Incidental Findings

… per chance discoveries which may warrant further investigation…

Comparison of two dexamethasone regimens
Clinical

Dexamethasone has been used to facilitate extubation in preterm infants, but higher-dose courses are associated with neurodevelopmental disability. This is a comparison of…

Sep 16, 2025

Pocket Frogs Search Minigame - Anura
Just for fun

Optimizing Pocket Frogs gift farming with the Anura search minigame.

Aug 13, 2025

Recovering growth chart LMS parameters
R
Code snippet
Clinical

R code to use growth chart tables of percentile values to recreate LMS parameterization – with perfect data, only 3 values needed per set of parameters.

Jul 30, 2025

Fenton 2025 electronic growth chart QA testing
R
Code snippet
Clinical
Data visualization

Quality assurance testing of Fenton 2025 LMS parameter calculations to generate an electronic growth chart

Jul 20, 2025

Growth chart comparison
R
Clinical
Data visualization

Comparison of Fenton, Olsen, and WHO growth charts and observations on the interpretation of small, large, preterm, and term.

Jun 28, 2025

Cessna 172S Performance Calculations
R
Flight

Predictive modeling of performance characteristics, including takeoff, climb, cruise, and landing. FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.

Mar 20, 2025

Delaying R Shiny textInput processing
R
Code snippet

Delay textInput processing until submit button or enter key is pressed, with example Shiny app to fetch METAR data.

Mar 11, 2025

Julia computation within Quarto
Julia
Quarto
Code snippet

Quick test of executing a Julia code block from within a Quarto blog post.

Feb 22, 2025

Leaflet, GeoTIFF, and Colormaps
R
Data visualization

Using {leaflet} with a GeoTIFF background layer and resolving difficulties with RGB colormaps

Feb 21, 2025

METAR analysis, part 2
Flight
R
Shiny

Updated to an interactive shinylive client-side web application to analyze historical METAR weather data for flight conditions by month and time of day.

Feb 19, 2025

Gestational age calculator
R
Code snippet
Clinical

Newborn gestational age calculations in R. Given any set of LMP, EDC, DOB, date, GA, age, DOL, PMA, calculate as many of the others as possible.

Feb 11, 2025

PediTools bilirubin webtool via Alfred keyboard shortcut
zsh
Alfred
Code snippet

Creating an Alfred app workflow to trigger the PediTools 2022 AAP hyperbilirubinemia guidelines webtool via zsh script

Feb 8, 2025

Gestational age parsing
R
Code snippet
Clinical

Helper functions for vectorized parsing of gestational age strings to numeric and back

Feb 4, 2025

Future-proofing with PediTools Universal
R
Clinical
PediTools
Shiny

Preparing PediTools for the future: support for 120+ distinct growth curves and beyond, including bulk calculations, plotting, and custom growth chart generation.

Feb 1, 2025

WHO growth standards, expanded
R
Clinical
PediTools
Data visualization

WHO Growth Standard expanded chart parameters – mildly automated data scraping and metadata parsing.

Dec 4, 2024

Night flight training
Flight
Data visualization

How to spend hours down the rabbit hole of finding precise definitions for night flying and analyzing exactly how accurate the usual rule of thumb is.

Nov 8, 2024

Custom checklists
Flight

Creating customized, precisely-sized, double-sided, laminated, easy-to-update checklists.

Oct 18, 2024

Crafting my own VFR Navlog
Flight

Creating a navigation log with heading, time, fuel consumption, and weight & balance calculations, also suitable for printing and folding for use on a kneeboard.

Oct 13, 2024
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