So far I haven’t gotten very into home automation. Haven’t had that much of a need and didn’t want to invest much into it without a clear problem to solve. The one exception is for the past couple of Christmases I automated all our lights. We had gotten an Amazon Echo / Alexa for free,Continue reading “Weekend Automation”
Category Archives: Tech
What I think good hiring looks like
Now that I’m on the other side of my job search, and very happy with where things landed, I wanted to share some of what I experienced along the way.I want to preface this by saying I know hiring teams are under a lot of pressure. The job market has shifted significantly and that affectsContinue reading “What I think good hiring looks like”
The Job Search
I won’t bury the lede I’m joining n8n, officially starting on March 9th, as a Senior Support Engineer! I’ll write more about n8n in the future, but right now I am really excited and think this is an excellent match. Struggle It’s been eleven months since I was laid off, and although I did takeContinue reading “The Job Search”
Online Resume
Since I’ve started the search for the next chapter in my career I’ve been looking for two related but different types of roles. Either a Technical Support Engineer or Software Engineer. For the Technical Support Engineer I’m looking for a role where I’m helping developers use a product. Something that gets fairly technical. Looking atContinue reading “Online Resume”
Unexpected Goodbye, Unshakable Gratitude
The past few days have been difficult. After over 10 years working at Automattic my time has come to an end. As with any loss there has been a mix of feelings, but most consistently how I’ve been describing it to those close to me asking is heartbreaking. Although I always knew I didn’t haveContinue reading “Unexpected Goodbye, Unshakable Gratitude”
Query Loop Future Filter Plugin
This is the first year in a long time that I haven’t been helping coach my son Noah’s basketball teams. It’s felt a little odd, but I’m pretty out of my depth at the high school level and the team has great coaches. So this year I’ve focused more on the tech and media sideContinue reading “Query Loop Future Filter Plugin”
How to deal with passwords
There are far too many places that we all have accounts for now, each one needing a password. Many people give up trying to remember passwords and pick one and use it, or some simple variation of it, for all the places they need one. This is a terrible and unsafe practice but very understandable.Continue reading “How to deal with passwords”
Introducing Spartan Stats
Spartan Stats is my first real open source project that I’m releasing. It is a web app which allows you to track a basketball teams stats in real time and has a live view for authorized visitors to see game stats and scores. This was an idea that came about near the beginning of Covid.Continue reading “Introducing Spartan Stats”
The move to Developer
This past year has been tough, exciting, and brought some big changes. One of the big changes was our adoption of Ezra. The other is the completion of the Developer Apprenticeship program I wrote about previously. As of the first of this month my role switch from Happiness Engineer to Developer became official! That’s theContinue reading “The move to Developer”
Learning React
Since my last update about my #photo-album-project I’ve been busy gathering up learning resources and have started in on some learning. A lot of the resources I’ve found are online. I’ve been scanning and bookmarking articles on MongoDB, Node.js, creating APIs and other things. A site I hadn’t come across before this is FreeCodeCamp. TheyContinue reading “Learning React”
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