Ricardo Avila
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I wrangle genomic data for a living and build things for fun.

Crafting Everything

Recent writing on bioinformatics, software, and whatever else I’m working through.

Jan 18, 2026

Extracting Room Boundaries from 3D Scans

Using RANSAC and NDT-RANSAC to detect walls from iPhone photogrammetry scans and extract clean floor plan polygons.

Feb 14, 2025

Making My Own Engagement Ring

I always knew I wanted to make my own engagement ring – even before I was sure that it was possible. It wasn’t just about the challenge (although I do have a habit of…

Apr 24, 2020

Automate Your Linux Desktop: Switching GTK Themes Based on Time of Day

Using systemd timers to automatically switch between light/dark GTK themes in a GNOME desktop.

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Analog Pixels

Film photography and visual work.

Nature Walks in San Francisco

2023 NYC Film Photo Gathering
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Projects

Software and hardware things I’ve built.

obsidian-semantic

A CLI tool for semantic search over Obsidian vaults.

quarto-link-previews

Hover previews for internal links on Quarto websites.

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