Tim Burns
Development Team in a Rut? Start with Yourself
I'm in a principal role at my current company, and like every development team, it's easy to get lost in the constant noise of daily...
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The Owl Mountain Blog is the authors views on the Fascianting World of Data
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Tim Burns
Aug 21 min read
Data Scraping Tools
Interesting data scraping companies and tools. The internet is a wealth of data, and data scraping is a bit dodgy in terms of how you get...
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Tim Burns
Jul 11 min read
Filling the Gaps with CAP
Even seasoned architects have gaps in their understanding. After an interesting conversation with fellow data architects, I found a...
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Tim Burns
Jun 233 min read
Personal Core Work Values
My Zoom Background: A selfie from a beautiful day with my daughter Work is a changing process. I have new tasks, colleagues,...
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Tim Burns
Jun 191 min read
Juneteenth
On this Juneteenth, remember that the fight against racism keeps going. BLM. I'm not working today, thanks to the hard work of people...
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Tim Burns
Jun 91 min read
Providence Porchfest '24
Maddie Cardoza at Providence Porchfest '24 Had a wonderful day yesterday at Porchfest.
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Tim Burns
Jun 11 min read
Summer '24
How many Summers do I have left? Probably not as many as I wish. I feel good that this Summer is packed with concerts, camping,...
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Tim Burns
May 251 min read
Sunrise
Wouldn't it be amazing if there were a mindfulness app to support mindfulness from the point of developers? It's challenging to go from...
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Tim Burns
May 124 min read
Post-pandemic is a Golden Age for Developers
The author completed a Coursera course on AI while waiting for his laundry. I spent the bulk of my career at a company called “Retail...
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Tim Burns
May 43 min read
Hiking with the Ghosts of the Quakers
A Quaker Cemetary (Photo by Author) The Quakers have Left their Graves. Quakers immigrated to New England in the mid-1650s, over 300...
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Tim Burns
Apr 202 min read
Imagine Changes
The Author in Chicago Out of all the tools we have to solve problems, imagination is a problem-solving we can control and perhaps is the...
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Tim Burns
Apr 133 min read
Persistence and Transience - Navigating the Modern Data Architecture
Exhibit at the Southern VT Arts Center A Case for Transient Data Sources The modern data architecture spans a wide range of data storage....
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Tim Burns
Mar 242 min read
What do I get from serving a church?
Photo Courtesy of Leslie Long, who made this Fairy Garden Today I'm sharing my role in our church's Commitment Drive with Sunday school...
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Tim Burns
Feb 101 min read
Carto, Snowflake, and Data Management
A basic principle of data management: Don't move data unless you have to. Moving data is expensive and error-prone. Data Egress Cost:...
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Tim Burns
Dec 30, 20231 min read
KEXP Live 2023 Wrapup
I listen to KEXP Live every chance I get. For an end-of-year visualization, I looked at a year-over-year comparison of all the artists...
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Tim Burns
Dec 30, 20231 min read
Music Festivals 2024
I am browsing music festivals I'd like to attend in 2024. I work for Evolve.com which manages vacation properties and my search came up...
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Tim Burns
Dec 24, 20232 min read
Incoming for 2024: Clickhouse OLAP
I maintain a project that tracks playlist data on KEXP Radio playlists and publishes the latest trending music to my Tableau public...
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Tim Burns
Dec 17, 20232 min read
Agile Meeting Effectiveness
I recently contributed to a LinkedIn thread on Sprint Reviews in Agile. The Sprint Review is one of the many meetings in Scrum, and it...
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Tim Burns
Dec 14, 20231 min read
Scrum Master Pro-Tip
Cancel as many meetings as you can. Schedule a meeting to set the stakes Use Slack or Teams to resolve blocks on the day of the meeting...
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Tim Burns
Dec 9, 20231 min read
What other blogs am I reading
here are some blogs that caught my interest today. I spend at least 4 hours a month in various company meetings....
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