Recently I wrote about “My Lessons Learned on Learning”. One of the key parts of learning, but also getting things done for me, is to frequently visit 3rd places. What’s a 3rd place? I’ll elaborate. Continue reading →

Today I’ve cut the final, the video and audio are getting better and better as I determine how exactly these conversations are best recorded and streamed! Archis and I had a conversation a few weeks back and the premier is going live today at 2:00pm. My plan with these conversations is pretty straight forward, after... Continue reading →

Here is my updated schedule for the two weeks starting August 12th for my Twitch streams, the basic topics, meetups (a little beyond two weeks), and related events coming up. Series: Thrashing Code General Calamity This is going to be a mix of tech this week. Probably some database hacking, code hacking, samples, and setup... Continue reading →

This week we just had Ryan Zhang present at the Seattle Scalability Meetup. I did a little short presentation just showing some tools that I’ve been using as of late; DataGrip, and related schema migrations and Docker containers as I work through the schema migrations. It was a solid meetup and excellent conversation after meetup,... Continue reading →

Today Suz Hinton @noopkat and Amanda Moran @AmandaDataStax are presenting, “Alternative Protocols – how offline machines can still talk to each other” and “Classification and Clustering Algorithms paired with Wine and Chocolate” respectively. The aim is to stream these talks tonight too on my Thrashing Code Twitch Channel. If you can attend in person, we’re... Continue reading →