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I’m putting this here because there was absolutely no documentation that I could find on this issue anywhere on the internet.

As I’ve built out my home network, I’ve ended up with a hodgepodge of different machines.

Over the last couple of weeks, Texas has faced a massive heatwave and their misregulated electric grid has once again began to strain.

A lot has been said about the fact that Amazon has exclusive rights (with the exception of local markets) to Thursday Night Football this year.

With the introduction of WSL2, it’s now pretty easy to do great work inside of Windows, specifically training machine learning models.

Eight years ago I moved to rural Northeastern Connecticut.

In the past, when I had more time to write, I made a nearly yearly event of creating a list of technology predictions for the next year.

About a week and a half ago I did something that a six months ago would’ve seemed nearly unthinkable.

There’s a ton of reasons why nearly everyone should consider using a VPN.

Hey world, long time no blog.

This marks my fourth attempt at being a technology pundit after previous attempts in 2010, 2011, and 2012.

The days are once again getting depressingly short here on the East Coast.

JazzHub is a new project from IBM that provides the power of Rational Team Concert (RTC) in a cloud environment.

Last night I, along with a lot of other amazing folks, gave a lightning talk at the Data Science DC meetup.

For the last year and a half I’ve been working with Anita Sarma, a professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and her graduate student, Corey Jergensen, to try and understand some of the social dynamics around GitHub.