Tolki’s Stack - 2023 edition
In January 2020 I made a blog post explaining my tech stack. At the time of writing I was leaning heavily into Python, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, FastAPI, and Doc...
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Development
Unifying League of Legends Data
In my two years working on League of Legends data, I have acquired data from: The Riot Games API The Leaguepedia API Community s...
Realistic Python and Docker work flow
Docker is the new be-all-end-all of environment management for software development. By providing a concise and heavily customizable way to handle dependenci...
Tolki’s LoL data tech stack - 2020
A year and a half ago, my first blog post was about the tech stack I had settled on for League of Legends data analysis. At that time, I had only re-started ...
Optimizing LoL builds through Machine Learning
Finding the right items and runes builds in LoL yields high returns at a minimal cost to players. It is an important part of the analyst’s job as finding tho...
Pioneering data-driven esports analysis
As the lead member of our data analysis branch, I had to build our system from scratch and choose which technologies to use for every part of the stack. I th...
Analysis
S12 catch up
Big changes
Productivity
The perfect shell
The older I get the more I enjoy just doing as much as I can in a terminal. There’s something about the lack of distractions, simplicity of the interface, an...
Keyboards, Shortcuts, and Vim layouts
There are nerds, but even among nerds there are things where I go above and beyond traditional nerdiness. One of those things is keyboards and shortcuts.
My note-taking journey - A foray into Personal Knowledge Management systems
The biggest reason I’ve managed to enter École polytechnique is my note-taking love coupled with my ability to synthetize.
Personal
From underdogs to Worlds quarter finalists — A year at Splyce
This is the first in a series of articles looking back at my year 2019. As the introduction, this one is pretty personal and focused on what I learned during...
Coaching
The perfect League of Legends coaching staff
How to organize coaching in League of Legends is still a pretty contentious point. Each team has its own way of doing it, and the coaching staffs varies wild...