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Reviewing the 2024 Federal AI Use Cases Inventory
Diving into the massive 2024 Federal AI Use Cases Inventory to see how government agencies are actually using AI. Over 2,100 use cases? Let's break it down.
Open Sourcing Astro Themes
I've created a couple free & open source software Astro themes in 2024. In 2025, I'm going to up the ante and release 1 theme every other month.
Making the Web Fun Again: Building a Digital Zen Garden
Rediscovering the joy of building delightful web experiences through a digital Zen garden. A reminder that websites can be both technically sound and genuinely fun.
Practical Applications of AI in Personal Projects
A comprehensive guide on implementing AI features in personal projects, from content enhancement to user experience improvements.
An AWS Certified AI Practitioner Quick Study Guide
A brief post on how I prepared and passed the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam with less than 20 hours of total study time
Training An AI Model To Create Backyard Sports Characters
A brief post on how I fine tuned my first ever text-to-image model on the characters from Backyard Sports
How to Add Puppeteer to an AWS Lambda Function
AWS isn't always straight forward. Here's a brief guide to adding a Lambda Layer with Puppeteer + Chromium to an AWS Lambda function execution environment
Reflecting on Buildspace Nights & Weekends | Season 5
42 Days - Start to Finish for the Final _buildspace season - In Short Pod - A Way to Curate & Create a Hyper-Personalized Podcast.
Build Something For Yourself
After 1,000+ one-on-one mentor sessions, I often repeated some advice. This post embodies the most repeated, piece of advice I'd give to students.
So. Now What? Some Brief Reflection.
Quickly writing and sharing what is next for me. I'll look back on this post in a month or so to see what all holds true.
List of Government Design Systems
A design system is a collection of reusable components / standards that aid in digital product design & development.
Building a REI Resupply Used Inventory Notifier
Get notified of 'New' Used Gear. This was a humble attempt to help encourage people to minimize the impact on the Earth.
Backstage Software Template Repository
Solving a need that was discussed on Hacker News to put as many Software Templates for Backstage into a single place for other teams to use
What I Wish Someone Told Me Before Going Into Gov Tech
This is my take on another blog post titled 'What I Wish Someone Had Told Me' but after spending 4+ years in the Public Sector at the VA.
Tracking Estimated Website Carbon Emissions for 15,000+ Gov Domains
Read how I used GitHub Actions, puppeteer, and other tech to hack together a site in ~3 hours to track Estimated Website Carbon Emissions for Federal Websites.
What is Cabeça de Queijo?
Learn more about why I started and the tech stack behind Cabeça de Queijo - a Brazilian Green Bay Packers fan club based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Automating Astro Deploys to AWS from GitHub Actions
This website deploys in <60 seconds. Learn why having 'systems' in place can help speed up delivery time & minimize risk with small deploys.