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I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to map and analyze the museum. After designing the initial hardware and software for a GNSS-enabled LiDAR scanner, I built and tested it at the museum.
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized rail vehicles and maintaining railway infrastructure. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to create a 3D map of the museum, automatically identify tracks and overhead wire, and compute wire height and track gauge.
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
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Between Microsoft's two-day outage and the FAA ground stop yesterday, there's plenty of ink spilled about who's responsible, why these things happened, etc. But it made me think back to some of the infrastructure and ops teams I've worked on, and similar (though much smaller scale) outages we encountered. Having an ops mindset is fundamentally different from a development or project management mindset. And it took me over a decade of software development to understand why.
I’ve been getting back into the politics fandom this past month.
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The resiliency startup has slashed the amount it spends on AI; down from $4,500 per dev, per month, in August, to $1,600 now.
Nathaniel Christopher has a lovely recap of his time at WordCamp Canada. Very cool that the dashboard widget helped connect him to the local community. Hat tip: Anne.
