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Optimizing Pocket Frogs gift farming with the Anura search minigame.
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.
Quality assurance testing of Fenton 2025 LMS parameter calculations to generate an electronic growth chart
Comparison of Fenton, Olsen, and WHO growth charts and observations on the interpretation of small, large, preterm, and term.
Predictive modeling of performance characteristics, including takeoff, climb, cruise, and landing. FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
Delay textInput processing until submit button or enter key is pressed, with example Shiny app to fetch METAR data.
Quick test of executing a Julia code block from within a Quarto blog post.
Using {leaflet} with a GeoTIFF background layer and resolving difficulties with RGB colormaps
Updated to an interactive shinylive client-side web application to analyze historical METAR weather data for flight conditions by month and time of day.
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.
Creating an Alfred app workflow to trigger the PediTools 2022 AAP hyperbilirubinemia guidelines webtool via zsh script
Helper functions for vectorized parsing of gestational age strings to numeric and back
Preparing PediTools for the future: support for 120+ distinct growth curves and beyond, including bulk calculations, plotting, and custom growth chart generation.
WHO Growth Standard expanded chart parameters – mildly automated data scraping and metadata parsing.
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.
Creating customized, precisely-sized, double-sided, laminated, easy-to-update checklists.
Creating a navigation log with heading, time, fuel consumption, and weight & balance calculations, also suitable for printing and folding for use on a kneeboard.
Retrieving long lost instructions on how to fold aviation charts, both the original Duncan McKillop method as well as a later improvement by Steve Hirlehey