I need to step up some of the learning that I do on my own, outside of my job. Despite kids, household responsibilities, social calendar, marriage, hobbies, working out, ... kids, I am at a point in my "reset" of my career where it's not enough to work only during working hours if I really want to succeed. This outside learning comes in the form of reading books, taking courses, and actually…
This year, I made it a point to start really investing time in the iPad as my primary medium for creating art. I use it to draw, sketch, paint, and I try to use it often. The rationale is it requires no setup, is portable, available, and all the tools I need are right there. It's much easier to remember to just bring one thing to a restaurant with the kids, to work, to the playground, etc. or even…
This holiday, my husband and I spent our free time geeking out over building our first gaming PC. I'd had a desktop computer when I was a kid and my dad gave me the parts to put it together, but that was a long time ago. Quang hadn't put together a computer before and he did all the research to find the right components for our price point and tier. Here's the specs for what we built: CPU : AMD…
Use this form to calculate the one-time upload cost and recurring monthly cost of storing your data in Amazon Glacier as of 1/1/2018. This is specifically using S3 bucket to store the data and making a lifecycle request to convert that data to Glacier tier (the way Arq Backup client executes backup). It does not estimate retrieval costs, deletion costs, or additional incremental backups. It is…
I've been backing up my home data to a Drobo 5N NAS for a few years now, but never felt fully comfortable about the idea that if my home were to burn down, that data would be gone. I messed around with CrashPlan before, thinking I would take advantage of the unlimited space but I think they stopped offering that. Also I wasn't able to get the headless agent on the machine and the steps were…
I’ve been at Pinterest since around December 2014 and have been loving it on the web platform team. A few months ago (June-ish?) we had our first reorg ever and I found myself, for the first time, on a new team. Our team had had some minor churn but nothing quite as large as this. Focusing on performance has been a pretty interesting change of pace. The first order of business was to basically…
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