replit • 10th February 2024

Python Final Project: Zotero Big Library Search

Zotero Big Library Helper: I made this little program as a final project for a Python course I took.

23rd December 2023

LitLinks

Kaggle • 4th June 2023

📚22+ Years of Reading: An EDA📚

Reading is really important to me...Tracking what & how much I read is something of a meta-hobby.

Kaggle • 24th May 2023

🫐🫐🫐blueberries for kaggle🫐🫐

For Kaggle's Playground Series, S3E14 (Pi!)

Private • 19th April 2023

On Shoes Ad Prototype: "It's On"

"It's on trend. On point. On track. On you. This fall."

Easy Sunlight • 17th March 2023

Here comes the sun! What you need to know about indoor tanning, tanning oil, and sun safety in 2023

As the Beatles put it, "It's been a long, cold, lonely winter." You've been waiting for the sun all winter. Nothing beats that first, gorgeous sunny day. And you want to shine with gorgeous skin starting on that very first sunny day.

One of the best things you can do is thoroughly research tanning oil to make sure that you can protect your skin, whether you go tanning inside or out.

Photo by Binyamin Mellish on Pexels

Kaggle • 19th February 2023

🏡Housing Data Competition Pt 1: EDA 🏡

"My main goals at this point were to improve my EDA and data visualization skills, particularly with Seaborn and Bokeh. The McMansion factor was fun and good practice with dataframes (and learning markup for citations and such), though I'm sure in the end these are merely collinear and intuitive phenomena."

Web • 5th February 2023

"Annoying Class Discussion Starter Pack"

Content developed for the "starter pack" subreddit on behalf of a client. We've all been there - The annoying class discussion, I mean. Not r/starterpacks. ;-)

UP Blog • 9th January 2023

Plagiarism Checking: Does it really work? – The Unemployed Professors Blog

Plagiarism checking has become an unfortunate extra step in the drudgery of the essay writing process. Thanks to the arms race between students and teachers, the general dynamic is that all students are presumed guilty of plagiarism until proven innocent by a for-profit algorithm. With that lovely thought in mind, let’s explore the fascinating world of online plagiarism checkers...

UP Blog • 3rd January 2023

AI Essay Writing: The Risks of Using An Essay Bot – The Unemployed Professors Blog

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or in a coma, you’ve probably heard about the explosion of new AI programs that help with writing. The development of a technology called GPT-3, which basically an operating system for artificial intelligence text, has kickstarted a burgeoning industry in AI essay writing. TikTok and YouTube have exploded with ads touting AI essay writing or “typing” services that churn out essays almost as fast as Unemployed Professors’ writers after an espresso or three.

Kindle Vella • 22nd August 2022

Passions Rising: A Story of Civil War New Orleans, Love, and Bread | Kindle Vella

Apprentice baker Mary has always been lucky: Lucky to survive the yellow fever that killed her family, and luckier still to capture the interest of a local philanthropist. She is determined to excel even if that means she has to tame her voice & personality just as she must tame her flaming curls. With a potential suitor courting and adventures with her best friend, Letty, her future feels bright. Maybe she hasn't used up all her luck yet. But she'll need luck with what's coming...

The Motley Fool • 20th July 2022

Solana Foundation Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Alleging SOL Is a Security

Could a class action lawsuit filed against the creators and early investors in Solana (SOL -0.19%) impact your ability to invest in crypto? Some commenters worry it might. A new lawsuit circulates around the question of whether cryptocurrency is a security. Alleging that the defendants were involved in illegal securities trading, the suit could be a harbinger of disruptive rulings revisiting whether crypto is a security and whether non-accredited investors can participate – or it could be a noth

The Motley Fool • 6th July 2022

Is "Solana Summer" (Finally) Upon Us?

Many crypto analysts have spurned Solana (SOL -0.14%) as an Ethereum knockoff, but it may finally be coming into its own. If crypto intrigues you, but the high prices and environmental impact of Bitcoin and Ethereum are turn-offs, maybe you've heard of Solana as an alternative. Is "Solana Summer" an investment opportunity? Solana differs from Bitcoin and Ethereum in some fundamental ways, and its current price is an attractive entry point.

The Motley Fool • 27th June 2022

Can Etsy Knit Together a Recession-Proof Plan?

