Posts by Year

2024

One Lap of America 2024

1 minute read

My dad and I recently completed our third year of Brock Yates’ One Lap of America 2024 driving competition. For some reason, we keep coming back 🤪. I’m just ...

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2023

One Lap of America 2023

2 minute read

Last year, my dad and I competed in Brock Yates’ One Lap of America 2023 driving competition. This is our second time entering this driving competition; the...

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2022

LaTeX + Inkscape + Beamer + Latexmk

less than 1 minute read

This is the slide deck to a presentation I gave on LaTeX + Inkscape + Beamer + Latexmk to Hacker’s Cafe at ORNL.

Advanced Vim

less than 1 minute read

This is the slide deck to a presentation I gave on Advance Vim to the Hacker’s Cafe Brown Bag at ORNL.

My Favorite Vim Plugins

5 minute read

I use Vim and Visual Studio Code as my main text editors, and I have found multiple plugins to both which add nice features to the respective program. In thi...

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2021

Changing from Disqus to Utterances

less than 1 minute read

I have been having an issue where Disqus would not send me any emails when new comments are posted to the website. After going through all the settings in Di...

Brother’s Acting Demo Reel

less than 1 minute read

I helped my brother Preston edit together an acting demo reel using DaVinci Resolve. Check it out on his website at https://volweb.utk.edu/~pyoung15/acting/ ...

Happy Mother’s Day

less than 1 minute read

Happy Mother’s Day! Below is a blender animation I made a few years ago after following the Blender Guru’s Donut Tutorial.

Dr. Dean featured in PC Gamer

less than 1 minute read

My PhD advisor, Mark Dean, was recentally featured in PC Gamer for his work on the first IBM PC. Read the article at https://www.pcgamer.com/dr-mark-dean-int...

PhD Dissertation and Artifacts Available

less than 1 minute read

My dissertation titled SNACC: The Scaled-up Neuromorphic Array Communications Controller is now available at https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5843/.

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2020

Sourdough Bread

12 minute read

My favorite type of bread is a fresh, warm loaf of sourdough. I can almost go through a whole loaf by myself when it is fresh from the oven. Sourdough bread ...

Reorder

2 minute read

I recently created a reorder python script to rename, reorder, add, and remove files/directories in a directory with a numerical naming scheme.

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2019

The Big Orange Bramble

1 minute read

This year marks the three-year anniversary of the 64 node Raspberry Pi cluster known as the Big Orange Bramble or BOB. I am happy to report that BOB is still...

One Lap of America 2019

8 minute read

Recently my dad and I competed in Brock Yates’ One Lap of America driving competition. The official website for the event is found at onelapofamerica.com. ...

Skip Barber 3-Day Racing School

6 minute read

Recently my Dad and I attended a Skip Barber 3-Day Racing School at Road Atlanta in Georgia. The trip was a blast and driving on the track in a Mustang GT...

New Website using Jekyll

5 minute read

I decided that my project over Christmas break would be to create a new website. Although setting up the website overflowed past Christmas break, it is final...

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2013

Engineering in England

less than 1 minute read

A Weekend in Cardiff, Wales—June 15–17 (2013) by Josh Penney and Aaron Young

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