In my ideal world, daylight saving time would be standard year round. Unfortunately that is not the world that we live in, so I do have to deal with the time change each spring and fall. I’m curious as to why the daylight saving time change occurs on Sunday mornings Read more
“Is very good and I’m glad it exists” – LS But it can also be overwhelming. Almost any topic that I might want to learn about I can find information on in less than a second. For example, a quick Google search for “how does grep work” gives “about 21,700,000 Read more
If you use CloudFront to serve static assets, you can setup CloudFront to send logs to an S3 bucket. Once the logs are in an S3 bucket, you can use Athena to query the logs. This gives you greater visibility into what requests are being made to your CloudFront distributions. Read more
It is nice going back to code that you have not visited in a while and still being able to pick up the structure of the code and start working on it again quickly. There are a lot of good courses available for free, but one of my favorites is Read more
Here are some of the resources I used near the beginning of the pandemic to track case numbers.
Over an approximately 3 month period I completed the Flatiron School’s Full Stack Web Development with React online course. During the course I kept a blog about the various projects that I worked on. The blog contains some technical details about the projects, as well as the thought process behind Read more
Over the past 3 months I have worked my way through the Flatiron School Online Full Stack Web Development Program. As part of the program, I completed 5 portfolio projects and live coded a new feature for each, with a Flatiron Instructor assessing my progress. I wanted to share one Read more
I currently live in Cinco Ranch, Texas, about 30 miles west of Houston. The last few days have been terrible, but it has been amazing to see how many volunteers have come out to help others. Over the last few days I have been closely monitoring the levels in the Read more
There has long been a debate as to whether the hot hand theory in sports is supported by scientific evidence, or is just based on anecdotal experience. FiveThirtyEight contributes to the debate here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baseballs-hot-hand-is-real/. FiveThirtyEight looked particularly at baseball pitchers, and determined that there was some statistical evidence for the hot Read more