Taylor Brazelton's Blog

Experienced engineers love to say: **“Keep your PRs small.”** But what does *small* actually mean?

Bootstrapping a SaaS MVP isn’t just a coding sprint—it’s a mental grind.

With the low-key launch of the "Reconstruct Attachments" action inside of the SAP ERP Connector for Power Automate, you can

Running LLMs locally is great for privacy and olline access.

With everyone discussing the world’s best AI models, it’s important to humanize the language we use to describe them.

I'm back to self hosting a few services across Digital Ocean & Hetzner.

It’s funny how small things can make such a big difference.

Over the past 3 years, I've used Windows for various things.

### My Journey in a Nutshell: - Worked through four internships. - Participated in 4+ hackathons. - Graduated from Purdue with

My team and I spend our 9 to 5 working on the [SAP ERP Connector](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/saperp/) for

Today, I encountered an error while building a console app, which halted the process: ``` 1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual

In this post, we'll explore the practical use of Certificates and Keys in secure communication, an essential skill for anyone

Recently, I've encountered situations where I need to work with multiple git repositories from different sources.

Recently, I've been working with a no-code team to help them build and distribute Power Plaform solutions.

At work, I've been procrastinating on figuring out how to connect my Macbook to the Dell monitors my workplace provides.

Recently, I built a power automate flow where I needed a subset of an array.

One of the twelve pillars of a well behaved application is "Logs".

**Update (03/01/2023)** - One of my coworkers said that the app automatically added the newly copied flows into the

Recently, I needed to compare two DLLs with the same name to see if they were the same.

While debugging an issue a customer reported issue, I became well acquainted with the Global Assembly Cache otherwise known as

Emoji's and GIFs are essential for people trying to express their emotions & feelings over chat.

Disclosure, I am on the team that helped build the following.

## UPDATE: 2022/09/28 Recently the app began to autostart again.

## Quick Rant About Semantic Versioning There is inherent information loss when a developer implements Semantic

During my time using a mac, I have run into an annoying issue where the Desktop switcher seem to want me to organize things by

Sometimes when working with databases you need a backup.

A few months ago my team switched from Slack to Microsoft Teams.

October 20th, 2021 was the official date the company I worked full time at was acquired by Microsoft. ## A Bit About The

Recently, I've noticed an uptick in the usage of the words **Revenue** and **Profit** in my vicinity.

## Problem: My laptop struggles at keeping an SSH connection alive with its default settings.

### Problem: A scary thing happened recently.

SCP is a command that allows you to copy files and directories securely between two hosts. ## Upload a file from local to

Every now and then one of my legacy sites goes down due to having a full disk.

Make sure that anything connected to your database is using an DNS entry to connect.

This weekend, I restricted the use of TLS to 1.2 and higher.

I have been highly annoyed over the last few weeks with my docker containers terminal prompts.

Everyone should have a way to log incidents and track customer experience flaws.

Today I learned about uPnP.

Here are just a few bullet points I've gathered over my career about logging. #### Log to STDOUT/STDERR Stop following all

Recently I have noticed that the `Proceed to www...com (unsafe)` link in Chrome has stopped appearing on webpages with invalid

For a few years now, I've wanted a tool that collects feedback from my users.

Recently I needed to dockerize an application for a virtual onprem.

Recently I've noticed a green dot next to my webcam staying on beyond my Google Hangout/Zoom meetings.

Recently, I decided to secure my local machine by downloading and using AWS Vault.

Below is a list of minimum requirements I believe are vital to the success of a SAAS platform(Note that this isn't the word

Note: This article assumes PostgreSQL.

**Update (03/07/2023)** - Fixed spelling and grammar mistakes.

Today, while trying to integrate the python library [Alembic](https://pypi.org/project/alembic/) into a micro-service, I ran

Today, I needed to invalidate a specific Distribution's cache on AWS CloudFront.

This weekend while on dev support, an issue came to our attention that customers were still able to see `soft deleted` data in