Like many people, I’ve made the decision to migrate my sparce social media presence from Twitter to Mastodon. I am a big advocate of open source. I think the fediverse, as the open-source Mastodon ecosystem has been referred to, is a flexible and very useful system for a well-curated social media presence. It is a little more involved to get started, so here are some tips. The first thing you need to do is decide on a server.

Today was a big day for me. A day I’ve been thinking about and planning for a long time. My first beer brewing day! And I want to tell anyone that might be interested in learning the ancient art of brewing that it was not hard at all. There is a time commitment of several hours but the project I have been intimidated by for years was actually not difficult.

I have a productivity ritual and set of habits I follow most mornings to get my ready to be productive and I wanted to share them. I live in the Eastern Time Zone while most of my coworkers work from the Central Time Zone. Because we work remotely, I have a set of rituals that I follow that I believe replace my commute and office arrival with more productive activities. In the before days (before COVID), I would drive about 20 minutes, sometimes grabbing a breakfast sandwich on the way.

I’ve been primarily using different flavors of Linux personally and professionally since around 2014. For most of those years, I’ve been using Ubuntu. Recently, I got the chance to upgrade my company laptop after 5 years on a Macbook Pro. I opted for a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition shipped with Ubuntu. For the first few weeks, I kept Ubuntu but noticed a lot of issues with my docking and random video freezes that requiered a hard reboot.

If you are interested in programming, data analytics, 3d printing, beer, and other endeavors, you have just arrived at the right place. I will be using my blog to discuss my interests and experience. I am the Data and Analytics Manager at a startup specializing in big data analytics and machine learning approaches to solving fraud problems. Before I worked in big data and analytics, I worked in the emergency services.