It’s relatively easy to budget and save when your financial situation is stable. However, life and money have a tendency to change and not all situations are stable. The RealPlanCalc is built to answer questions about what happens when your financial situation changes in the future. Specifically, it illustrates how additional savings and income impact […]
My wife and I welcomed two delightful girls into the world earlier this year. The process wasn’t easy. We struggled with infertility for years and had an IVF cycle that was a total bust. Fortunately, we tried IVF a second time and, much to our surprise, ended up getting twins! Somewhere along the way, we […]
Have you noticed that you never get around to doing some of the things you say you want? You might even start, but you never truly commit to what you’re doing. Other times you say you don’t know what you want or can’t decide between a few different things. Maybe you want to write a […]
Over the years I’ve noticed that I have a tendency to say or think, “we can make that,” when I see something cool. In many cases the thing is a piece of furniture. Even though I know I can make the cool thing, I never make most of them. The main reason, as far as […]
One of the things I like to do with p5.js is sit down with a loose idea of something to explore. When I do that and add in some randomness and noise the outcome is usually more interesting than something I could have figured out up front. In this video we use Curve Vertex and […]
I won’t delve too deep into work here, but there is one thing we need to touch on. A couple years ago I started using Python to automate my work. In case you don’t know, Python is a programming language that’s great for manipulating data and automating daily tasks. I found that I really enjoyed […]
Note: You can think about this post as having two parts – the p5.js code part and the pen plotting part. This post covers the code to create the bookmarks and the video (linked at the bottom) shows the physical process for exporting the images and plotting them. Let’s get started . . . I […]
Sometime in the past year I started experimenting with Squeegee paintings. Specifically, I started using a window washing squeegee with lots of water to paint. It’s a blast! The video below shows the process for one of the earlier paintings I did. The painting is done on an 18″ back stapled canvas from Blick and […]
Sometime in the past couple of months I took a little diversion from my daily art projects and began working on something new. Specifically, I started learning Flask for web development. Some portion of the shift is that I got interested in web development with Python and the other is that my wife and I […]
One of the things I know with certainty is that I’m good at habits. Every morning I wake up before 4 and spend 45 minutes to an hour painting. Habit usually makes it easier to move forward because you have momentum in some direction. However, sometimes efforts stall out and you need to find a […]