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Exploring Power Platform: How to Approach Data with Power BI
Read →As someone who half-jokingly, yet so far accurately, describes themselves as a "lifelong scholar," one of the things I'm a firm believer in is the power and importance of learning in everyone's life. For me personally, I know if I'm not actively trying to learn something new or challenge myself in new ways, I start to feel like I'm growing stagnant. This is definitely true in the context of my career, especially working in a field like technology, where the environment is constantly shifting as…
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Creating a Text Adventure Game Engine Using Coding Agents and Markdown
Read →Some of my earliest memories of computers are of playing text adventure games on MS-DOS. For those unfamiliar with the genre, these early games were comprised of a text-only interface, where the gameworld is described to you through prose. The player can then interact with the environment, picking up items along the way, and interacting with the world. Reverse engineering these types of games comprises some of my earliest computer memories, and those experiences launched a lifelong curiousity…
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On Social Media
Read →As an elder millennial, my first real experience with social media platforms was Myspace in 2003. This was back in the day of AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM as we called it, where we would set elaborate Away Messages for when we were AFK, usually involving cringe-worthy song lyrics and Ascii art. We were all friends with Tom from Myspace. Facebook and Twitter were still distant dots on the horizon at this point. Those my age were more concerned with learning how to customize our Myspace profiles…
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Back to Sourdough
Read →Some time ago, long before it became hip during COVID, I had my own sourdough baking era. It was filled with my typical obsessive nature, hemming and hawing over the best wheat varieties to mill, eventually sourcing premium wheat direct from farmers, experimenting with sifting my own flour (including purchasing some expensive brass test sieves for sifting), keeping starters at different hydrations, different temperatures, and with different types of flour, etc. Well, that was years ago, and I'd…
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Becoming a Morning Person
Read →At some point I became a morning person. I guess there was a period of my early childhood where I was an early riser. I remember setting my Mickey Mouse alarm to wake up at 7:00 AM as a young child and then spending mornings making myself eggs sunny-side up, listening to the radio (1280 AM Radio AAHS), drinking Folgers instant coffee with the sunrise. But anyone who knew me from my teenage years on knew that I was a night owl. I usually stayed up until 2:00–4:00 AM or later and crashed until…