Wastewater sampling is one of the few available unbiased indicators of community prevalence of COVID-19 in Vancouver. @YVRCovidPlots is a community service that shares plots made from Metro Vancouver data to help present recent wastewater sampling in historical context.

The time had come to rebuild my (circa 2014) VPS, which was running Ubuntu 18.04 and couldn’t be upgraded further. Inspired by glyph’s A Tired Raccoon’s Containerization Manifesto, I decided to try to push as much as I can into containers. Here are a few notes about things I learned on the way.

Once upon a time, I created a whole lot of gmail labels that I don’t use anymore. I wanted to clean those up in anticipation of Inbox going away. There are a lot of outdated examples for creating a Google API client application, so I wanted to capture the form of the “modern” solution I found.

Google and others contribute TLS certificates to Certificate Transparency logs as they crawl the web, but there is less systematic effort devoted to discovering certificates from secure, non-HTTPS protocols. I searched the Rapid7 “More SSL” scan log for novel certificates and contributed them to CT logs.

I participate in a vegan cook-off with some friends once a month and I was happy with how my recipe came together for this month’s Pie-Off, so I thought I’d share!

Yesterday was Open Data BC’s Open Data Day Hackathon, which was a great chance to learn about civic data sets and spend some hacking on them with data nerds and subject matter experts from the city and province.

Inspired by Alex Gaynor’s “So You Want To Write An Interpreter?” PyCon talk, I decided I wanted to try to write an interpreter! In this post I’ll talk about writing Baby’s First Interpreter, porting my interpreter to RPython, and performing the translation.