Udemy Streak! Some changes to my approach…

I posted about this before but I am a huge advocate of online learning and have been for a while.  As I mentioned before Udemy offered a challenge in January 2024 to see if users could establish a 12 week streak.  When I wrote that post I was sitting at 68 weeks…  And now (as […]

Docker!

If you’ve seen my other posts – you’ve seen I’ve been doing a bit with n8n lately.  One of the quicker ways to get n8n going locally is to pull a docker image and go…  I did this on an AWS free tier account to make sure I was doing some hands-on ‘super light’ config

Vector Databases!

I’m a few weeks into playing with n8n on the side. I’ve worked with EAI tools and integrations way back, and more recently with platforms like Zapier, Workato, and Zoho Flow. It’s interesting to see how each one tackles the low-code/no-code automation space. n8n has my attention lately – thanks to its deeper developer features:

More n8n! Now with a side of vector databases!

In a previous post (here) I spoke about starting to mess around with n8n. Well, a few weeks in things are gaining traction for me here – there are so many small issues I think we can attack at work, and that’s what we’re doing. Starting small to prove out the platform, how we want

Leveling Up: My Focused Plan to Modern Cloud & ML Engineering

I’ve spent most of my career in software development leadership — as a manager, director, and senior leader who loves staying close to the code. Whether volunteering for on-call rotations or diving into complex systems like our ETL pipeline built with Spotify’s Luigi framework (Python), I’ve always enjoyed hands-on tech work. My main responsibility was

n8n – OK, now I have a million ideas…

Over the past couple of years I’ve done a lot of work with orchestration layers – maybe that’s a bad term, but the general idea: Some event happens -> Collect needed data -> Move data to a new system -> Do something A thousand years (it feels like it) this fell under the umbrella of

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