What Changed?
In my experience a new project is something software engineers yearn for – it’s an opportunity to start fresh and to right the wrongs of the past. Though of course you will make new mistakes and covet...
View ArticleOops! All Turbines
The path of an electrical engineer is one of intrigue. Through my years at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, I studied topics such as calculus, power systems, digital logic, more...
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The Power Puzzle: Planning vs. Operations
Harmonizing Long-Range Planning and Real-Time Operations Imagine planning a road trip across the country. You map out the scenic routes, estimate fuel stops, and make hotel reservations months in...
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Securing Containers with Scratch Images and Multi-Stage Docker Builds
Building and running containers from scratch images provides numerous advantages that enhance the security of an application. When building a scratch image, the final image is tailored to include only...
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All Components Great and Small
A great design system benefits the end customer, engineers, and designers. Let’s assume that your design system has been approved because the design debt is obvious and your product is successful...
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Landing a UX Job: A Generalist’s Guide
The UX job market is a hot mess. Between contract roles and fake job postings, it’s all confusing. The influx of layoffs and remote roles means competition is fierce. I was laid off from a previous...
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Energy Tech 2025
Last week, we wrapped up our second Energy Tech conference, and it was nothing short of amazing. With over 450 attendees and more than 100 companies represented, Energy Tech 2025 proved to be an...
View ArticleA Guide to Digital Decluttering
Here’s something that blew my mind recently: if the internet were a country, it would be the 7th largest energy consumer (and the 4th largest polluter) in the world. That’s right – our digital lives...
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Creating a Journal With Eleventy
At the end of the year two years ago, I was trying to remember what I’d done that year and got frustrated that my memory wasn’t great. I could remember the big highlights, and there was photographic...
View ArticleReplacing Grover with Ferrum PDF for PDF Generation
Background After replacing PDFKit with Grover in a long-running Rails application as I described here: simplethread.com/replacing-pdfkit-with-grover-for-rails-pdf-generation and being satisfied with...
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