Shortly after reaching my connecting airport from St. Augustine, I stared at Gate E7. Knowing this would be the longest flight of my life. Atlanta to Amsterdam: 8 hours in the air, “what’s Dutch for ‘I hate flying,” I wondered. Then, I crossed a whole ocean (uneventfully sleeping for most of it) and landed at […]
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Happy New Year to all my fellow blog readers! Welcome to my 2023 Year in Review! You may have noticed a few things changed around on the site. It was time to consolidate, and instead of managing several different technologies and having each site have its personality with no cohesiveness, I now have the entire
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I can honestly say that my career has been a whirlwind. Anyone to whom I have told my story and how I changed not only industries but completely changed career paths. I went from a Network Architect to a Solutions Architect to a Big-Four Technology consulting manager. I have left the technology realm and am
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In the last post, Python Project – Morse Code Encoder, we looked at creating a Morse Code encoder. The application works fine, but how can we streamline it? Let’s take a look at specific parts of the code base and see what we could do. The for-loop As a refresher, our code base from the
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I will start a new series on how to approach writing a Python application when you are given a set of parameters. With these parameters, we will step through how to write out the code, execute the code, troubleshoot the code, and see how we can refactor the code to make it cleaner and more
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As 2022 ends, I am reflecting on what the year brought me and what I planned on doing this past year. As with every year, you will have some days you want to remember, some days you want to forget, and some days you wish you could pass over. The most essential thing in this
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One of the questions I always get is how is it to road trip in a Tesla? I am not going to lie, but this was one area I was the most concerned with coming from an ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicle. Most notably, my anxiety came around the range of the car, and I
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Should you invest in paint protection film (PPF) on your Tesla? PPF is a hot topic in all of my Tesla Facebook groups. As you can imagine, it can be difficult for someone to make an informed decision. I will take a neutral look at this and answer the question: should you invest in paint
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You’re ready to buy a Tesla, right? I was back on April 1st, 2021, and this is my story! I will take you on a journey through my Tesla order experience. I have ordered and received my 2021 Tesla Model Y, nicknamed “StorMY,” on April 1st, 2021. With delivery taking place on May 29th, 2021.
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Continuing our previous blog post, What is Docker, we will now see what it takes to install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 and test to ensure we can start a container. Prepare the host Dependency Installation Install the required dependencies to get docker running. These packages are: Docker Installation Add Docker GPG key to the keyring
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