Sam’s Blog

Radarscope colormaps for color vision deficiency

A few years ago, I had an opprotunity to participate in the development and eventual proposal of a radar reflectivity colormap that attempted to balance the trade-off…

Website updates, static HTML is the future

As previously mentioned, this blog is now using Quarto. I’ve found this to have been relatively smooth experience, and I probably would’ve used Quarto from the beginning if…

Converting from numpy datetime64 to python datetime and back.

The current top answer on stackoverflow is (in my not-so-humble opinion) incorrect. You do not need to import pandas or any other nonsense to convert a numpy datetime64 to a…

This website uses WordPress. It probably won’t for much longer.

I have some concerns with how a WordPress, a technically open source project, depends on plugins (also open source, most of the time), that are hosted in a centralized…

The replacement of ADRAD with ClimaVision’s radar was an objectively good decision.

On June 22, 2024, the Aggie Doppler Radar (ADRAD) was removed from the roof of the O&M building and was replaced by a currently-yet-to-be-named ClimaVision radar system.…

mamba-ify your python

Does the following image bring about nightmares?

How to build a self-hosted website

Update 11/25/2025: most of this post is outdated. This site is now hosted on DigitalOcean’s “droplet” VPS and uses Quarto, not WordPress.