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Make something small
A small celebration and reminder that you can always learn something new and have a small project. I decided to whittle a cat for my wife's birthday, and found a lot of joy in doing something new and little. I've found its easy to get swept up in the hustle & bustle of the current tech industry, needing to stay on the leading edge and feeling all the fatigue and angst that comes along with it. It's a nice reminder to step back and just do something else for a bit. It doesn't have to be grand, o
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Using AI in my day job constantly has been a bit of a drag, because the old problem solving dopamine that used to come with cracking an interesting code problem is more or less gone away. However, it's been good to realize I can find that same joy in working around my house. I recently updated & added some outlets throughout my house, including making sure new outlets that were missing ground wiring were downstream of GFCI outlets, and I finally got to use those same problem solving & debugging skills that have been dormant for too long again. It felt great to stretch those muscles out again.
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KOReader, Readest, and Readeck for an OSS Reading Powerhouse
I don't want to be too grand, but I may have achieved e-reading nirvana. I've had a refurbished 7th gen Kindle paperwhite since 2020, and it's been absolutely wonderful and reliable all this time. I bought from a third party reseller, since I figured Bezos has enough cash as-is. Same goes for avoiding buying Kindle books specifically, since they're licensed, and not owned. So throughout it's lifespan, it's been used primarily for library books and DRM-free ebooks, which has been well & good, an
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SSO Delivers Real Business Value for Enterprise Applications
Wrote a short blog post for work about the value of SSO integrations, since I feel like I've done so many recently for work.
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Cincy AI Augmented Engineers Meetup
A solid new-ish meetup for discussing how AI is affecting software engineering jobs. It's nice to connect with local folks about how fast things are changing, and see the varying opinions / rates of adoption in person, rather than just online.
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Ship the Damn Thing
This is about working with AI, the heartburn I feel about using it, and why I use it anyway. I don't know that how I feel is completely "right," I'm sure it's not morally sound, but I think it's a way that a lot of other developers like me are probably feeling now too. I've had this site up & running for quite a while now. Probably since about October 2024, when the first commit was (I don't know when I actually put it on a server with a domain though... knowing me it could have been months lat
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Studying for Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
I managed to pass the cert test for AZ-104 today, and I'll be honest it was not easy. There's nothing quite like watching every review video say "don't feel bad if you have to re-take it" or "this is one of the hardest cert tests" the night before the test. I won't lie I didn't go into the test with the highest confidence, but my preparation paid off, and now I've got the certification to show for it. It's been rewarding to flex my azure chops well past what I need day-to-day with my work, and h
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The Vergecast: The future of code is exciting and terrifying
There's nothing quite as nice as folks talking about something you've had rattling in your head for quite a while.
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Some new updates to my feed have just rolled out. Quick thoughts are now easier, writing is now in Ghost instead of Markdown, and linking out to things I find is simple & clean.
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2026: A Year of Stability
Going into 2026 and reflecting on all of 2025, I think I've settled on a yearly theme of Stability. Between buying a home in 2025, and my position at work changing to be more of a team lead, and a million other small things, last year had a whole lot of change. I'm sure this coming year will bring more, too, but what I'm choosing to focus myself on is making sure everything is stable, and providing a good foundation to build upon. Some of the outcomes that I want to see from this year is just a
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What Every Dev Should Know About Integrating with AI
Note: This post was originally written for and published on Seven Hills Technology's blog, and as such, does not include my personal feelings about generative AI. AI is being integrated everywhere, and if you're reading this, you may be excited about it, fatigued by it, planning how to add it to your app at the behest of an excited project manger, or trying to figure out how it can actually be valuable enough to ask your developers to start working on it. Wherever you're at with AI, you just kn
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www001
Hey folks, I want to try something out this year, I want to write a monthly newsletter. "Newsletter," I guess. You may notice this isn't in your mailbox, if you're reading this, its probably posted on my website, and depending on when you're reading it, there may not even be a place to input your email. It's a bit rushed, and I don't know how I'd want to host a newsletter just yet (more on that later), so I chose to do probably the harder part of just writing it. I'll post it, and it'll exist.
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Lessons Learned from Dotnet Upgrades
Lessons Learned from Dotnet Upgrades Let's get one thing out of the way first, this is not a guide to upgrading your .NET Framework project to .NET 6(+). I am here to share some pitfalls from my experience of doing two .NET upgrades in 2023 to help anyone else that may be trying to go through a similar process in the new year (and beyond). I think that learning and sharing knowledge gained along the way, even if I'm not a comprehensive expert on the topic is valuable. First, we should lay the g
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Terminal Basics
Terminal Basics Originally written to accompany a Lunch & Learn talk given for Seven Hills Technology. What is the Terminal The terminal is essentially your computer, without a graphical interface on top of it. You can run commands, start programs, view/copy/edit files, and more – all from one place! Terminals are also often called a CLI (Command Line Interface), which contrasts with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). You have a lot of options for what terminal you use, listed are a few you
I've always loved nerding out about tooling, and lately with AI, there hasn't been a ton that I've felt excited about, but remote dev boxes are definitely hitting that niche for me. It's the perfect mix of useful, fiddlier than it needs to be, and novel that I'm enjoying it, and having to hold myself back from futzing with my tooling instead of working. I use a similar set up to what Scott discusses here, one day I'll write it out more thoroughly, too.