projects

Here is a description of the projects that I have worked on that I do not consider research.

• Spotify playlist helper:
  • I made a small Spotify bot to help my good friend and musician Green Ring manage his custom playlist. Other spotify bots were messing with the playlist metadata so I created a simple bot to counteract their attacks.
• A quantum evolutionary algorithm for approximating classical max-cut (Spring 2020).
  • Written for a class CSCI 5423 Bio-inspired Multi Agent Systems: Github repo
• Personal site:

  • This site is hosted by Github Pages which is a free(!) and awesome service that will build and deploy a simple website straight from your github repository! The service processes your project’s HTML, CSS, and JS files and freely serves them to https://<your_project>.github.io. (It is easy to use a different URL that you own if desired.) To generate the source files, I forked the al-folio theme and customized it to my liking which essentially amounted to adding my name and the color scheme. Yellow is my favorite color so any constructive criticism against the coloring will be filed into the ignored category. The files are constructed using Jekyll, a Ruby-based static website (and blog) generator. It is quite easy to search the web for a Jekyll theme that you like then fork and edit it to make it your own personal or professional website. Did I mention all of this was free?

    Feel free to check out my source code!

  • Further reading:

    1. A well-balanced, slightly outdated assessment of Jekyll vs Wordpress
    2. Some Jekyll themes
    3. Some more Jekyll themes
    4. Switching Blog from Wordpress to Jekyll
    5. Jekyll tutorial
    6. Markdown cheat sheet