Today I Rebuilt My Blog
Help me improve the home page.— layout: post title: “today I rebuilt my blog” date: 2026-04-07 00:00:00 -0700 categories: general update author: Jake —
Hi, I am @jakexshi.
It's never too late to start building! I am here to share my journey.
2026
2024
Good Inside: What If a Parenting Book Could Talk Back?
I recently became a father, and like most new parents, I found myself desperately searching for guidance. A friend recommended Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy, and it quickly b...
Why Now
I’m getting back into writing and building after years of mostly staying quiet. There are two honest answers.
Hi World!
I’m starting a blog. Again.
2019
Focus
There are too many distractions. Social media, news cycles, Slack notifications, the endless scroll of content that feels productive but isn’t.
2018
Exploratory Data Analysis with Python and Yahoo Finance
Following up on my REIT analysis post, I wanted to go deeper into exploratory data analysis (EDA). Same dataset — ROIC, SKT, TCO, SPG, and MAC — but this time I’m walking throug...
Analysing REIT Stocks with Python
I’ve been looking at real estate investment trusts (REITs) lately and wanted to do some basic analysis on a few tickers. The goal: pull stock data from Yahoo Finance, look at ad...
2017
Lump Sum vs. Dollar Cost Averaging: An Apple Stock Analysis
I’ve been curious about a classic investing question: is it better to invest a lump sum all at once, or spread it out over time (dollar cost averaging)? Instead of reading more ...
Your First Step-by-Step Machine Learning Project
I’ve been learning machine learning for a few months now, and the hardest part isn’t the math — it’s knowing where to start. Most tutorials assume you already know what you’re d...
2016
My First Blog Post Using an IPython Notebook
This is it — my first post written entirely as an IPython notebook and published through Nikola. The workflow is:
Setting Up a Blog with Nikola, IPython, and GitHub
I finally got a blog running. It took longer than I expected.