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All the posts “unfiltered” (that’s a terrible WordPress loop joke).

  • Cloud Cost Breakdown

    Originally Published here. Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know Back of the napkin math to estimate what your deployments will cost as you’re building them. In 2002, Peter Norvig published a list of timings for common computer operations like reading from disk. Later, these were memorialized as latency numbers every programmer should know. In 2023, with cloud resources…

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  • Old collection of web-based applications.

    This was originally just a link I posted in 2007, but I got curious and dug the original list out of the wayback machine during this site refresh. I have no idea how many of these are still in existence, but cool list. Original Link: http://www.tzunami.com/No-More-Harddrive.php Enterprise CM Cloud

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  • PaaS MVP (Platform as a Service Minimally Viable Product)

    This short contract job in 2022 was a kind of proof-of-concept. I’m under NDA about it, so no identifying information here – but there’s something to be said about WordPress’s path forward with this project. The project is a service provided via a hosted WP instance on client subdomains. It’s a pretty common niche market…

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  • Fem Shred

    Fem Shred is a mobile-first ecommerce shop specializing in Women’s activewear with a social mission. They contracted me to fix some responsive design issues, set up WooCommerce and the requisite fulfillment on the back end, and do preflight testing before launch. This job wasn’t a success, but I’m adding it to my portfolio anyway because…

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  • Small Contract Job

    A steady stream of this kind of quick work would be great: I helped this financial services company sort some script loading issues. The graphs in the image above were not loading. The site architecture was set up such that posts load within posts and the Beaver Builder plugin (which has its own way of…

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  • Re: Trading

    During the pandemic, I, too did a little trading. Only in the most conservative beginner way (no leverage, no futures). I’ve also since mostly moved away from it, but I spent some time learning a few things rooting around in the morass of grifters, thieves, cons, and vaporcoins. I didn’t go broke, so here are…

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  • AI Images

    This is a gallery of images made by Dall-E 2 from prompts my daughter and I made. I picked the favorites.

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  • SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS

    from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service#Types PaaS is derived from software as a service (SaaS), and is situated in cloud computing between SaaS and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). SaaS is software hosted in the cloud so that it does not take up hard drive space on the computers of users. IaaS provides virtual hardware from a provider with adjustable scalability. With IaaS,…

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