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California has been in something of a dry spell for the last few years. 85% of the state is in Severe Drought, thanks to climate change. Unfortunately the flip side is sometimes we just get absolutely hammered with rain. Back in October of 2021 my local rain gauge registered 7 inches of precipitation. Since then…
painted-ladies-full-house Hi there, My name is Josh Johnson. I’m interested in leasing the property at . A little background about me: I currently work at Okta (www.okta.com), where I’ve been for two years in the Engineering department. I’m a quiet, computer-centric type who is looking for a new place to live as my current roommate…
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IMG_5098 Dateline: 2016-01-10 The holidays have come and gone, but the urban garden is not forgotten. While we were gone for Christmas and New Years, the plants have survived. Fortunately for the green things it’s continued to be a wet winter in San Francisco. Unfortunately for said plants, it’s also been quite cold. We’ve had…
IMG_0972 On Monday I visited the AWS Popup loft in San Francisco (again) and attended the Bootcamp on “Architecting Highly Available Applications on AWS”. Rather than try and re-summarize it, I’ll let the course description do the talking: “This beginner-level bootcamp teaches you how to apply the principles of elasticity, mitigating single points of failure…
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IMG_9199 Over a year ago, Amazon Web Services built their nifty Popup Loft in San Francisco. Since then they’ve hosted a ton of cool events, including a very regular series of all day, hands on labs. The labs are free, everything is provided, even lunch. There’s one critical issue (for most people): getting time off…
View larger map It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted any of the ride routes I’ve been on. Not all of them are easy to remember the exact routes, so I won’t share misinformation with you. However this route was fairly easy to map out (and I had made notes!). This particular ride I…
