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Dad Status Indicator
How I created a simple status indicator for my family to know when I am on a call while working from home.
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DIY Quad Monitor Stand
While working from home has been a normal for me for some time, the 2020 COVID-19 social distancing mandate has added another element to making my home office even more functional. This time around, I wanted to finally get a rig set up so that I could effectively use all four of the LCD monitors […]
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Health and fitness
Year of Health – Baseline Allergy Measures
One of my 2019 goals is to Eat like a Vegan, motivated by a desire to overcome some longstanding health conditions. One step along this path was requesting a Food Sensitivity blood test during my last annual physical, which happened to be during the last week of 2018. Here are the results, which represent not […]
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Craftsmanship
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Spaghetti was easier
A couple weeks ago, I saw the following image in my Twitter feed: I, for one, am old enough to have lived through all 3 of these paradigms for software architecture. The team on which I am a part has been strategically tasked largely with taking a spaghetti codebase and moving to ravioli. So the […]
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2019 Goals (in one Tweet)
Ah, the new year. Time again to set some goals for personal and professional development. I’m going simple this year, as tweeted: Let’s break these out a bit more. Code More. One of the big changes in 2018 was taking a new job as Principal Software Engineer at FM:Systems. In this role, much more than […]
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