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  • Probabilistic Bucketing with Cassandra

    A Third Choice I’m working on a project right now that uses Cassandra as one of it’s databases, and I need to determine how I’m going to bucket my data. Unfortunately, the most common bucketing solutions have significant limitations in my use case. I’d like to propose a new way…

  • A Simple Server Sleeper Script

    …or maybe not so simple… The Requirement With the recent Windows 10 EOL, I decided to migrate my home server back to Ubuntu. The server is mainly used as a NAS file share, but I also occasionally use it for hosting web development projects. It’s only used periodically, and I…

  • When Engineers Run the Asylum

    Get ready for some crazy designs! This post is not a rant about Microsoft. It could be a rant about Microsoft, but it is not. I mean sure, I could talk about… …but that’s not the point of this post. This is a post about development philosophy. One of my…

  • AI, What is it Good For?

    Absolutely something! So yeah, AI is pretty over-hyped right now. There are people talking about how it’s going to solve all of the world’s problems or create some post-labor utopia, which just seems like fantasy-land absurdity… but what is AI actually going to be good at? I’m a big fan…

  • Hello World!

    Hello World! I’ve decided to start a blog! I’ve got a couple post ideas queued up, and I plan on logging at least some of my journey as I attempt to start a social media site, but otherwise I’m not really sure what this will develop into. I think I…