well tweet from it.

Some improvements to my word tokenizer.

The Rubyist Historian: Creating our first program!

The Rubyist Historian: Introduction to recursion and other random things.

The Rubyist Historian: Working with inputs and outputs.

The Rubyist Historian: Introduction to arrays and hashes.

The Rubyist Historian: An introduction to loops and controls.

The Rubyist Historian: Introducing Ruby classes and methods.

The Rubyist Historian: How to get started with Ruby.

The Rubyist Historian: An introduction to the series.

Here's how a historian learned to be a programmer.

A simple word tokenizer written in Ruby.