My Blog

I like to write about things I find interesting, relating to current events and tech. Below is also a link to my personal site, where you will find a list of projects I've worked on and completed, as well as links to sites about me such as my github.

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Phosphorus, Oolitic deposits, and Chinese Made Cast Iron Cookware
Why it can make sense to seek out and buy American made cast iron cookware, beyond patriotism.
October 2024

The Trouble Marketing New Software Products to Conservatives
Lessons I learned targeting conservative parents with my startup Parent Controls Win.
October 2024

The Simplest Possible Stripe Subscriptions Setup with Phoenix and stripity-stripe
I needed the simplest payment solution I could find which managed subscriptions and integrates into a website; that's what this guide is. Based on the Tolc guide, but prioritizes Stripe Checkout and doesn't require webhooks.
Janurary 2024

Comparing two American Made Computer Cases
American made computer cases are rare, and I now own the only two consumer-oriented ATX compatible cases I'm aware of. So I compared them.
November 2023

Twitter Sentiment Analysis of Beer Companies and LGBT support
An analysis of twitter sentiment of pro-LGBT tweets among beer companies.
April 2023

Helmet Comparison: WaveCel vs MIPS vs traditional EPS foam
An analysis of a variety of studies looking at different helmet technologies including MIPS, WaveCel, SPIN, and even an airbag helmet.
August 2022

How to set up Sibyl VPS
Setting up your virtual private server on Sibyl, SSH and an SSH key.
November 2021

My 2019 Book list
It's that time of year again; the books I read in 2019 that I'd recommend to anyone else.
Dec 2019

Could we ever stream video over a couple kbps?
A fun thought experiement to see whether you could use predetermined shared maps to compress images in a video stream to extremely small files.
August 2019

Beating traditional arbitration with bitcoin
How I got around traditional arbitraging tacktics to make money reselling bitcoin in 2013.
May 2019

Setting up Raspbian without an external monitor or keyboard
Here's a simply guid for connecting to a raspberry pi through ssh, without going through the normal monitor or router process.
March 2019

My 2018 Book List
Stolen from Bill Gate's, I've compiled a list of my favorite four books I read in 2018
March 2019

An Informal look at City Planning
An informal look at overarching themes in city planning, and how these themes have played out over the decades.
Jan 2019

A Novel Compromise to the Copyright Debate
A quick take on a simple change to our copyright code, that could potentually revitalize dead works.
October 2018

How the Chinese Economy is miss-interpreting Leverage for Genius
A informal look at the looming debt crisis in China.
August 2018

Hosting a Ruby on Rails site using AWS EC2
This is how I first setup an amazon EC2 instance to run ruby on rails and sqlite.
July 2018

Creating a Competitive Ranking Algorithm
Here I walk through my process in creating an algorithm to effectivly rank players as they compete against each.
June 2018

The State of Deep Sea Mining, Part 1
I believe deep sea mining will see a renaissance in the upcoming years, and here I provide a brief overview of mining and where I think the industry is headed.
June 2018

Paradrop Gigabit Challenge
Paradrop is a compeition built of of Madison based around edge computing, and here is my initial ideas for the project. I plan on following this up as time goes on and I complete more of the technical challenges of the project.
June 2018

YouTube as a Media Distribution Company
YouTube has been having trouble positioning itself as a media distribution company vs a platform, and how giving them the rights to decide what content the want ot push may not have been the best choice.
May 2018

One of the keys to YouTube's dominance
A look at how Google's policy changes helped to position YouTube as the dominant video search and hosting site.
May 2018

How the .epub format works, and how to write ebooks
A short website on building .epub files
Jan 2017
 
Thomas Hansen
You may contact me at contact@thomashansen.xyz
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