Hi, my name is Duncan Eddy. I like learning, connecting with people, and building things that solve hard problems. I especially like space exploration, satellites, astrodynamics, software, and sharing what I know with others. I'm an engineer that works at the intersection of software engineering, optimization, and aerospace.

I'm currently taking a short break before starting a research fellowship at Stanford, where I'll be working with my old advisor Mykel Kochenderfer and the great students of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab. Prior to this, I was a Principal Applied Scientist Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle.

All opinions are my own.

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Hello World!

As with all good new endeavours, hello world!

I've wanted to get a personal website up and running for a while. I like good minimalistic, aesthetic websites where people can easily read and learn. Blogs like Bartosz Ciechanowski, Marc Brooker, and Tim Bray blogs stand out here. I'd also like for it to be easy to maintain and low-cost (ideally no-cost) to host.

However, the problem is I have the front-end design skills of a potato and am not currently inclined to learn how to build such a blog. Site generators like wordpress I find aren't minimalist enough both in setup nor aesthetic for my tastes, and ideally the entire blog would be maintained as code to make it easy to deploy and scale.

Recently the awesome Material MkDocs project released the blog feature as part of the main feature set thanks to growing sponsor support. With this, I've come up with a simple, zero-maintenance way to host a blog. It uses

I'm testing getting github and cloudflare hooked together to allow me to write posts in markdown and use github Actions to automatically update the website.