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Name: Christopher De Vries

Type: User

Bio: I [mostly] enjoy programming things from small 8-bit microcontrollers to large distributed systems. I prefer lights that slowly vary rather than blink. he/him

Twitter: nissyen

Location: Fryeburg, ME

Blog: https://unnecessary.tech/

I'm Christopher De Vries. I once was an astronomer, earning my Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I went on to do postdoctoral work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and to become a tenured professor at California State University Stanislaus before giving it all up to become a reclusive hermit.

I've also helped characterize the debris in low Earth orbit at NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center, I've written iPhone and iPad apps for Tech 2000 (now lumious), pushed back the frontiers of human and machine knowledge for Hindsait, and now I keep the internet running with my team at Secunetics.

My professional interests include:

statistical modeling and analysis
network security
systems monitoring and alerting
programming (mostly python and Go)

In my spare time I tend to program small microcontrollers to make lights blink on and off in assorted and interesting colors. At work I do the same thing, just in higher resolution. I also have a web site where I largely forget to post updates.

Christopher De Vries's Projects

accountkit-bottle

The Facebook Account Kit demo translated to python bottle

adl_lrs

ADL's Open Source Learning Record Store (LRS) is used to store learning data collected with the Experience API.

advent_of_code_2019

Advent of code 2019

advent_of_code_2020

Advent of Code 2020 in Go

advent_of_code_2021

My solutions for Advent of Code 2021! It's the most wonderful time of the year.

advent_of_code_2022

The most wonderful time of the year!

advent_of_code_2023

The most wonderful time of the year!

algo

Set up a personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud

alpine

A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

analytic_infall

Analytic 1-D radiative transfer model of blue-asymmetric spectral line profiles from infalling molecular clouds. The model is presented in the paper, "Molecular Line Profile Fitting with Analytic Radiative Transfer Models" by De Vries & Myers (2005).