NFL Elo Power Rankings for 2024

The 2024 NFL season is here!

I've been working on Elo model improvements, off and on, for the entire offseason. I'm excited to share some improvements.

The new 2024 season ratings and rankings page is live!

(The 2023, 2022, and 2021 pages are available and updated with the new model described below.)

My Electronic/Chill Album "Break | Away"

My "Break | Away" EP is now available for streaming!

This is a concept album mostly in the electronic/chill genre.

Click Counter App

I've released a new mini app! (And a new apps page.)

19% Moon on May 13, 2024

I shot the May 13, 2024 Moon at 19% phase (nearly first quarter). The idea was to try both the "lucky imaging" approach as well as some custom written Python code for aligning and stacking the frames.

April 8th 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

My family and I got super lucky for the total solar eclipse one month ago today: April 8, 2024. We were in western New York, and stayed put as the forecast steadily grew cloudier and cloudier.

We couldn't see anything for most of the first hour of the eclipse. While the Moon slowly made its way across the Sun... the clouds were too thick. Finally, as we neared totality, the clouds thinned! The partially eclipsed Sun was revealed! At times the Sun was visible through the clouds but very dim. I had no solar filter and risked my camera by taking some shots. For brief periods it got quite bright and we could finally see the eclipse through our eclipse glasses. Luckiest of all, we had roughly a minute or so of a clear view during totality!