Software Engineering
Coding, Python, web development, architecture, and deployment
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Making Things Happen
There’s a limit to the things a single developer can accomplish as part of a project. I get a great deal from checking things off my todo list. You can write great code and propose great ideas, but there’s a limit to what a single person can accomplish without a team. A team can accomplish…
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Finished a Game – First time in a Decade
For the first time in maybe a decade I played a game all the way through to the finish. I don’t have much time to play games, but I’ve been chipping away at Portal 15 minutes at a time. Not sure if it was intentional, but it seemed a little too easy. Like geared towards…
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Producing Video and Audio
Over the last several weeks I have been doing quite a bit of learning. One of the things I’m doing more of is going deeper on producing video and audio content for podcasting and YouTube channels. My home office now has enough equipment to do an adequate job with audio and video production. My YouTube…
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My Genius Ideas Notebook
Last year I started a notebook specifically to collect ideas that I feel are particularly innovative or interesting. I keep it on my desk – one of the few things. While I believe that ideas are usually worthless without taking the action to implement them, or at least further investigate their feasibility. Collecting ideas into…
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3D Printing
For Christmas this year, I got a 3D printer to add to my ever busier home office. My hope with the printer is to create more in 2019. And I have a backlog of ideas for things I want to make with it. I hit a wall with my bike design a couple months ago…
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No More News
I have been finding myself increasingly frustrated with the amount of American news that I see as a Canadian. On many topics it seems like I know more about what is happening in another country than in my own. A sad state of affairs. Most of these things are actually meaningless to me personally. Decisions…
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Media Distractions
“Are you distracted by breaking news? Then take some leisure time to learn something good, and stop bouncing around.” – Marcus Aurelius It can be difficult to block the media from your view. Over the last year or more I have been trying to limit my access. Several years ago, I was having a conversation…
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Trying Windows
Time for me to get a new Laptop and for the last couple of months I have been delaying on the purchase. I’ve been a Mac user for the last 12 years and used Linux before that. The last time I actively used a Windows PC was around the year 1999. So a switch to…
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Personal Cloud
It kind of snuck up on me a bit over the years. I have got a rather decent collection of computers running for various different side projects over the years. At home I run a local NAS file server 24/7 for local backups and as a shared place to access files from other computers and…
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A Surprising Year
I was about to write a blog post about how 2017 was one of the least dramatic years, but then skimmed through my past 12 months of blog posts and realized just how much did happen. We didn’t move, or have another baby. However, these are some of the highlights: Ada started school! I learned…
