https://tjrileywisc.github.io/Portfolio and project blog for Timothy Riley, mechanical engineer focused on design, analysis, and engineering projects. 2026-04-01T17:25:12+00:00 Timothy Riley https://tjrileywisc.github.io/ Jekyll © 2026 Timothy Riley /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://tjrileywisc.github.io/posts/using-claude/ Timothy Riley

I’ve been spending more time writing code with Claude on one of my github projects. I didn’t have access to something like this in my most recent role so I am coming in a little late on this. It would be so easy to just vibe away and give it the reins, fully trusting it with what I want to do. As I’m trying to do an analysis of housing development in my city though, I’d really prefer to be clo...

2026-02-27T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://tjrileywisc.github.io/posts/historical-review/ Timothy Riley

Like many other communities, Waltham’s zoning code has become so restrictive, such that we now have a housing cost crisis. This is both unfair to decent people trying to make a living in our city, and just holds back progress for silly reasons. One of the rules in our zoning code seeks to preserve local character by subjecting old structures to historical review whenever demolition is proposed...

2026-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://tjrileywisc.github.io/posts/llm-musing/ Timothy Riley

Thinking about how LLM models that generate code will affect software engineers. I could see more code generated by senior level engineers leading to higher quality outputs than we have at the moment (inasmuch as more recently generated code can be weighted as more desirable). Is it enough of a threat that experienced software engineers might need to start worrying about job security? Who knows...

2026-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://tjrileywisc.github.io/posts/react-practice/ Timothy Riley

My meeting transcription project was always going to have a web interface. I’m not trying for anything fancy here - for now I want to show the video, a list of videos that can be loaded, and when a video is showing, show the transcription with the identified speaker. Eventually I’ll try for some sort of search and maybe an edit function when speakers are wrong. My webdev skills needed some bru...

2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://tjrileywisc.github.io/posts/speaker-identification/ Timothy Riley

I’ve been playing around with WhisperX and a project idea I’ve had for a while. It’s unfortunate that so many decisions that most impact our lives is made at the level of government with the least oversight - the local level. Our built environment is largely left to local government, which affects the quality of our schools and our local economy (among many other things), but they also get the...