Personal · Writing
Notes on finance, school and work
Write-ups of the projects on this site, and everything I publish on Substack, newest first.
Contents
9 pieces
A pork price board from USDA's daily report, every cut in plain English and SpanishOn this site
How the site's pork board turns USDA's LM_PK602 report into a page for every pork cut, in English and Spanish, and what six years of the pork cutout show.
What packers pay for cattle, region by region, from six USDA reportsOn this site
How the site's fed cattle board puts USDA's 5-area, state and regional cash cattle reports on one page, what six years of prices show, and where data is thin.
I put my YouTube channel's live numbers on my own siteOn this site
Why I put my YouTube channel's stats on this site with a free Cloudflare Worker, how it reads YouTube's API without exposing a key, and what the numbers show.
I turned USDA's weekly truck rate report into a reefer rate boardOn this site
How I built a weekly reefer truck rate board from USDA's truck rate report with a Cloudflare Worker, the typos I found in USDA's data, and what diesel did.
I turned USDA's daily boxed beef report into a price board for every cutOn this site
How I built a daily boxed beef price board with a page for every cut from USDA's LM_XB403 report, what six years of the cutout show, and where it falls short.
I built a board of truck wait times at every land border crossingOn this site
How I built a board of commercial truck wait times at every U.S. land port from CBP's feed with a Cloudflare Worker, and what the usual waits by hour show.
I replaced my Minecraft price spreadsheet with a crafting profit calculatorOn this site
Why I built Craft Ledger, a Minecraft crafting profit calculator for DonutSMP and other SMPs, how it costs every vanilla recipe, and the crafts it turned up.
I built an aggregate planning solver that runs in the browserOn this site
Why I built a web-based aggregate planning calculator instead of using Excel Solver, how it finds the cheapest level, band and chase plans, and what it shows.
I raced a fruit fly's brain against Google's OR-ToolsOn this site
I put a fruit fly's navigation circuit, wired from FlyWire, in charge of a delivery truck and raced it against OR-Tools. Where the fly won, and where it didn't.