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<p>2020, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year">the Plague Year</a>, is over.</p>

2020-08-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2020/wfh.html/

<p>COVID-19 changed the world. It has started a Pandemic Depression.</p>

2020-06-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2020/data-eng-talk.html/

<p>Tomorrow, I’m giving a presentation to students in the University of Washington’s <a href="https://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/big-data-technologies">Big Data Technologies</a> certificate program.</p>

2020-05-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2020/single-cell-intro.html/

<p>I’ve been working on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_cell_sequencing">single-cell sequencing</a> pipelines <a href="https://viz.fredhutch.org/">at work</a>. My favorite collaboration was with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robamezquita/">Rob Amezquita</a>, a brilliant postdoc. I handled the data engineering and infrastructure, and he handled the science.</p>

2020-02-05T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2020/chaos-order.html/

<p>I have too much going on. In the last 15 minutes before writing this I thought about 3 work projects, legal paperwork, trip planning, house repairs, what I’m going to cook, and helping a friend move.</p>

2020-01-28T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2020/email.html/

<p>How do I coordinate with 8 people in different groups? How does an airline tell me about changes to next week’s flight? What’s a good way for a long-lost friend to reach me?</p>

2020-01-21T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2020/set-aws-session.html/

<p>My work involves elevated access to computers, including <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">Amazon Web Services</a> (AWS) accounts.</p>

2020-01-08T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2020/setting-goals.html/

<p>A new year brings New Years’ Resolutions. I’ve lost track of the number of social media posts I’ve seen about this.</p>

2020-01-07T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2020/kubernetes-snippets.html/

<p>I do a bunch of work with <a href="https://kubernetes.io/">Kubernetes</a> (‘K8S’), building tools so researchers can do repeatable, scalable research using containers. To do so I had to figure out a bunch of useful commands for manipulating pods (containers), including deploying them, debugging, and host management. I started with the <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet/">K8S cheatsheet</a> and went from there.</p>

2019-12-31T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2019/retrospective.html/

<p>2019 is over. As is my tradition, I use the New Year to look back, reflect, and learn lessons. I’ve always been a student; I see life as a series of puzzles to solve, and lessons to learn.</p>

2019-12-28T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2019/elasticsearch-snippets.html/

<p>I do a bunch of work with <a href="https://www.elastic.co/">ElasticSearch</a>, building tools so researchers can search through large amounts of data. I’ve had to figure out a bunch of useful queries for searching, aggregations, deletes, and index management.</p>

2019-07-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2019/to-do.html/

<p>What was that errand I had planned after work tomorrow? When’s my next dentist appointment? Which friend wanted to borrow my car this weekend?</p>

2019-07-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2019/personal-wiki.html/

<p>What’s your favorite way to pack for a weekend trip? What has experience taught you about how to build AWS <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-layers.html">Lambda layers</a>? What’s the name of that you wanted to get at IKEA?</p>

2019-07-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2019/tmi.html/

<p>“AAAAAAA, THERE IS TOO MUCH INFORMATION!” - <em>me, every day</em></p>

2018-11-22T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2018/becoming-a-data-scientist.html/

<p>As a data scientist, one of the most common questions I hear is “How do I become a data scientist? How can I do what you do?”</p>

2018-05-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2018/joining-fred-hutch.html/

<p>After <a href="http://devnambi.com/2018/leaving-uw.html">my last job</a>, I decided to work somewhere already working to make the world more equitable and just. I am fortunate to be a data scientist and engineer; it gives me the opportunity to work in many places.</p>

2018-05-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2018/leaving-uw.html/

<p>It has been six months since I left my job as a data scientist at the <a href="https://washington.edu">University of Washington</a>. I joined the UW in 2012 with the personal goal of helping students graduate with less debt. I (naively) thought this would be possible by making a university more efficient. If students can graduate <em>faster</em>, if the right courses have more space, if UW funds are spent more intelligently, then everyone would benefit.</p>

2017-06-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://devnambi.com/2017/van-buying.html/

<p>Two of my most popular posts have been about the <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/harris-poll-survey-consumer-automotive-index-beepi-frustration/">unpleasant process</a> of <a href="http://devnambi.com/2012/car-buying-best-practices.html">buying a car</a>, including a <a href="http://devnambi.com/2012/car-buying-1.html">replacement</a> <a href="http://devnambi.com/2012/car-buying-2.html">vehicle</a>, and a <a href="http://devnambi.com/2013/cheap-car.html">cheap car</a> for my sister’s family.</p>

2017-01-09T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2017/groceries-using-ratings.html/

<p>Everyone I know has trouble cooking. In my last blog post I looked at the <a href="http://devnambi.com/2017/groceries.html">most common ingredients in 24K recipes</a>. I realized that there was a flaw in my previous post: it treated all recipes equally.</p>

2017-01-05T00:00:00-08:00 http://devnambi.com/2017/groceries.html/

<h3 id="the-benefits-of-cooking">The Benefits of Cooking</h3>