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Goodbye West

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags

Cloud Backups: Costs, S3FS and Google STS

Published Sep 3, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Recently I was asked about backups to the cloud using tools like s3fs, fuse, rsync and more.

OS Apps: Favicon Downloader and Shiori

Published Aug 29, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today I wanted to dig into a few quick Open-source apps on my to-do list to check out; Favicon Downloader and Shiori.

OS BI: Knime

Published Aug 27, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

At my recent DevDays conference I worked through Sisense, a commercial BI tool. While it is quite powerful, it is also quite expensive.

OS Apps: Commafeed, TiddlyWiki

Published Aug 22, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll do a quick look at a couple of Open-Source tools that have been on my list to check out; Commafeed and TiddlyWiki. The first, Commafeed is a simple container-based RSS/Feed reader that...

OS Apps: PDFDing an Zulip

Published Aug 20, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we will check out a couple of interesting Open-Source projects. The first of which is PdfDing. PDFDing is a lightweight Python based app for viewing a library of self-hosted PDFs. I discov...

.NET MVC App: Adding New Relic APM, Synthetics, OpenTelemetry, GCP CloudTrace and more

Published Aug 15, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Having created a new .NET 8 MVC app in the post earlier this week, it is time for us to instrument it.

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