Reblogged from developer.bombbomb.com

I’ve had the enormous fortune to lead an engineering organization comprised of women and men who delight in challenging one another every day. This camaraderie leads to better products, more creativity and a happier workplace. At BombBomb we often get to work on really cool stuff that pushes our ability and knowledge, but at the same time these tasks are often that: assigned work. It’s gotta be done, but how can we really lean to the other side and let engineers run wild?

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I’ve got a goal for 2018 to attend four tech and leadership conferences. But before we make it to 2018 I was excited to happen across the 2017 NASDAQ CTO Summit a few days before it ran. I hustled a ticket and am going to represent BombBomb in the big city.

Last year I had a really good time attending the inaugural Inman Hacker Connect. Hacker Connect was (and still is) a great opportunity to meet some other tech leaders in the real estate space specifically.

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Last night I gave a talk at coloradoSprings.js about the serverless framework.

I wish I’d went to the trouble of recording the presentation, and will try that the next time I give one, but for now I can offer you the slide deck, and this quick write-up.

Hotdog Cloud?

The hottest space in tech in 2017 is inarguably hotdog detection and non-detection. Everybody’s trying to get a piece of the action. So I spent a couple nights building https://hotdog.cloud a mobile-friendly hotdog detection app. Give it a try! It’s especially good on your phone. Hotdog cloud is open sourced on github, so feel free to fork away.

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In a very beardy time, I spent a week with my man Cheech assembling some AWS infrastructure patterns into a fun global fault tolerance proof of concept project called Gaia.

Slides: Google Slides

Read The Gaia and the Hydra

Work work…

My wife, Briana is a very talented Geographic Information Systems Analyst. That means she makes maps and massages geographic data to get clients information they needs about where in the world their projects are being undertaken.

One project involved assessing the surface area of all the parking lots belonging to a major national retailer. This project was seeded to her with some latitude/longitude pairs that were sometimes as far as a couple miles away from where the actual storefront was. This left her having to manually reconcile the addresses of these stores against where they actually were so they could go about measuring the surface area of this project.

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TL;DR

Introduction: Stoic Secrets

The world stares solidly at us, seemingly assured of itself, its structure and its meaning. What do we come upon as we stare back out onto it? Do the ordinary constituents of worldly experience have in themselves characters to be discovered, classified and cataloged, or are things not so straight as they seem? What shapes do these catalogs of knowledge take on when people of largely different cultures or languages construct them? Would these shapes vary enough to alter their perceivers’ experience to a point that they would be experiencing worlds different from those with other classificatory guidebooks? In this paper I will argue that people’s culture, their language, and their unique individual minds form frameworks that come to act as their real worlds. These worlds are loosely coupled to the machinations of experienced reality, but also to cultural and interpersonal influences of more fleeting and dynamic character.

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