Dear Josie,
On the very off-chance I don’t get a chance to barrage you about this a thousand times, here’s a lesson on weasel words. Take a look at
Always be suspicious when politicians or advertisers (if there’s still a difference) don …
read moreInternet of Things project for homeowners with heating oil
Internet of Things project providing homeowners with better efficiency for oil heating
For the second time in a few years I’ve found myself doing a number of Django upgrades. It’s a good thing: I’m happy the framework I chose to base most of my work on when I went solo has stayed relevant. But this time I …
read moreBuilding a MOOC for the Best and Brightest
I spent two-and-a-half years working as both a front- and back-end developer on various parts of the upcoming MOOC offering from Harvard Business School. On the front-end I’m building various teaching resources in …
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CREEPY GUY, a man in his late 50s in hiking shorts and an ankle brace is paying for a popsicle at a beer store at 10:30 in the morning with the change from what is either a …
read moreI’ve been thinking about exception handling a lot recently. A., because I’m stultifying and B., because it’s been a source of contention in the codebase I’m responsible for. I wrote some formal documentation last week to try to normalize our approach, but I’m …
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Built and currently maintain (and extend) the Django codebase that powers Ground Energy. The system receives status reports from geothermal installs once per minute, logs them to the database and provides both …
read moreIn one of those “Why did I even look at the terminal” moments, I noticed Solr stopped working properly in a local Django setup. Initially I ignored a slew of 404 errors when Haystack tried to reindex because … well because who the hell cared? I …
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