My Maker Content
I am working to create some maker-oriented content, and have decided to host it on Medium. Here’s what I have so far:
Jeff Barr’s Blog
Jeff Barr's Blog
Latest posts
Operation #BringDadHome - The Whole Story
Now that I have sorted out multiple issues with my personal storage and blogging environment, I am ready to start blogging here again! To get started, I want to tell the story of Operation #BringDadHome.
Back for Good This Time
After a couple of false starts, this blog is back and I will be producing content on a regular and frequent basis. I finally straightened out some embarassing technical isues and some source code control problems, and also took the time to clean up some legacy stuff. I’ll have a lot more to say about all of that very soon.
Lego Investment Resources
Over the last couple of years I have slowly become an Adult Fan of LEGO®, otherwise known as an AFOL! After building dozens of LEGO sets with my children when they were young, I rediscovered my fondness for carefully following directions in order to end up with the desired result. This is in marked contrast to my day job, where I am routinely called upon to create thousands of words of fresh…
My First 12 Years at Amazon.com
Twelve years ago today I drove to Seattle and started working at Amazon.com. Today seems like a good time to tell the story of how and why I joined the company and to retrace my career path to date.
Links for Sunday, February 23, 2014
Leaflet An Open-Source JavaScript Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps.
Links for Friday - LEGO
Long-time readers of this blog know that I like to collect and share links that are of interest to me. With the blog’s rebirth, I am resuming this practice. On some days I’ll just throw out random links. On other days I am going to try for a theme. Today’s theme is LEGO.
My Personal Productivity Tips
Over the years I have developed a set of productivity tips that seems to work well for me. I have shared them with my coworkers from time time with positive results, so I figured that they would make for a good post to get my blog back up and running. Once again, these work well for me. I am not religious about any of these; if you were to shadow me around for a week or two you would undoubtedly…
Links for Saturday, January 11, 2014
5' and 3' Ends of DNA What do we mean when we talk about the 3' and 5' ends of DNA or RNA?
Blogging Has Resumed
I had planned to resume my longstanding personal blogging regimen several months ago. The summer and the fall were very busy due to the AWS re:Invent conference and a large-scale kitchen renovation. both of these items are now in the past and I am once again ready to blog on a regular and frequent basis!