The upside to a regular job is a regular paycheck! The downside is that it distracts me from all the interesting things I can solo as a...

The Magnificant Icosahedron In Dungeons and Dragons, all characters have backstories. The iconic d20 also has a heroic backstory as a...

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...

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...

Even seasoned architects have gaps in their understanding. After an interesting conversation with fellow data architects, I found a...

My Zoom Background: A selfie from a beautiful day with my daughter Work is a changing process. I have new tasks, colleagues,...

On this Juneteenth, remember that the fight against racism keeps going. BLM. I'm not working today, thanks to the hard work of people...

Maddie Cardoza at Providence Porchfest '24 Had a wonderful day yesterday at Porchfest.

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,...

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...

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...

A Quaker Cemetary (Photo by Author) The Quakers have Left their Graves. Quakers immigrated to New England in the mid-1650s, over 300...

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...

Exhibit at the Southern VT Arts Center A Case for Transient Data Sources The modern data architecture spans a wide range of data storage....

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...

A basic principle of data management: Don't move data unless you have to. Moving data is expensive and error-prone. Data Egress Cost:...

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...

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...

I maintain a project that tracks playlist data on KEXP Radio playlists and publishes the latest trending music to my Tableau public...

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...