Last month I became an AWS Certified Solutions Architect by passing the SAA-C02 exam. [Crowd Applause Here] This was one of the most difficult exams I have ever studied for. The sheer number of products and services that you need to be familiar with is daunting. It isn’t an exam where skimming some technical documentation and you will get the certification. Experience is a requirement! I had been playing around with AWS service in my spare time for a couple months before I started to study in earnest for the SysOps exam at the beginning of November 2019. Yes, the SysOps exam. Originally, I...…Last month I became an AWS Certified Solutions Architect by passing the SAA-C02 exam. [Crowd Applause Here] This was one of the most difficult exams I have ever studied for. The sheer number of products and services that you need to be familiar with is daunting. It isn’t an exam where skimming some technical documentation and you will get the certification. Experience is a requirement! I had been playing around with AWS service in my spare time for a couple months before I started to study in earnest for the SysOps exam at the beginning of November 2019. Yes, the SysOps exam. Originally, I...WW…

[EDIT: 9/25/20 — Alphablocks and Numberblocks is now on Netflix!] Anytime I hear about a problem with YouTube Kids I can’t help but think that the problem could have been avoided. YouTube, for all the problems that it seems to have (and there are too many to walk through here), it has some quality content on it. Finding that content can be difficult and takes a keen eye to weed out the garbage. Using search, your best parental judgment and some common sense, you too can make YouTube Kids a safe place for them to go. First thing first: I’m not going to defend YouTube and their bizarre...…[EDIT: 9/25/20 — Alphablocks and Numberblocks is now on Netflix!] Anytime I hear about a problem with YouTube Kids I can’t help but think that the problem could have been avoided. YouTube, for all the problems that it seems to have (and there are too many to walk through here), it has some quality content on it. Finding that content can be difficult and takes a keen eye to weed out the garbage. Using search, your best parental judgment and some common sense, you too can make YouTube Kids a safe place for them to go. First thing first: I’m not going to defend YouTube and their bizarre...WW…

I just completed rewatching Parks and Recreation. I have forgotten just how much I enjoyed this show. You just can’t get enough Ron Swanson, Andy Dwyer, April Ludgate, Ben Wyatt or Leslie Knope in your life. It’s one of the few shows that I could rewatch over and over without complaint. In the later episodes of the show’s seven season run, a company called Gryzzl comes into play. |— Spolers from here on out. I’m going to give you this warning. If you haven’t seen all of P&R and for whatever reason don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading here. —| Gryzzl is a mashup of three big tech...…I just completed rewatching Parks and Recreation. I have forgotten just how much I enjoyed this show. You just can’t get enough Ron Swanson, Andy Dwyer, April Ludgate, Ben Wyatt or Leslie Knope in your life. It’s one of the few shows that I could rewatch over and over without complaint. In the later episodes of the show’s seven season run, a company called Gryzzl comes into play. |— Spolers from here on out. I’m going to give you this warning. If you haven’t seen all of P&R and for whatever reason don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading here. —| Gryzzl is a mashup of three big tech...WW…