Every day brings another layer to peel back from the Onion of Discovery, trying to figure out who I've been and who I think I am today.
As with many onions, there are sometimes tears involved; but they're usually worth it once you've got food in your belly.
Rather than use the standard Nest integration that comes included in Home Assistant, I opted to preserve a previous setup that utilized Homebridge to expose the Nest Thermostat to Home Assistant by way of a "virtual" Apple HomeKit hub — all to avoid paying the one-time $5 fee to Google for their developer account.
You'd think that the topic of declaring yourself as a notary would be pretty uneventful.
That is until you say so in front of a coworker.
Some volunteer, some are paid. All who show up are there to make the day* possible.
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education…”
I have a handful of things in the job realm. This will mostly read like a classic resume, sans the beautification required for a resume when actually sending it to a prospective employer. But really this is more of a "work-ish autobiography" and honestly that is more fun to write anyway.
I take pride in the work I do, though it's not always great.
Sometimes, just getting the work out the door is as good as you can do, and that is okay.
In 2019, I gave a presentation at the Twin Cities Drupal Camp while working at the University Minnesota in a…