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I have addressed the topic of triggered notifications a couple of times on this blog previously. I've taken the opportunity to apply the technique to a current use case - the ability to get notifications whenever the confirmed count of COVID-19 cases changes in my county or surrounding ones. I am basing this workflow on … Continue reading Watching COVID-19 Data for Your County with PostgreSQL and Node
I don't write code as much as I used to, but I have to return to it every so often to keep my sanity. With the current world situation, there are a lot of dashboards going up, many of which are based on the Esri Operations Dashboard or ArcGIS Hub. I got thinking about a … Continue reading Fulcrum Query API and Koop
Even though I work from home full time, I have a little extra time available since most things have been closed by a gubernatorial executive order. During downtime, I'm doing a little tidying, and it's amazing the things you find and realize you've held onto. At this time twenty years ago, I was probably be … Continue reading Y2K and Today
I have worked from home full-time for the past three years. I know a few people who have done so for a lot longer (decades), but, regardless of how long anyone I know has worked from home, we seem to have many of the same observations. Thanks to the coronavirus, we are becoming a lot … Continue reading Lessons on Working from Home
I am currently reading the book "Fierce Conversations" by Susan Scott. I am on hiatus from teaching my leadership course this year, so I am taking the opportunity to refresh my content and my perspectives. The basis of the book is fairly simple: Our work, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail one conversation … Continue reading Open – Beyond Technology