Blog
2026
2026-08 Curving a Pipeline with Joint Deflection Instead of Fittings2026-08 Sizing a Thrust Block, and When to Stop and Use Restraint2026-08 Planning a Shutdown Against a Hard Window, Buffer and All2026-08 Flushing a Water Main: Velocity Scours, Not Flow2026-08 Measuring Pump Capacity by Drawdown, and the Inflow Correction2026-07 Finding the Pump Operating Point, and Why Parallel Pumps Don't Double Flow2026-07 Encoding SVG as a Data URI, and Why URL-Encoding Usually Wins2026-07 Drawing a Channel Cross-Section in SVG, and the 94% Quirk2026-07 Building a Stage-Storage-Discharge Curve, the Input to Routing2026-07 CT Compliance, T10, and Why Peak Flow Governs Disinfection2026-07 Hydrotest Makeup Water and the 148,000 vs 133,200 Divisor2026-07 Logging Tracer Study Samples with One-Tap Timestamps2026-07 Translating a Raw Ultrasonic Reading into Weir Flow2026-07 Diagnosing VFD Rotation Conflicts Between Hand and Auto2026-07 Detecting Subnet Mismatches Between Field Devices2026-07 Water-Tightness Testing Concrete Basins per ACI 350.12026-07 Tracking Working-Day Contract Time with Computed Federal Holidays2026-07 Replacing the Granny Knot and Supporting Independent Web Resources2026-07 Tagging Water Infrastructure in OSM, and Where the Line Is2026-07 Calculating Ventilation Purge Time (Which Is Not Entry Clearance)2026-07 Logging Rain Events and SWPPP Inspections Client-Side2026-07 Cloning GitHub Issue Labels via CLI2026-07 Preventing Data Bloat with HTML5 Video Preload None2026-07 Reading TIFF Orientation Tags Client-Side2026-07 Rendering SVGs Locally2026-07 Generating JavaScript Bookmarklets2026-07 Preparing Images for Print Client-Side2026-07 A Local SVG Sandbox2026-07 Running QuickJS via WebAssembly2026-07 Viewing EXIF Data Locally in the Browser2026-07 Previewing HTML Client-Side2026-07 A Vanilla JavaScript Pomodoro Timer2026-07 Running Tesseract OCR Locally in the Browser2026-07 Client-Side Image Format Conversion to JPEG2026-07 Generating QR Codes with Vanilla JavaScript2026-07 Converting Raster Images to Vector Graphics Locally2026-07 Extracting Tabular Data from Hypertext Markup Language Documents2026-07 Calculating Date Deltas via Client-Side Execution2026-07 Detention Time and Disinfection CT with EPA Baffling Factors2026-07 Scaling 4–20 mA Loop Signals, Linear and Square-Root2026-07 Flood Freeboard Checks and the NGVD29/NAVD88 Datum Trap2026-07 Slippy Tile Math and the Overpass Bbox Comma Shuffle2026-07 Temporary Flow Measurement with Weirs and Orifices2026-07 Deleting trash on Trash-1000 on Linux external drives2026-07 LaTeX diagram workflow with AI and TikZ2026-07 Water Hammer Quick-Checks: Joukowsky and the 2L/a Trap2026-07 Solving Manning's Normal Depth by Bisection Client-Side2026-06 A Hand-Method HDS-5 Culvert Headwater Check2026-06 Billed vs. Received, and What Retention Does to the Cash Curve2026-06 Rebar Weight Takeoff and ACI 318 Lap Splice Lengths2026-06 The Earned Value S-Curve, CPI Stability, and the 90% Syndrome2026-06 Checking Flotation Safety Before Draining a Structure2026-06 Walking a Metes-and-Bounds Traverse, with Closure Diagnostics2026-06 The Water Units That Cause Real Errors, in One Converter2026-06 Asphalt Patch Tonnage for Trench Restoration2026-06 A Look-Ahead Gantt That Deliberately Has No Dependency Logic2026-06 Sizing Deflection Test Mandrels from the Base Inside Diameter2026-06 Reading the Submittal and RFI Backlog as an Aging Histogram2026-06 Timing Low-Pressure Air and Manhole Vacuum Tests2026-06 Scaling Pump Performance with the Affinity Laws2026-06 Converting GeoJSON, WKT, and CSV Geometry, with a Lat/Lon Swap Detector2026-06 Why Detention Basins Size on a Storm Longer Than Tc2026-06 Calculating NPSH Available Before the Pump Tells You Itself2026-06 Calculating Wet Well Cycle Time and Pump Starts per Hour2026-05 Circular-Mil Voltage Drop for Temporary Power Runs2026-05 Checking Crane Picks Against Chart Capacity2026-05 Curve Number Runoff and When Area-Weighting Lies2026-05 Checking Field Compaction Against the Proctor2026-05 Estimating Annular and Abandonment Grout Volumes2026-05 Coordinate Conversion from Snyder, Verified Against Its Own Invariants2026-05 Trench Quantities in Bank, Loose, and Compacted Yards2026-05 Computing Bypass Pumping Total Dynamic Head with Hazen-Williams2026-05 Peak Flow by the Rational Method with a TR-55 Tc Builder2026-05 An Offline Chlorine Dosing Calculator for Water Main and Tank Disinfection2026-03 Scrubbing photo GPS data with ExifCleaner2026-03 Fixing NTFS/exFAT superblock mount errors on Pop!_OS
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2015-August 2017. The purpose is to maintain communication with family and friends while abroad. The
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Peace Corps.
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