About

Math dweeb turned data specialist. Mostly this means data science, but along the way I've handled data in all stages of pipelines from scraping, to staging, to reporting and analytics. I've taken a particular interest in data engineering and architecture after experiencing the tendency of corporate data infrastructure to be held together by duct tape and silly putty.

Other interests include cultural commentary, art movies, street metal, and puzzle games. Trying to spend less time doomscrolling and more time making and/or looking at cool things. Results TBD.

This site mostly exists because of my interest in IndieWeb principals and divesting from the corporate internet. Also, I figure it's decent skill development.

It is hosted for the large first year price of three dollars. It could have been created for 1% of the effort with better design and features by using any number of microblogging or GUI based hosting services, but that would have been less interesting.

Site Tooling/Attribution

• The site is made using Pelican, a Python based static site generator that uses Jinja2 templates for themes.
• The theme is/was notmyidea
  • This is the default Pelican theme, originally published in Smashing Magazine
  • It is slowly diverging from this as I make manual edits. Mostly just deleting the stuff I don't use for clarity, but who knows what might happen?
• The site generating code is hosted on GitHub in a personal repo.
• The domain patrickd.xyz was registered from porkbun.
• The site itself is built and hosted by Netlify on its free tier (unless I smash the build button too much, in which case I might upgrade).