posts.
- Beyond CLAUDE.md: building project memory for Claude Code
- Thoughts on woodturning
- Historical detective work
- What I read when I started my job at Georgian
- Thoughts on my reading habits at the end of 2021
- NBA Conference Finals 2021: most searched team by state
- NHL: Most Popular Team by State (Playoffs 2021)
- In which I analyze scoring trends for the NHL's most prolific scorers
- Encoding both absolute and percentage variables in the same visual
- Tracking the Leafs with a cumulative line chart
- Friday Night Racing: 2019
- Charting the Leafs' record (2017–2018)
- Baby's first two months
- Scraping Ontario's publicly available datasets
- Ontario public sector salaries, 2016
- Whiskey!
- Baseball time series
- The Tragically Hip's MMP Summer 2016 setlists
- Baby names in Ontario over time
- Analyzing my Zotero library
projects.
- Pot Odds Trainer
A lightweight poker pot odds quiz for practicing pot odds, equity estimation, and call/fold/raise decisions.
- Koi-Koi
A web-based Koi-Koi (Hanafuda) card game — player vs AI, using traditional SVG card art.
- davidtingle.com
This site — built with Astro, content-driven from a local Obsidian vault.
- If Not Now, When? Script
I have been working on a script / plan for a show that adapts Primo Levi's classic into a miniseries. I just want to write the pilot.
- Learning how to Turn Wood
In 2022 I gave myself a personal job of learning how to turn wood on a lathe.
- Google Data Analytics Certificate on Coursera
As a 20% project in 2021, I helped out as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on a cool certificate Google launched in partnership with Coursera.
- Data Visualization Course
At Google I was one of the instructors for an internal course on Data Viz. I continued on for a few years after I left as "external faculty" for this course.
- Territory Mapmakers
I opened a shopify store that sold digital maps. I wired up Google Ads & Facebook Ads to learn the platforms from the user perspective. I didn't sell many digital maps, but learned a lot.