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Michael Anderson

I lead engineering teams building HPC and AI cloud platforms. Outside work I take photographs, mostly at night and at bike races, and build small, careful tools I wish already existed.

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Recent photographs

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  1. · article

    Copying only what's new

    Why I wrote a small macOS app to get photos off a camera card, and what "already imported" should mean.

    #article#project#photo

  2. · article

    Building an automated options trading system

    The first post in a series on building an automated options trading platform, from idea to production.

    #article#trading#senex

  3. · video

    Northern lights, November 2025

    Two hours of the aurora over the backyard trees, 1,039 frames long.

    #timelapse#night#video#aurora

  4. · video

    Milky Way over the Boundary Waters

    Seventy-five minutes before dawn under a Boundary Waters sky, compressed into a few seconds of the Milky Way turning over the pines.

    #timelapse#night#video#bwca

Projects

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Andermic Photo Importer

Swift · macOS 13+ · MIT

preparing release

A lightweight native macOS app that copies only new photo and video originals from a camera card into ordinary date or event folders.

bookpolicy

Python · Python 3.12+ · MIT

preparing release

Scores an options action against the book you already hold, putting opening, closing, and doing nothing on one scale.

Poundlock Toolkit

Python · Linux & macOS · Python 3.11+ · MIT

preparing release

Find out which local models, runtimes, and settings actually work on your hardware, then compare the results.