All Categories · Ponderings of an Andy

Tue 28 November 2017How I found an awesome remote only job
Mon 31 July 2017A reflection on my decade at Caterpillar
Sat 10 October 2015How not to recruit me

Programming Projects3

Sun 19 February 2017Can a machine be taught to flag spam automatically
Thu 12 March 2015Zephyr - The bot that watches for low quality vote requests
Fri 02 January 2015Can a machine be taught to flag comments automatically

Mon 26 October 2020Review of GitLab's "How to Manage a Remote Team" Coursera course
Fri 29 May 2020Rise Gardens Review
Sun 24 May 2020Rise Gardens App/Subscription Improvement suggestions
Tue 05 May 2020Rise Gardens physical improvements suggestions
Fri 01 May 2020Planting the first crop in the Rise Garden
Sun 26 April 2020Assembling the Rise Garden
Fri 24 April 2020Unboxing garden nurseries
Wed 22 April 2020Unboxing and reviewing the new indoor Rise Gardens hydroponic garden
Mon 23 December 2019Review of Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate 2019 course
Tue 09 July 2019Review of Travis CI Tutorial Udemy course
Tue 14 May 2019Review of Software Testing Masterclass (2019) - From Notice to Expert Udemy course
Wed 23 January 2019Review of Sanic - An Asynchronous Web Framework for Pythonistas Udemy course
Wed 31 October 2018Review of Udemy's Docker Swarm: Beginner + Advanced
Mon 29 October 2018Review of Udemy's Docker and Containers: The Essentials
Mon 01 October 2018Review of Udemy's renamed The 2018 Git Complete: 45 minute crash course using Angular.
Fri 21 September 2018Review of Udemy's Learn DaVinci Resolve 15 from scratch
Tue 20 February 2018Review of Udemy's Django Course from Basics to Advance
Fri 20 October 2017Review of Udemy's AWS Serverless APIs & Apps - A Complete Introduction course
Wed 28 June 2017Review of Udemy's Python and Django Full Stack Web Developer Bootcamp course
Wed 03 May 2017Review of Udemy's Deep Learning Prerequisites - Linear and Logistic Regression courses
Thu 20 April 2017Review of Udemy's 'Deep Learning Prerequisites: The Numpy Stack in Python' course
Thu 20 April 2017Review of Udemy's 'Become a Product Manager | Learn the Skills & Get the job' course
Wed 28 December 2016Review of Udemy's 'From 0 to 1: Machine Learning, NLP and Python - Cut to the Chase' course
Fri 09 December 2016Review of Udemy's 'Data Analysis with Pandas' course

Side Activities15

Fri 29 March 2019Stack Overflow still has issues and it's getting worse
Mon 12 February 2018...and then there was a backup server
Sat 27 January 2018Well, there goes my data...
Fri 18 August 2017Collecting Diamonds on Stack Exchange
Mon 22 May 2017Stack Overflow's Problem - Feedback from an experienced user
Sun 06 November 2016Third time's the charm?
Wed 18 November 2015I'm running for moderator on Stack Overflow again
Mon 10 August 2015Link Analysis - Technical Explanation
Fri 07 August 2015A proposal to fix broken links on Stack Overflow
Thu 06 August 2015Analysis of links posted to Stack Overflow
Thu 09 July 2015How I set up this site with GitHub Pages and CloudFlare
Sun 03 May 2015Why I moved from Wordpress to Pelican
Mon 06 April 2015I'm running to be a moderator of Stack Overflow
Wed 02 July 2014Moderation postion on Moderators
Tue 13 August 2013I had a secret addiction to the TF2 idling economy but I'm better now (honest)

Technical Solutions19

Tue 22 October 2019Setting up GitLab runners
Tue 30 July 2019Installing InvoiceNinja on Ubuntu 18.04
Fri 26 July 2019Updating PHP from 7.1 to 7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04
Wed 13 March 2019Upgrading the home network to use Ubiquiti products
Thu 31 January 2019Fixing XPS 13 (Ubuntu) and Thunder Bolt 16 issue after BIOS update
Thu 15 November 2018Autobuild and Deploy this Pelican Blog
Wed 26 September 2018Backing up Ubuntu laptop to Ubuntu Server with passwordless rsync
Fri 13 July 2018Deploying a Flask Slack app on Google Cloud Platform
Wed 25 April 2018Set up Dynamic CloudFlare IP with Let's Encrypt
Fri 13 April 2018Setting up GitLab on the new server
Mon 02 April 2018Travis CI doesn't keep your environment variable secure
Tue 27 March 2018Installing NextCloud
Thu 15 February 2018Setting up a ZFS pool on Ubuntu 16.04
Wed 26 April 2017Choosing an ORM library for a new project
Tue 15 March 2016My experiences releasing a package to PyPI
Fri 11 December 2015How I built a Flask application that integrates with Travis CI and OpenShift
Tue 07 February 2012Connect Python to OSI Soft PI
Wed 17 November 2010Multiple IP addresses on the same physical network card
Fri 14 May 2010Fixing MYISAM Crashed Tables

Thu 08 January 2015Thanks for all the fish
Tue 22 April 2014How to appeal a ban effectively
Mon 14 April 2014How NOT to appeal a ban
Thu 05 December 2013Mann Vs Vipers Beaten!
Mon 25 February 2013Give some refined, Win some prizes
Sat 30 June 2012Homing projectiles are awesome!
Sun 22 April 2012Monitoring Language on the game servers
Fri 04 February 2011A new, more fair, RTD
Tue 28 December 2010A special kind of troll
Fri 30 October 2009Automated template for membership applications