An essay on the observational science of astronomy in the twenty-first century and my own experiences training in the field, which won Harvard University's 2012 Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Students in the Natural Sciences.
Examines velocity evolution and intrinsic colors of Type Ia supernovae.
A 2011 article for GradHacker about being an astronomy graduate student.
A 2011 article for Physics Today about public engagement for science.
A September 2010 Linux Format Magazine article about Hugin, the tool for stitching panoramic photographs.
A 2008 ExtremeTech article about the open source Neuros OSD media player hardware.
A 2007 Free Software Magazine article about running Linux GUI software on Windowx by tunneling over SSH X11 forwarding.
A 2007 Free Software Magazine article about cross-platform file sharing over SSH.
The final entry in a 2007 series for LWN about the Google Summer of Code.
The fifth of six entries in a 2007 series for LWN about the Google Summer of Code, this one focusing on projects with Mozilla.
A 2007 Linux.com article about sharing files between Linux and Windows machines using Samba.
The fourth of six entries in a 2007 series for LWN about the Google Summer of Code, this one focusing on the Windows compatability layer Wine.
A 2007 Linux.com article about the development of the then-new Plasma desktop for KDE4.
This is the third of six articles in a LWN series about the Google Summer of Code 2007, this one focusing on the Open Medical Record System.
A June 2007 Linux Format Magazine article about Kamion, the system migration tool built for KDE4.
The second entry in a 2007 series for LWN about the Google Summer of Code, focusing on projects from Ubuntu.
A 2007 Linux.com article about a new database used to correct camera model-specific distortion patterns in photographs when stitching panoramas with Hugin.
A 2007 Linux.com article about the Linux distributions PCLinuxOS launching a hardware certification program.
The first of six entries in a 2007 series for LWN about the Google Summer of Code.
A 2007 article for the Linux Weekly News about KDE's Hot New Stuff system for downloading themes and other add-ons.