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Castle: Happy Autism Awareness Day
2 Apr 2024 • 3 min read

Castle: Happy Autism Awareness Day

About Shaelynn Castle Shaelynn has been recognized in her local community for advocacy in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome, which represents a high level functionality form of autism. She graduated from University of Houston - Downtown with bachelor's in special education and works for a

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12 Jan 2023 • 2 min read

Setting Up Ghost to Use DigitalOcean Spaces Storage Integration

Update 1/13/2023: Added background information about DigitalOcean Spaces. Background I've wanted to integrate DigitalOcean for my blog for a while and decided to try the platform since it is straightforward to use and integrate into the site. This would reduce the headaches and overhead of managing

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2 Jan 2023 • 2 min read

Dear Twitter, I quit.

You read that right. I am indeed leaving Twitter for good.

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Adafruit releases CircuitPython 6.2.0
5 Apr 2021 • 2 min read

Adafruit releases CircuitPython 6.2.0

Product image via Adafruit shop. Sign up to the mailing list when the Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 goes back in stock at Adafruit and get yours! CircuitPython from Adafruit Industries is the fastest growing community of all things programming microcontroller computers in Python for hobbyists and makers, alike. CircuitPython supports

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15 Oct 2020 • 2 min read

Converting epoch (UNIX) time to SQL Server datetime

The solution that solved it all.

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28 Jul 2019 • 13 min read

Interview with Chris Oliver

On July 20, 2015, I hosted an AMA with Chris Oliver to get some of the burning questions answered about work, life and everything in between. About Chris Oliver: Chris Oliver is a lead developer at One Month, and now founder of GoRails and co-founder of LaunchCode. Oliver has been

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21 Jun 2019 • 1 min read

Moving off Medium

It’s been a while since I last wrote a story on here, but I’m moving off the platform in a new direction. Hello everyone, In the coming months, I will begin transitioning out of Medium and drive my blog into self-hosting with the variants of taste and style

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1 Jun 2018 • 3 min read

Life After Humble ISD's MOSAIC Program

Shortly after the ceremony, I now graduated from the MOSAIC program. It feels pretty awesome that I’m enjoying something that I truly embrace for the moment—looking back for the past almost three years at the program of friendship, leadership, and role model for the program. Of course, it

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20 May 2018 • 1 min read

My MOSAIC End-of-the-Year Closing Remarks

The presentation I presented as part of the Closing Remarks for Humble ISD Mosaic program.

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Lone Star College — Kingwood Student Life Summer Leadership Retreat 2017 Recap
18 Aug 2017 • 11 min read

Lone Star College — Kingwood Student Life Summer Leadership Retreat 2017 Recap

The trip of a lifetime.

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16 Jun 2017 • 1 min read

Open Letter to Humble ISD MOSAIC Class of 2017

An open letter that I sent out to the Class of 2017 graduates.

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28 Jul 2015 • 13 min read

Interview with Chris Oliver

Foreword: I added some information since the initial Medium publication at Starting Day One as the publication is no longer being maintained and wanted to preserve the data for historical archives. I have since edited minor grammar mistakes, added additional information about Chris’ portfolio of stuff he built in 2022,

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21 May 2015 • 6 min read

The Alexandra Grant AMA Interview

About Alexandra Grant Alexandra Grant, at the time of writing, was a full-stack developer for Digg. Previously, she worked for the NSA as a developer. Grant graduated from Dartmouth College with BS in Computer Science Foreward Back in May 2015, Erik Finman hosted an interactive AMA with Alexandra Grant in

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26 Nov 2014 • 6 min read

#CPSLV1: The Complete Campus Party Experience (English Version)

Campus Party is annual-week long tech conference festival where thousands of hackers, developers, gamers, geeks and so forth unite to bring the edge of tomorrow.

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22 Sep 2014 • 1 min read

The Chronicles Adventures of Choir

For the sake of God, this might even make you cry happily.

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