Texas, my class, and the recruits who didn't make it
Texas came out lowest among Power programs at turning recruits into NFL players. I was one of those recruits. Here's what the numbers say happened, and what they don't.
Essays & notes
Writing
Essays on data engineering, my own health experiments, and what I learn building this site. Updated when I have something worth saying.
Which college football programs develop players?
I counted how many of each program's recruits made the NFL, and compared it with how many their ratings said would.
Who's filling out my contact form?
My contact form had been quietly collecting spam for six weeks. Here's what showed up, why my defenses missed it, and what finally stopped it.
Cynical isn't a strategy
I played at Texas, and I've gotten jaded about what college football turned into. So I built a place for former players to say what they think.
Why I keep rebuilding this website
Three stacks, one excuse to learn. My personal site is less a portfolio than a place to teach myself whatever I'm into that year.
Fifteen lines of Ruby found plateaus I don't remember
I wrote the stall detector under my weight chart. It flagged month-long flat stretches I remember as steady progress.
Lab reference ranges describe the population. They aren't the bar.
A green checkmark next to every value on my last panel. Three of them I'd flag if they were on someone I cared about.
I gained 13.6 pounds of muscle in four months. Probably not.
The DEXA said my lean mass jumped from 239.0 to 252.6 lbs between January and May. I'm 35. I'm not on anything. Time to look at what that number is actually measuring. Updated in August with the scan that settled it.