The Fiscal Data API from the US Treasury provides us an easy way to see how the US debt is distributed.

The MCAS results for 2023 were published in mid-September 2023. In this post, we provide various ways of exploring the results.

The Dot Language from graphviz provides an easy way to make diagrams.

Using org-babel on windows can be a bit tricky as bash and other shells often don’t work quite right. Advice can help.

Setting up fonts in emacs has gotten easier.

There are many ways to fix your path in python virtual environments (and many ways to mess them up).

Granting a third party account access to your AWS S3 bucket can be quite useful.

Microsoft Windows sometimes locks files even against reading which makes copying, or backups brittle and error prone. This can be especially annoying with cloud storage like Dropbox, pCloud, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. This article describes a simple way to use shadow copies as a work around.

AWS Gateway lets you easily create inexpensive server-less functions.

Previously we wrote about Using lsyncd for Continuous Data Protection and Using rclone for remote storage in order to create an inexpensive, robust, and portable (across cloud providers) system for an encrypted cloud drive. If you have a lot of data, there are some tricks for faster setup.

The lsyncd program is a simple program which will synchronize your local file system with a remote version.

The rclone program is a wonderful tool for working with remote storage.

This blog uses the excellent open-source Utterances project for its comments system. Basically, this means that each post can have GitHub comments associated with it at the aocks/blog-comments repo.