Blog’d been kind quiet, yeah? I picked it up to write some stuff and found that my old friend travis-ci.org wasn’t really a thing anymore. I used Travis to build and publish this site for many moons really reliably. It was one of the OG continuous integration and deployment sites out there. They went all corporate or something.

So to dodge the corpos, I threw in with Microsoft over at GitHub using their Actions platform to publish this pile of bytes you’re reading.

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My five year old has been taking some online programming classes that teach fundamentals using block programming. He’s using this awesome iPad app ScratchJr that focuses on movement and animation. It has some really neat fundamental concepts and sneaks in some clever stuff like interprocess messaging.

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Keith Reid-Cleveland with BuiltInColorado featured BombBomb and its engineering staff in a piece about our work environment, values and goals. Below is Keith’s full interview with me about the team at BombBomb and what we look for in our people, and how we’ve beaten the odds as a bootstrapped SaaS in Colorado Springs. Enjoy!

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I’ve been feeling a bit in-between lately. Maybe some goals would help?

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I was very kindly invited to speak at DisurptHR Denver in April on the subject of using video to recruit the excellent talent. Here’s a recording of that talk!

My thesis is simply that you can do better at building relationships, trust and interest with prospects for jobs by sending video messages instead of plain text.

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One of my favorite technology events, DVLP Denver was kind enough to allow me present a talk I’m pretty fond of, Serverless Hotdog Detection last fall. I was delighted to see that they posted the video of it yesterday!

Special thanks to the DVLP Denver video crew for the flattering aspect ratio! In the talk I reference this great talk from the creator of the serverless framework that I also recommend you check out! Happy geeking!

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