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Hi, I’m Jim. I love movies, programming, and data, among other things.

I blogged a lot in 2014 and 2015, when I was learning programming on my own and attending the Recurse Center (shameless plug, go apply!). At the time, I was excited to write about movies & data and my experience learning programming.

Since then, I’ve been working as a data engineer, engineering manager, internal tools engineer, infrastructure engineer, and other roles at YipitData, which has been great and I’ve learned a lot! But I’ve only rarely blogged or worked on personal projects.

This is an effort to start again — I want to keep writing about what excites me, which might be movies, data, programming, or something else.

Here are some small projects I’ve worked on:

  • Thank the Academy: a Markov generator for Academy Awards acceptance speeches. This was really fun! But the graphs don’t work anymore :(.
  • 1.37:1: a small site where I played around with simple visualizations of movie data (box office & ticket prices).
  • Tiny: a web framework I built in Python during my time at RC. I learned a lot from this.
  • Rotten Tomatoes CLI: A command-line interface I built for the Rotten Tomatoes API. Mostly an excuse to play around with their API, but it was really cool to work on!