Data scientist, product builder, and founder. Zola 2026-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://geliasrd.com/atom.xml 2026-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 2026-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://geliasrd.com/projects/hello-project-log/ <p>This is the first post in <code>/projects/</code>. I started this space to document the things I’m building — both at work (RuralTrace, FSData, consulting) and on my own time (papers, experiments, side projects).</p> <h2 id="why-a-project-log">Why a project log</h2> <p>A few reasons converged:</p> <ul> <li><strong>External memory.</strong> I find a bug, solve it, forget the solution, hit the same bug six months later. Writing it down once costs less than rediscovering it three times.</li> <li><strong>Sharper thinking.</strong> I notice gaps in my reasoning faster when I have to explain something to a hypothetical reader than when I just keep it in my head.</li> <li><strong>Public surface.</strong> It’s nice to have a single URL to point people at when someone asks “what are you working on?”</li> </ul> <h2 id="what-goes-here">What goes here</h2> <p>Roughly three categories:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Project write-ups</strong> — technical decisions, architecture, what worked, what didn’t. Honest post-mortems.</li> <li><strong>Field notes</strong> — short observations that aren’t worth a full post but shouldn’t be lost. Things like “wrong way to set up a Polars pipeline” or “interesting paper I read on time series clustering.”</li> <li><strong>Tools &amp; dotfiles</strong> — when I configure something the right way after getting it wrong six times, I write down the right way.</li> </ol> <h2 id="markdown-features-this-template-supports">Markdown features this template supports</h2> <p>Inline <code>code</code> works as expected. So do code blocks:</p> <pre data-lang="python" class="language-python "><code class="language-python" data-lang="python"># How I currently bootstrap a new Python project uv init my-project cd my-project uv add polars duckdb pyarrow </code></pre> <p>Bold and <em>italic</em>. <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://geliasrd.com">Links</a> open in a new tab when external.</p> <blockquote> <p>Block quotes for callouts and citations.</p> </blockquote> <p>Lists, both ordered and unordered, render with brutalist accents. Headings (H2, H3) use the same Instrument Serif as the rest of the site.</p> <h2 id="next-up">Next up</h2> <p>The first real post is going to be on how I structure data pipelines at RuralTrace — specifically the decision to use DuckDB as the analytical layer even when the source data lives in Postgres.</p>