It wasn t exactly my plan. But it happened. A couple of months ago, I went on a solo trip to South Korea, Japan, and China. The trip was amazing; it was also tough in unexpected ways. When you spend three weeks alone with just your thoughts, you forget about the day to day, and start Continue reading So… I Wrote a Book.
I’m sure somebody who is an expert in human psychology could shed more light than I, but there’s something about fluffy objects that brings us joy and comfort. Cute dogs and cats, baby ducks, snugly blankets. We just can’t resist the fluff, its part of who we are. Except for the fluff on peaches… that’s Continue reading The Power of Fluff: Enhancing Team Collaboration
It had been a dream of mine for quite some time to work in software engineering. When I reconnect with distant family members and they ask what I’m doing now, they often aren’t surprised. Many tell me they always knew that’s where I would end up. And I agree with them—my choice of career has Continue reading Exciting News: My Insider’s Guide to Landing a Tech Job Is Now Live!
Anybody who’s worked in software engineering – be that as an engineer, program manager, designer, or any one of the numerous other roles essential to the delivery of quality software – will be well aware of the term “technical debt”. At its most simple level, Technical debt is a technical task that was omitted earlier Continue reading Redefining Technical Debt: A Guide to Prioritizing Tasks with…
I ve been building up my smart home setup for the last couple of years, and it generates a lot of data from the cat’s weight, to the humidity in each room, and like any Smart Project full of sensors, the question becomes what do we do with all that data? Graphs and dashboards? Push Continue reading Building a Connected Cuckoo Clock
Hello again! It’s almost the end of the year, and I think it s a good moment once again to run through the various smart home things I shared and how they’ve panned out after the post were published. Bathroom Fan Last year, I shared how had used a Shelly Relay, Home assistant and some humidity Continue reading State of the (IoT) Union 2022: Smart Home Year in Review
A few years ago, I was working on a team who had been working with TFS project for some time. They had just started a new project and decided to move to Git in the process. Git was new to all of the engineers on the team, myself included, but we continued anyway. At first, Continue reading Git For Humans: A Easy To Understand Video for Working With Git
Naturally, we want our pets to be as healthy and happy as possible, and just as with humans, one valuable metric to know is their weight. Knowing the weight of our four-legged friends, not only helps us to verify that they have a healthy amount of body fat, but can also can be used to Continue reading Internet of Poop: How (and Why) I Built a Smart Litter Tray
A career plan: we should all have one, right? But it can be hard to know where to start, or what you should do with it once you’ve made it. This can be especially challenging when you’re just starting off in your career – you manager asks what you want from your job, and don t Continue reading How To Make a Long Term Career Plan That Actually Helps
Following on from last year s IoT roundup, I thought I d take another moment to reflect back on the current state of my smart home; how some of the previous projects have aged since first writeup, what s new and what I m looking to tackle next. And oh my gosh, what a year 2021 has been! New Continue reading State of the (IoT) Union 2021