Brooks Mershon

Steen Skybolt N23JG Brooks Mershon

I run Mile High Gliding. I used to write code… I still do, too.

I offer ferry pilot services if you need a little airplane moved across the country.

I currently fly a big red biplane in Boulder, Colorado.

EAA 1271516

IAC 440213

🆕 Projects

# Grid Cycles

# The Little Schemer Code

# From Mathematics to Generic Programming

# Category Theory (self-study module) [Wiki]

# SIGGRAPH 2016: A Wide-Eyed Account [PDF] [SRC]

# Hofstadter Sequences

# Equidecomposability

# Laplacian Mesh Editing

# Shape Descriptors

# Procrustes Alignment of 3D Meshes

# Specular Reflections (Echo Simulator 2016)

# WikiBlocks [VIDEO] [SRC]

# Context Sensitive Label Placement

# Reid’s Conservation Legacy

# 2015 Cy Young Tracker

# Teaching Topology with Code [PDF] [SRC]

# Flickr [Medium]

Steen Skybolt N23JG FAA 4034486

EAA 1271516

As of May 2020:

CFI-G, Commercial ASEL/GLIDER, Instrument ASEL
1,100+ Total Time
430+ Tailwheel
40+ makes and models
500+ hours last 12 months
100+ hours last 90 days
300 hours previously owned RV-6
Currently own Skybolt 540, competing in Sportsman (IAC)
900+ PIC glider landings
Experienced commercial glider and tow pilot (Boulder, CO)
- Schweizer 2-32/2-33
- Super Cub (180hp), Pawnee (260hp)
First Class Medical (March, 2020)
26 Male, 152lbs, 5’ 8”

GitHub repositories for longer projects. Some repos are actually teaching materials organized in the spirit of a software project, because teaching is programming. And I love teaching and explaining as I’m learning while leaving a record beind, if only to help externalize memory.
bl.ocks.org for interactive visuals, code snippets, and bite-sized explainers. Often made to teach myself. These are updated frequently and more often than not reflect a day’s effort at playing with a new idea. In the same veign as Mike Bostock’s examples, these blocks help me to break a larger project into smaller self-contained explainers. It’s a good day when I can upload another one of these; like building blocks, these tend to be part of larger and more involved structures.
Observable Notebooks. I have recently started producing interactive educational content on this platform in parallel with the material that I am currently self-studying. I learn best by examples. Observable helps me build examples that keep on giving to both myself and others.

selected entries

Books, essays, films and other resources I have found to be particularly great or enriching. Updated frequently.