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A concrete bike path illuminated by neon red OMSI sign on the left. The Tilikum bridge is illuminated in the background.

Biking Portland: November 23, 2024

Biking, Photography

I can’t say I was in the mood to ride my bike, today, but with dry roads and nothing but rain in the forecast, I had to take advantage. And anyway, I had to go across town to do a…

Dear Internet

Miscellaneous

How are you doing? Good? Good! There’s some things I think we should talk about. You know we go way back. From CDs in the mail with internet minutes, from AOL screen names and chatrooms asking ASL, from waiting literally…

The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location is a Lie!!!

Back End, Development, Edge Compute, Front End, JavaScript

A post discussing the nuances around location-based programming. Various ways to access user location, how they can fail, and what to do about it.

I Deployed My Own Cute Lil’ Private Internet (a.k.a. VPC)

Development, Presentation

This post covers what I've learned about Akamai's VPC, how I deployed one with Terraform, and why it's good for security.

Advanced Architecture for AI Application (AKA AAAA!)

AI, Development

This post covers infrastructure improvement ideas for an existing AI application's architecture for better delivery, performance, and cost-reduction.

AI for Web Devs: Deploying Your AI App to Production

AI, Development

This post covers preparing our app for production, deploying to a VPS, running it with a process manager, and using a reverse-proxy with an SSL.

AI for Web Devs: Addressing Bugs, Security, & Reliability

AI, Development, Security

In this post we'll walk through our existing AI application and address bugs, security, and reliability concerns for most apps and AI apps specifically.