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Intro to Event Storming
— Notes from learning Event Storming for domain-driven design. Thoughts on phases, color-coded chaos, and how to transition from fast pitches to full products. (6 min read)
LLMs: A Primer Presentation for Our Newest, Scariest Tool
— An engineer-focused primer on the mechanisms that drive Large Language Models. Basics on how we got here, how they work, and how to use them without feeling an apocalyptic dread.
Terraform LocalStack Testing
— $70/mo/seat? Just using live AWS may be cheaper. An evaluation of LocalStack as a testbed for Account Factory Terraform. (5 min read)
The Simple Economics of Open Source
— Why do we do what we do? "Egoboo." Exploring economic models of OSS contributions beyond altruism and ego.
College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage
— A dive into the hottest algorithm of the 1960s: Gale-Shapley matchmaking. Who knew that the mysteries of the heart could be solved with a matrix?
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Utah Office Consult
— People problems are the hardest engineering problems. A consult on thinking out-of-the-box to explain morale problems in small companies.