Blog

I tend to write blogs less frequently that TIL’s. So they are typically longer and dig a little deeper.

Operating Principles a.k.a. How We Work

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This is a lightly obfuscated version of something I wrote for the technical team at Woolpert Cloud Solutions. It reflects the values I promote for the team and my ethos around enabling people to make …

A Bit of Fastapi for Auth

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Learning more about JWT as a way to encode claims by getting hands-on with FastAPI, a relative newcomer to the Python family of web frameworks.

Tinkering With Tax Data

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Using some open source tools to learn about tax data in Denver.

Big O for Imposters

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A short and probably obvious statement for people who studied computer science. But for me is not obvious and took a short bit of reading on Big(O).

Transforming the Team on Your Practical Cloud Journey

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Reposting a blog I wrote for Woolpert about digital transformation and the necessary culture, learning, and mindset for a successful and practical cloud journey.

Multiple ssh keypairs and how to use them

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Finally learning more about ssh keypairs and how to manage them using ssh-agent.

asdf for Runtime Management

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Using asdf as an alternative to homebrew for managing language runtimes like Python and Ruby. It provides a holistic solution to the same problem that pyenv and nvm and rvm solve for specific …

Coding Exercise in Go

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Answering my own coding exercise using Go and sharing a couple of things I learned along the way about JSON and concurrency.

A Practical Cloud Journey

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Re-posting the kickoff to Woolpert’s 2021 Practical Cloud Journey series. It’s all about customer value, not getting ahead of yourself (or your competence), and the importance of context.

Open Source (Geospatial) Data Exploration

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