Writings | adamr.io

2025

🎮 Lean, Mean, AI-Powered Machine: Why Nintendo Switch 2 Ports Are Defying Expectations

A deep dive into the Nintendo Switch 2's T239 chip architecture and how DLSS, hardware ray tracing, and power efficiency enable current-gen gaming in a portable form factor.
📚 What Makes a Bookstore a 'Third Place'? I Used AI to Find Out

Using network analysis and LLM-powered review classification to explore how bookstores in Brooklyn and Queens function as community spaces.
🖥️ Ticks by Telnet: Load Testing IBM Z Mainframe Terminals with py3270 and Locust

Extending the Locust load testing framework to simulate concurrent 3270 terminal sessions on IBM Z mainframes using py3270, enabling stress testing of legacy green-screen applications via Telnet.

2024

⚡ Open Zesame: Dual Development with Z Open Automation Utilities and z/OS Open Tools

Exploring how Z Open Automation Utilities and z/OS Open Tools modernize mainframe development, enabling Unix-style workflows with tools like jq, curl, and bash to interact with z/OS data sets and system commands.

2023

🔧 Go-ing Native: Porting Grafana k6 to z/OS with Go

A step-by-step account of porting the Grafana k6 load testing tool to run natively on z/OS mainframes using Go, overcoming build flag issues, dependency management, and platform-specific syscall incompatibilities.
🦗 Swarming Stressed Servers: Open-Source Load-Testing on z/OS Mainframes with Locust

An introduction to load testing IBM Z mainframes using the open-source Locust framework, leveraging z/OSMF REST APIs to simulate concurrent users submitting jobs to z/OS.

2019

🎭 Sacred Geometry: On Directing 'Disgraced'

A reflection on directing Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Disgraced' at Wesleyan University, navigating personal identity, creative limitations, and the magic of collaborative theater.
✨ All the Difference | My UNICEF Winternship: Part III

The finale of the UNICEF winternship series, tackling routed distance computation using OSMNX, graph algorithms, concurrency, and Docker to map healthcare accessibility across programme countries.
🌍 Go the Distance | My UNICEF Winternship: Part II

Tackling healthcare accessibility mapping at UNICEF using nearest neighbor algorithms, geospatial analysis with scikit-learn's ball tree, and the Haversine distance metric.
🛤️ The Roads Yet Taken | My UNICEF Winternship: Part I

The beginning of a software engineering internship at UNICEF's Innovation office, working on the open-source Magicbox platform for aggregating and understanding big data in programme countries.
🏛️ The African-American Mecca You've Never Heard of

The story of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- a thriving 20th century African-American community known as 'Black Wall Street' and the devastating 1921 massacre that wiped it off the map.

2018

📟 Red, Black, Cyberpunk | 5 Awesome Retro Gadgets

A nostalgic tour of five stunning consumer electronics from the 1980s and 90s, from the Sony DC-88 Discman to the Sharp X1, celebrating retro design that still catches the eye today.

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