Fisher's Blog

The RSS Feed Works Now

Last month, I was showing my friend the RSS feature of this website, only to realize none of the links worked when I imported the feed into a reader. I finally got around to looking into it today. After reading the jekyll-feed readme, I realized I’d forgotten to add url to my _config.yml. Aft...

SSH Profiles in iTerm2

Well, I admit I didn’t end up writing as much as I’d hoped. When final projects and final exams rolled around, I put everything aside. Oh well. Anyway, I recently got an Ubuntu instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (I know, I know, I’ll explain this in a different post). It’s been nice, but U...

A Plan for Writing Consistently

I haven’t written any blog posts recently, and I’ve been thinking about how I could be more consistent with my blog. Shorter blog posts I think, after writing my last blog post that turned out to be very long, I didn’t want to expend the effort to write something so long again. But blog posts d...

A New Data Model for Pokésummary

This past week, I made significant technical changes to Pokésummary, my command-line Python program. In this blog post, I’ll recount the process of redesigning the data model. Some background Pokésummary version 1 consisted of three modules: __main__.py, which contained the logic for reading Pok...

Linux for Windows Users

In the past month, I invited a few computer science students to join the Energize Andover club. Most of them used Windows. Remembering how frustrating development had been for me on Windows, I shuddered at the thought of returning to that hell with them if I were to guide them through working wit...