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 blog — 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 …

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A Bit of Fastapi for Auth blog — 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.

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Tinkering With Tax Data blog — Using some open source tools to learn about tax data in Denver.

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Big O for Imposters blog — 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).

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Transforming the Team on Your Practical Cloud Journey blog — Reposting a blog I wrote for Woolpert about digital transformation and the necessary culture, learning, and mindset for a successful and practical cloud journey.

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Multiple ssh keypairs and how to use them blog — Finally learning more about ssh keypairs and how to manage them using ssh-agent.

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asdf for Runtime Management blog — 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 …

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

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A Practical Cloud Journey blog — 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.

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Open Source (Geospatial) Data Exploration blog

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