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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
Groundcover APM

Groundcover APM

Published Jun 11, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Groundcover is a new player in the observability space with a somewhat unique approach; rather than build all new systems one infra they host, we install instead on our own cluster and they only ma...

Github Attestation

Github Attestation

Published Jun 6, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Recently Github rolled out preview of Github Attestation that let one create “signed attestations” for anything built in Github Actions.

OS Apps: Glance and TimeTagger

OS Apps: Glance and TimeTagger

Published Jun 4, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I had two bookmarked apps I wanted to check out that originally were mentioned on MariusHosting. The first is a landing page that is YAML driven called Glance. Glance is easy to install and confi...

API testing with Yaade and Hoppscotch

API testing with Yaade and Hoppscotch

Published May 30, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I became aware of Yaade from a Marius Hosting writeup on launching Yaade with Portainer in Docker.

Google Project IDX, CodeServer and Gemini AI

Google Project IDX, CodeServer and Gemini AI

Published May 28, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Recently at Google I/O, Google rolled out IDX, their new IDE meant to compete with the likes of Microsoft’s VS Code.

AWS Amplify with Vite

AWS Amplify with Vite

Published May 24, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Some time ago a colleague at work suggested I dig into AWS Amplify. Today we’ll go over a lot of what Amplify includes. I was struggling to summarize the whole offering. I asked Gemini, which su...

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