Articles by Jon

Chapter 1: The Brompton Beginnings This begins with me ~~stealing~~ saving Cindy's Brompton. She's drunk the Marie Kondo koolaid and has been purging everything that's fun from her garage. For a long time I was only using it as a dog runner at nights since the low top-tube made it … Read more ...

D3 & speed upgrades to Eightyninenine.com After 3 or 4 years of leaving it to its own devices, I finally had the time to do some major fixes to eightyninenine.com. Important changes: replaced all the highcharts.js-based plots with my own d3.js versions. artist/song bar charts have … Read more ...

A KCRW Data Site [eightyninenine.com](http://www.eightyninenine.com) is the cleverest url I could come up with for my new site. It's in reference to both 89.9, the broadcast frequency in LA for KCRW and the (widely popular?) data/statistics site fivethirtyeight.com. The site exists because … Read more ...

If you Google around for things like "mass delete flickr album", you'll find a lot of people on personal blogs and the flickr forum complaining about Flickr's desktop auto-uploader creating a friggin massive amount of albums. The uploader creates an album for every single folder it finds for your photos … Read more ...

I had a trip to South Korea in September, for a fusion engineering conference on Jeju Island ([my work was... OK](http://www.mae.ucla.edu/jon-van-lew-wins-best-student-award-at-isfnt/)). After the conference I took a side trip to Seoul to visit some old Korean friends I hadn't seen since 2008. Back in … Read more ...

I'm pretty underwhelmed with many of the [pictures I took from Switzerland](https://www.flickr.com/photos/jtvanlew/sets/72157636528671866/), but they're up on flickr. This one almost faithfully recreates the majesty of the Alps. This was taken on top of Rothorn, near Brienz. I think the major issue I … Read more ...

The Surly Ogre is a work horse. I've strapped a small refrigerator to the back of it and ridden down the hills from UCLA without even a blink at the load. Its beauty is in its strength. Read more ...

The poor SOMA gets a facelift whenever the devil gets a hold of my idle hands. This is from last Fall. I think I've put 4 different handlebars on since then. No more fenders. A triple crank up front. Its a never-ending project. Read more ...