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What Kind of Hiker Am I?

Even after living in and exploring the wilderness of Arizona for two years I still consider myself a Michigan hiker. It's only fair, in some ways: my hunger for the outdoors started in the Upper Peninsula and I spent seven years up there hunting waterfalls and old growth and forgotten places. Two…

  • Category Personal
  • Posted October 24, 2016
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Finding the Closest X to Y

Following roads to get distance information

Finding the distance between different locations is a programming task that I've done a number of times. The idea seems simple - the user wants to know the closest branch, store, or distributor relative to them. Ignoring some possible use cases (commuting routes, varying convenient starting…

  • Category Web Development
  • Posted April 21, 2013
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  • Read The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1) by Samantha Shannon.
  • Read Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) by Robin Hobb.
  • Pushed some code at jacobemerick/advent-of-code-2022.
  • Pushed some code at jacobemerick/web.
  • Pushed some code at jacobemerick/web.
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