Kurt J. Lewis

Looking at 2023

It's now the third week of 2023 as I write this, though I've been thinking about writing it for a lot longer. Things are mostly the same for me, but there's a few things I'd like to write about: I've been thinking a lot about running and biking recently: On

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Some Recent Photos

Last year I bought myself a small mirror-less camera, mostly for hiking. I've been trying to work on my photography skills, and while most of what I take doesn't come out looking so good, I've gotten a few I'm proud of. Here they are: Rancho San Antonio Preserve 2022-10-30I purposefully

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Hiking Peters Creek Loop

At the end of June, I went for a 12 mile hike in Portola Redwoods State Park. Portola is one of my favorite parks in the bay area. It feels so remote even though Silicon Valley being just a few miles away. Driving to Portola is always an adventure. It

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A Late November Blog Post

It's almost the end of November, which also means 2020 is coming to a close. I told myself that I'd write a blog post over my five day break from work, and here I am doing that. In May I'd hoped that I'd write more on my blog - though

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Passing the Time at Home

I began work from home on March 13th, followed shortly behind by Bay Area counties initiating shelter in place orders. For me, that means I've been feeling the direct impact of Coronavirus for almost 60 days. I think I'm overdue for a blog update, so I'm going to write about

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Adjusting to Life in California

This summer, Harvest and I moved to the Bay Area so we could start our respective jobs. We've been here for just about a month and a half now, and things are starting to feel like home. Sunset over the bayThis summer as part of our move we drove across

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University of Cincinnati Graduation

College is over, and that's weird. I've spent the last 17 years in school, and now I'm not in school anymore. I've had a fantastic senior year - filled with friends I'm having a hard time saying goodbye to, a few classes with really fun projects to work on, and

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RevolutionUC 8

The start of March was the 8th RevolutionUC, and my last one as well. While I wasn't in charge this year, I've written a blog post for every other year, so why not this one? My RoleThis year I was just an advisor for the team. I attended meetings, gave

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Building a Budget

I'm getting to that point in my life where I have to start pretending to be an adult, and part of that is budgeting my spending. I spent a few hours this past weekend writing a custom budgeting spreadsheet in Google Sheets, which was my first dive into Google App

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Journaling on the Command Line

I'm not the first person to write a script for journaling from the command line, and I won't be the last. This is just a short blog post detailing the steps I took setting it up, and demonstrating how it works! I got my inspiration from this comment on Hacker

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Spring 2019: My Last Semester of College

This week starts my last semester of college! My time at UC is finally coming to it's end, and I'm definitely sad about it. I'm going to miss college - I love learning, hanging out with friends, and all the antics that go along with it. That said, I'm definitely

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Visualizing Network Epidemic Models Using GraphStream

This fall I took a course in Network Science and it's been one of my favorite courses during my time at the University of Cincinnati. I've always liked graphs, and this course was all graph theory! One of the topics covered was different ways of describing epidemics in networks and

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After Graduation at Google

I've spent the past many months looking for a job, and I'm very excited to say that I've accepted my first full time software engineering job! After graduation I'll be moving to California to work for Google in Google Product Infrastructure! I'm very much looking forward to becoming a Googler!

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A Second Year of One Second Everyday

Two years ago, I began trying to record one second everyday. Here's a link to last years! Throughout the end of 2017 and the first three quarters of 2018, I've again attempted to record a second everyday. I was less successful recording everyday, and a video encoding error destroyed a

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Fall Semester 2018

As has become a pseudo tradition for myself - I'm writing a blog post as I enter my next semester of class. Only two more semesters left! This fall will be my last fall at UC, and I'm very excited to make the most of my senior year - going

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Ambassadors Website Version 1.0

At the start of the summer, I mentioned I would be spending a lot of my summer writing a new website for the UC College of Engineering and Applied Science tour group I'm a member of - and last night I marked version v1.0.0! The website is live

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On to the summer of 2018!

I'm in that lull between the end of the spring and start of the summer, and so I wanted to take a second to write down some of the things that happened this spring, and some of the things I'm looking forward to this summer! This Past Spring This past

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ACM@UC - Leaving Office

This month, my second and final term as the president of ACM@UC will come to an end. As I prepare to transition operations to the next executive board, I wanted to take the time to reflect upon the past two years, and some of the things I've learned. Building

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RevolutionUC 7

The first weekend of March marked RevolutionUC 7, ACM@UC's annual hackathon. This was my third hackathon as a lead, and my second as the official "Director" of the event. If you know me, you know that RevolutionUC consumes my life for a few weeks every year, but

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Spring Semester 2018

This Monday I start my sixth semester at UC. I got to enjoy a winter break of relaxation and nothing, something I definitely needed. I'm looking forward to tackling the next semester reinvigorated and ready to go. This semester I will be taking 15 credit hours of CS courses. This

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A Full Year of One Second Everyday!

On October 1st 2016, I started recording a second everyday. Using 1 second everyday, I can mash them up into a summary of my life. Today is the anniversary of when I started record, and to mark it, I've uploaded the first year of seconds to youtube. You can watch

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My First Devops Failure and Why I'm Leaving Digital Ocean

This past week, I had my first ever true devops failure. I lost almost a month of production data for a student group website I manage, and like most devops failures, it was the fault of myself, the user. What happened Our student group advisor recently left the university, and

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Running Again

The last time I ran over four miles was probably my freshman year of college. I'm now entering my fourth year. There was a time where I ran fifty miles a week, spent hours with running teammates, and built my days around my afternoon run. But, life happens and a

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RevolutionUC Spring 2017

The spring 2017 RevolutionUC was a great success! On the 8th and 9th of April 276 hackers and over a dozen mentors came together to build some really cool projects. As the official director, this time I worked to build upon the success of the fall 2016 RevolutionUC and to

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HackYSU and tIQit

This past weekend, from Friday 2/17 to Sunday 2/19 I spent the weekend in my almost hometown of Youngstown at HackYSU. It was a great weekend of hacking, seeing my family, and spending time with friends while enjoying an always great MLH hackathon. I worked in a team