You’re looking at the personal website for Joseph Atkins-Turkish - software and data engineer, amateur musician and even-more-amateur home cook.

This website is my portfolio - check out my projects! But it’s also a space to share my thoughts on life, food, social issues, tech, and anything else.

My programming and professional interests are varied: web and product development, machine learning, game development, decision science, generally using code to further the Forces of Good, and any/all intersections of the above.

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Here's some stuff I wrote:

  • The value of information

    How much should you pay for information to help you make a decision?

  • Estimation of normal distribution parameters from percentiles, in Python

    Let’s say you’re going to do some business modeling for a friend who’s thinking of opening a flower shop, producing something like this at the end.

  • Simple Custom Resources for the AWS CDK

    If you are using the AWS CDK you will quickly discover that because it’s just a wrapper around CloudFormation, it shares with it the issue that not all of AWS’s features have been implemented.

  • Debugging HTTPS configuration for Dokku

    I recently decided to set up my website to use HTTPS. Configuring Github Pages - which hosts this blog - was easy . I just had to follow the Github Pages documentation on troubleshooting custom domains which directed me to update the A records in veryjoe.com’s domain configuration, then check a checkbox.

  • I used the formula for the volume of a cylinder in real life for the first time ever and it went OK

    For me, the phrase “pie dee over two squared aitch” (𝜋 (d½)² h) - also known as “pie are squared aitch” (𝜋r²h) - evokes images of university lectures; magnetic cylindrical rods, electric charge in a piece of wire. If you need to understand those things, you need to know how much space they take up in the world. Until the situation described here, I don’t think I’ve ever actually needed to calculate the volume of a cylinder outside of an exam.

  • Hello Jekyll

    DigitalOcean’s lovely WordPress instance decided it would constantly throw me Database Errors which I couldn’t be bothered to fix because, in the end, why do I need a database at all?

  • California: impressions, words, photos, food

    People keep asking: what’s California like? Everyone has funny accents and rain doesn’t exist.

  • Hummus Pasta Salad

    I made this recently by searching for “hummus pasta salad” on google, taking inspiration for a recipe or two and then improvising with what I had.

  • I hosted CollabPaint! And got annoyed at 4-years-ago-Joe.

    I put my old collaborative whiteboard project CollabPaint back up on the internet! Multiple people can log in to a room and paint at the same time, without having to register for an account or sign up.

  • Setting up shop

    I decided to bite the bullet and get myself an actual server on the internets to host my thingamabobs, and here I write about my experience.

  • Removing dead files from iTunes

    So, I made a blog. Mainly so I have a place to put my things.

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