• 11/11/19

  2019 MLS Cup Final Ticket Prices Data

  I proclaimed ticket prices would go down within 48 hours of kick-off. I was wrong.

• 11/7/19

  Simple Scripting Getting ssmtp on UNIX with gmail Working

  I use cron, ssmtp, bash, and curl for a lot of simple 30 min projects.

• 10/13/19

  What is LightGBM, How to implement it? How to fine tune the parameters? Updated.

  I ran across a post on LightGBM which needs a little updating to make work.

• 10/11/19

  Back to Blogging

  These last 3 years have been a whirlwind for my career and it's funny to think I'm back where I started.

• 9/11/16

  Escape Rooms in Barcelona and Madrid

  One thing Tina and I love to do while on vacation is check out their escape games. It's a great way to breakup touring and every country does it differently.

• 9/10/16

  Apple iPhone 7 Upgrade Cost Analysis

  Below I’ve done an analysis on Apple’s own upgrade program vs. buying a new phone each year and selling it vs. buying a new phone and keeping it for 2 years and selling it. I also noted 2 important points I found out about the buying process below.

• 9/9/16

  Legos for Developers

  As a developer, you are constantly iterating on your code. I never consider anything truly finished and sometimes I just want to build something to completion.

• 8/19/16

  Top 5 Millenial Tips for Retirement

  While working on our latest idea at Madrona Venture Labs, I had the opportunity to dive deep into the financial technology space and one problem I found really interesting was the amount of millennials who hadn’t started or even thought of starting to plan for retirement.

• 11/6/14

  11 Tips to Optimize Elasticsearch

  I've been using Elasticsearch for a few months now and I was surprised at how little documentation there was about how to improve Elasticsearch performance. Here are 11 tips.

• 10/29/14

  Rsyslog Configuration Tutorial

  This is the first step in a 3 part series to get our log data in to kibana to visualize. Getting rsyslog to cooperate though was a grueling task due to a high amount of bad and outdated documentation on google.