If you think Etsy's (ETSY -3.55%) business model as an e-commerce platform offering craft luxuries will struggle during a bear market, think again. Etsy has some unique advantages that other digital sales platforms like Amazon, Shopify, and eBay lack. It has also proven to be a resilient and adaptive company. Etsy was successful during the peak of the pandemic, when it became a go-to source for masks, while e-commerce giants like Amazon struggled to keep up with demand. This shows that during a

The Motley Fool • 17th June 2022

Coinbase is Tarnishing Its First-Mover Advantage

Coinbase Global (COIN 7.47%), the biggest American cryptocurrency exchange, has had a terrible year so far. Coinbase has dominated headlines in 2022 thanks to disappointing first-quarter earnings, a hiring freeze followed by broad layoffs, and macroeconomic factors that have sent crypto into a tailspin. Analysts and investors alike tend to conflate Coinbase with crypto and crypto markets – but it is time to separate Coinbase from crypto and ask some hard questions about the company's strategy, i

Substack • 13th April 2022

NFT Project Failures, Part One

I’ve been trading NFT’s since late September, which in NFT time is about 400,000 years. In that time, I’ve witnessed many failed projects, and I’ve even been taken in by a couple of them. Since everything is a learning opportunity, I thought it might be useful if I wrote about NFT project failures. What does it mean for an NFT project to fail? How does it happen? Are there warning signs, particularly for legitimate projects that don’t otherwise raise red flags?

Substack • 8th April 2022

NFT Tips for Your Friday: Minting from a Contract

"Let’s talk about minting NFT’s directly from the contract. I’m going to explain what minting from the contract is, why you should do it, how to do it, and a few other things that I think are important..."

29th March 2022

Reviewing NFT Tools Part 2: My Review of Nansen

"I’m not getting into theology here, but if Nansen’s NFT God Mode represents what a God can do, then gods are more limited than we may have thought."

NFT News for Normies • 28th March 2022

Reviewing NFT Tools, Part 1

Welcome to my first multi-part series! This week, I’ll be discussing and reviewing NFT tools. These should not be mistaken for the “utility” that NFT’s increasingly promise, though many NFT’s promise “utility” that might sound vaguely like “tools.” When I refer to tools, I mean services that primarily provide features or data analysis related to the NFT market and its transactions.

NFT tools promise to refine the signal to noise ratio of the market...

Private • 1st February 2022

The House (THH): An Art-Focused P2E NFT Trading Card Game

Bull Case: The art and story are fantastic, and the creator has focused on organic growth. A slow mint out is not the kiss of death but rather could allow for the same kind of organic growth as in the anticipation phase, which will attract engaged and enthusiastic investors instead of quick flippers. The team is mostly IRL-doxed and the creator appears to be heavily involved in NFT’s, so the likelihood of a rug is very low.
Bear Case: This is an overly ambitious project that’s simultaneously ahead of its time and just a different kind of wrapper on the clichéd PVE/P2E meta. The team rushed community building, resulting in a failed launch. The 10k size and “nerdy” premise, combined with an initial presale per-wallet limit of 3, has killed momentum for a concept that already had tepid support at best. Launching the same week as Starkade, Raid Party, and Cyber Turtles was a bad choice and the creator seems to have put most of his resources in art and backend development rather than in community building. Six months is not enough to realize the metaverse-playable game.
Red flag count: About 8 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

Unlimited Story • 21st September 2021

Writing Historical Fiction with Audrey Sapper | How to Research & Find Resources In History Writing

I interview Audrey Sapper, author of Passion Rising to discuss historical fiction and how to find resources for writing...

Web • 1st September 2021

Web Copy: Unemployed Professors (2021)

"ARE WE RIGHT FOR YOU?
You: Someone who has it all – except words. Busy, successful, hopefully not a big Nickelback fan.
Us: We’re the Words People. Professional know-it-alls who have seen it all, done it all, and met all the deadlines. We’ll be whatever you want us to be, baby. Except a Nickelback fan. There are limits."

21st April 2021

Instantly Clicked : No Comments. Just Conversation

Unlike certain social media companies, we value your privacy. We’re not going to police what you say, and we’re not going to spy on you to sell you things. Privacy is central to Instantly Clicked, even though it seems to have been lost in the rest of the world. We have to assume that everything we put on social media is public, and that it is permanent...

Etsy • 27th January 2021

Pyurely Web Copy and Communications Templates

"..."all-natural” is more than just a phrase to me. It’s a belief system. All-natural ingredients are a reflection of my faith in the world’s riches. I have always preferred to be outdoors, and I grew up in a family that loved hiking, camping, and going to the beach. My childhood memories are dappled with bright sunlight on wildflowers and suffused with the scent of the forest on a summer morning. These experiences gave me an early love for natural beauty and the natural world. That’s why I like to say I grew up wealthy. I choose to look for surrounding beauty wherever I am, and I often choose to surround myself with natural beauty by spending my time outdoors in our beautiful world’s vast natural wealth."