Nov 22, 2020Best of SXSW 2020I listened to all 1,025 songs from the SXSW festival (posted before the festival didn’t happen), and here are the twenty or so that stood out most to me. As one of the songs in the big, messy pile explained, you can be anybody in the world, all it takes…3 min read3 min read
Jul 1, 2020How I moved to The CloudWhen I go, all that will be left will be my home directory. Might as well keep it safe. I asked around, among friends, on Mastodon, on Twitter, and a good number of people wanted to hear about my Cloud Data Migration Architecture Solution Strategy. …Navel Gazing17 min readNavel Gazing17 min read
Apr 5, 2020Best of SXSW 2019Yes, it took me over a year to sift through the >1000 tracks from SXSW, but here are my top 25 recommendations. I’ve added a few comments so you know what to expect and so I can feel like some kinda music critic. …SXSW5 min readSXSW5 min read
Aug 16, 2017Willful ignorance of context, the Nazis, and the ACLUYou’ve already read a lot about Charlottesville in the press, but you may not have followed the back story very closely, or may not have read the briefs in the core legal proceedings. …Charlottesville8 min readCharlottesville8 min read
Nov 24, 2015On bringing stories to data, or, the trouble with the CubistsI did badly in every statistics class. Econometrics 301 was my only D grade as an undergrad, and grad school was only marginally better. This is an essay about how I went from not getting it at all to writing an open-source, production-quality library of statistics functions almost from the…Data Science13 min readData Science13 min read
May 6, 2015HTTPS: the end of an eraMozilla, the foundation that maintains Firefox, has announced that it will effectively deprecate the insecure HTTP protocol, eventually forcing all sites to use HTTPS if they hope to use modern features. This essay explains why this was such depressing news to me, why this shift marks the death of a…11 min read11 min read