At some point over the last few years I discovered DuckDB as an alternative lightweight SQL database that is super fast and has support for a wide variety of file formats, but until now I'd only used CSV and Parquet, but recently a pcap extension was released, so
(Five years ago I started the tradition of learning and blogging over the 4th of July weekend, so I figured I'd keep the tradition alive) Problem & Prior Art Even with autocompletion, the AWS CLI can be extremely verbose, so I often find myself writing short wrapper scripts
In February as I wound up my last role as a SecOps Director, the Engineer-Manager pendulum was definitely on my mind, but I wasn't sure which way I'd swing. Would I choose the IC route like I did in July 2019 or pick up another team?
I start writing this at a York Road Starbucks after dropping our youngest child off at his first job at a grocery store, the same chain…
I remember when I finally got the “AI bug.”
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year, I took a trip up I-83 to the Best Buy in York PA and bought an Acer 516 GE “Gaming…
In my early 20’s, I wanted to be a writer. This is what you did if you were an English major and you were not bound to be a teacher.
In July 2023, when my wife encouraged me to take my European History vacation, the initial premise was to tour World War I and World War II…
Leaving Penn Station after spending the day in DC on Tuesday
The nearly six years I spent at Cisco in the early to mid 2000s were critical to my early career progression and I’m not sure what I’ve…
127 days ago seems like a lifetime!
I timed it just right!