As with the 2024 Europe post, this is nearly identical copy of the original Europe trip website (see post here), though this time with one more iteration.
There are a few videos that are embedded in the posts.
The site is at japan24.bentonw.com
I am a software developer who tends to gravitate towards full-stack projects, but I also enjoy learning by working on small, interesting little side projects. Have fun exploring the site!
Spain 2024
Work + Travel from all around Spain
A nearly identical copy of the original Europe trip website (see post here), though this time with:
- Integration with Apple Photos
- Location data pulled from photos
- A fun color theme
- General small improvements
- Working remote from Spain with friends
The site is at europe24.bentonw.com
Europe Trip
Fun with Google Docs, SmugMug, and some fitness data
Over summer 2022, I went on a trip to Europe with my dad, and during that trip, my dad kept a record of what we did each day in a Google Doc. At some point, I started working on using the Google Docs API to automatically pull information to build a website. Slowly, more sources of data were integrated into the site (fitness data, photos, location checkins), and at the end, the site rebuilt automatically ~once per day, pulling in any new information from the various content sources.
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LightShow
Package for abstracting light shows (part of Master's Thesis)
From spring of 2021 to fall of 2022, I worked on getting my Master’s from MIT. Fortunately, I was able to explore my own interests for my thesis, as my funding came from being a teaching assistant for one of the courses.
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Interactive Path Tracer
Final Project for 6.837, and a lot of debugging
In fall of 2021, I took the class 6.837, titled Computer Graphics, which involved learning about as well as implementing some of the techniques for rendering images. One topic that we covered is path tracing, which essentially consists of calulating the color of each pixel in a rendered output by bouncing rays randomly around the 3D scene, and aggregating the result.
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Incarceration Rates Visualization
D3.js, JavaScript, and fun making icons move.
During the spring semester of my senior year at MIT (2021), I took a class titled Iteractive Data Visualization (6.859 at the time, though that number is probably outdated). The class focused heavily on learning D3.js, and the final project was a rather open ended visualization that we could create in groups.
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Database programming competition
Final class project for 6.830 (Database Systems)
Code Link The code for this project can be viewed on GitHub, and a more extensive writeup of some of the work can be found on this pdf.
In spring of 2021, I took a class on database systems. This class covered various topics around designing different types of databases, and some of the advantages/disadvantages of each, but at the end of the course, one option for the final project was to do a performance based competition, where we try to optimize a program to run certain queries efficiently.
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