Health
Daylight Saving Time
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 Read more…
Productivity
The Internet
“Is very good and I’m glad it exists” – LS 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 Read more…
Software Development
A Few Useful Athena Queries for CloudFront Log Analysis
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 Read more…
Software Development
Write software that lasts
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 Read more…
Health
A Few Useful Resources for Tracking the Coronavirus Pandemic
Here are some of the resources I used near the beginning of the pandemic to track case numbers. Dashboard displaying Johns Hopkins CSSE Data United States specific tracking by county United States and Canada tracking with data sources cited
Productivity
My Full Stack Web Development Learning Journey
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 Read more…
Business
My Recent Projects
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 Read more…
Weather
Barker Reservoir Levels
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 Read more…
Sports
Is the Hot Hand Theory in Sports Real?
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 Read more…