Between working as a User Assistant and studying computer science, I've produced a good number of science- and computer-related documents, some of which might interest the general public. A number of these are also specifically written for UAs.
Some of the documents also have related files which are available in the downloads section.
Mainly For UAs
- Using Procmail: information on how to use the mail filtering system; presented at a UA meeting
- Using Unix: Not (yet) available in HTML; currently in a Powerpoint presentation and a PDF document of common commands.
For the General Public
- A Theoretical Taxonomy and Analysis of Anti-Spam Technologies, my senior honors thesis.
- The Vi/Vim Text Editor, the one truly great text editor which has surely proven its worth over that other Mac-like thing and the infamously small text editor that comes with Pine.
- Mnemonics for the Amino Acids which I developed, along with other students at the US National Chemistry Olympiad. You might also be interested in my story about the International Chemistry Olympiad.
- A Java Instant Messaging system, developed over the summer of 2001, which demonstrates multithreading, distributed computing, hierarchical object-oriented program design, and all sorts of other wonderful computer concepts, none of which were in my mind while I wrote the program
- A useful application of the Y combinator to create infinite-dimension hashes in Ruby.