Top Stories published by Parallel Thinking in 2018

Actually Great Vim JavaScript Completion

For a long time the best option for Vim javascript integration was to use Tern.js in combination with YouCompleteMe (YCM). This was a somewhat cumbersome process and I was always envious of my colleagues using VS Code with its awesome built-in JavaScript…


Visualizing Birth Statistics Using D3.js

I’ve been following Mike Bostock, the creator of the excellent d3.js library that powers many of the data visualizations on the web. He has been touting his new platform, Observable HQ, an online javascript notebook environment similar to that of the…


Landsat 8, MATLAB, and the California Drought (Part II)

In the first part of this two part series we looked at how to measure the water level of Cachuma Lake using the Image Processing Toolbox in MATLAB and a Landsat 8 image. We were able to produce a graph showing the decrease in surface…