I'm a full time Rust (& less-time: Python and C) software engineer specializing in planning systems, though I have worked in state estimation and analytics in the past. I currently work at FlightScience.ai. For a more official look see ↗ josh.vanderhook.info.

# latest posts

About that Hugging Face hack

Please can we move past treating these as ‘impartial moralty tests for all of AI’ and ignoring OpenAI’s incentives? view full post
ai llm

About that jr hiring freeze

A portfolio stopped signalling effort or talent, so the portfolio-only candidate lost their value view full post
ai llm software-engineering writing

Book report: The Invisible Hook

Everything a layperson knows about pirates, united under self-interested rationality view full post
books writing

Book report: 2001: A Space Odyssey

OK, fine, Clarke is an absolute genius and the movie ending does actually make sense view full post
books writing

AFT Scorecard

An Army Fitness Test scorecard: shows your score, works offline, tracks progress over time. view full post
projects software-engineering

# some external projects

KDA-tools @ crates.io/crates/kda-tools

  • Moneyball utilities for any game with a KDA. cargo install kda-tools
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AFT Scorecard @ aft.jodavaho.io

  • An Army Fitness Test scorecard. Shows your score, works offline, tracks progress over time.
  • related posts

Space Missions @ api.jodavaho.io/s/

  • Calculating interesting things for some of my favorite NASA missions.
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AENAC Devices @ aenac.dev

  • Networked devices that are: Rugged Repairable Openly Extensible and Manufactured in the USA.
  • (not as active as I'd like)

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