Howdy, Space Cowboy

My name is Sean. I'm a software developer from Vancouver, Canada. I focus on systems and embedded programming. I've previously written code which operated in space; and am currently working in motion automation.

I enjoy math, programming, and building things. I'm working on a couple of projects at the moment You can find my writings and project notes on this site.

I'm too young to remember the early internet, but I've heard good things. This website is self-hosted and largely handmade (can you tell?). To contribute to the kind of internet I'd like to see more of, I maintain this website. It is principally a blog, but it also contains notes, projects descriptions, and links to things which I find useful or interesting. You can find much of this under Miscellanea.

If you are interested in exploring the margins of the internet, Marginalia Search is a search engine which is designed with the goal of improving the discoverability of blogs and other parts of the independent web.

I'm interested in many topics these days. If you see anything here you find interesting please reach out to me. I love getting email, à la Patrick McKenzie. Consider this a standing invitation.

Do people still send emails? Please email me to let me know.

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Projects

ORCASat

September 2, 2023

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Optical Reference Calibration Satellite. A 2U CubeSat designed and built by students at the University of Victoria. Launched aboard CRS-26 from Kennedy Space Center to the ISS on Nov. 26, 2022, then deployed to low earth orbit on Dec. 29, 2022. Atmospheric re-entry completed on July 7, 2023.

Satellite Image Classifier

April 13, 2023

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Trained Convolutional Neural Network to identify locations likely to contain mineral deposits on the Earth’s surface using NASA Landsat images. Training labels for supervised learning were generated programmatically using a corresponding dataset of known mineral deposits. The Landsat dataset is preprocessed by downsampling to a resolution of 512x512

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