Tag Archives: build-in-public

SimurgArray going public: what it takes, and a calendar

By | September 30, 2026

Part 4 of 5. Right now SimurgArray lives in a private repository on my own Git server. It has a license, a changelog, a user guide, wheels, a Docker image and a version number that just became 2.0.0. In other words, it looks public. It is not, yet. Publishing code is easy. Publishing it responsibly… Read More: SimurgArray going public: what it takes, and a calendar »

From Bioreactors to Brier Scores: Building Model90, a Football Prediction Engine

By | July 5, 2026

What happens when a bioreactor engineer points his state-estimation toolkit at football. Model90 is a statistical forecasting engine for the 2026 World Cup and the major leagues, built on Dixon-Coles Poisson, Elo, xG and a calibrated meta-model. An honest look at how it works and what its Brier score really means.

CellSeg v0.1.0 is out

By | May 8, 2026

Three months ago I started building an Android app to count cells. Today the first public build is up, and I’d like to introduce it properly. It’s called CellSeg, and it does one stubborn small thing: it lets a bench scientist take a picture of a microscopy sample with their phone and get a cell… Read More: CellSeg v0.1.0 is out »

The bench problem that wouldn’t go away

By | May 7, 2026

There’s a thing that happens in a tissue culture lab that I’ve never quite gotten used to, even after years of doing it. You pull a sample from a flask or a bioreactor, you load it onto a counting chamber, you put your eye to the microscope, and then you spend the next several minutes… Read More: The bench problem that wouldn’t go away »