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Mission Bay Wind

Live wind confidence score for sailing Mission Bay

Jan 31, 2026

Type 1 Diabetes Genome Analysis Report

Genomic analysis exploring Type 1 Diabetes susceptibility

Jan 31, 2026

My Type 1 Diabetes Genomic Analysis Report

I built a workflow to leverage Illumina Dragen to interpret known T1D genetic risk factors, including HLA and 25 validated variants, and output an easy to understand report.

Jan 12, 2026

How a T1D cure might happen in my lifetime 🧬

Recent advances in cell therapies for type 1 diabetes mean that a cure does not seem that far off.

Dec 13, 2025

Exploring my own genome.

Using Dragen to explore my auto-immune variants, and explore the question of WHY someone gets diabetes.

Dec 11, 2023

I have had Type 1 Diabetes for over 25 years and today on World Diabetes Day I want to celebrate the most impactful open source project I have ever used. Before I can talk about that though, I have to set the stage for a moment.

Nov 14, 2023

Top 5 takeaways from TCOYD

TCOYD is a conference specifically for Type 1 Diabetics. In this post I wanted to go over the top 5 takeaways I got from the conference.

Aug 23, 2023

Favorite Quotes

15 quotes that resonate with me about everything from Leadership to Invention.

Jul 22, 2023

Updating my website from my iPad!

How I am able to use github codespaces to develop and push updates to my website, from my iPad.

Apr 30, 2023

2022: Year In Review

Time Flies

Dec 31, 2022

Much like bow ties, Genomics Is Cool!

If you like big data, cutting edge computing, cloud hyper scaling, and solving real problems to improve human health, you will love genomics.

May 22, 2022

My T1D Variants 🧬

Analyzing My Own Genome 🧬 Looking For Type 1 Diabetes Specific Variants

Mar 16, 2022

Grant

My thoughts after finishing Grant.

Dec 28, 2021

2021 Year In Review

Reviewing my 2021 goals

Dec 18, 2021

National Diabetes Awareness Month 2021

My adventure with Type 1 Diabetes.

Nov 2, 2021

Kubecon2021

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities.

Oct 16, 2021

Inhalable Insulin Carrier V1

A 3D print to solve the pain that is carrying inhalable insulin around.

Jul 17, 2021

My experience as a Lab Rat 🧀🐀

My experience doing a clinical trial for a new Type 1 Diabetes Drug

May 27, 2021

Goals Check-In ⛳️

Every year I buy a whiteboard and write my goals for the year on that whiteboard. I then hang that whiteboard up somewhere I can see it every day. The objective is not necessarily to check off every goal on the whiteboard, but to guide my actions toward my priorities when I am feeling in a funk. Usually I don’t share these goals publicly but this year I decided to post about them and update…

Apr 8, 2021

Armenian Words

Generating Armenian word translations for upload to quizlet

Mar 14, 2021

Glucose Datascience

Predicting with 79% accuracy which days I exercised based on Blood Glucose Data with Neural Networks

Feb 27, 2021

Glucose Sound

I wonder what a days worth of glucose readings sound like?

Jan 15, 2021

What I Imagine the world will be like in 2040

I wanted to write down some of my thoughts of what I thought the year 2040 would be like. Some may be wildly wrong, but I thought it would be a fun exercise.

Jan 2, 2021

Black Lives Matter

At a time when every person has every excuse not to get out there, people came out in massive numbers. People weighed the risk of a global pandemic, against the cost of doing nothing, and they chose to do something. This is democracy in action, this is an America at its best, this is people realizing their power.

Jun 7, 2020