shawnhoover.dev - Dev Notes https://shawnhoover.dev/notes en Sat, 23 May 2026 14:42:47 -0400 Sat, 23 May 2026 14:42:47 -0400 Emacs 29.1 Org-mode 9.6.6 shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png shawnhoover.dev - Dev Notes https://shawnhoover.dev/notes

Learnings, thoughts, and references collected in my software work.

test post-mx routing https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/test-post-mx-routing.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/test-post-mx-routing.html Sat, 23 May 2026 14:42:00 -0400 -- 23 May 2026

]]> Margaret Storey: How Will High-Performing Teams Adapt? https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/margaret-storey-how-will-high-performing-teams-adapt.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/margaret-storey-how-will-high-performing-teams-adapt.html Sun, 10 May 2026 09:25:00 -0400 -- 10 May 2026

]]> Marc Brooker: Testing Is Going to Be the Most Important Thing https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/marc-brooker-testing-is-the-thing.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/marc-brooker-testing-is-the-thing.html Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:48:00 -0400 -- 25 Oct 2025

]]> Amazon/Anthropic/et al.'s Indiana AI Energy Footprint https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/amazon-indiana-ai-energy-footprint.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/amazon-indiana-ai-energy-footprint.html Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:02:00 -0400 -- 28 Jun 2025

]]> MIT Technology Review - AI's Energy Footprint https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/mit-technology-review-ai-energy-footprint.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/mit-technology-review-ai-energy-footprint.html Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:35:00 -0400 -- 22 Jun 2025

]]> Running a Home AI Server With Open WebUI and AWS Bedrock https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/home-ai-server.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/home-ai-server.html Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:22:00 -0500 A walkthrough to set up a home AI server using open source tools and AWS Bedrock foundation models -- 02 Feb 2025

]]> Using DuckDB CLI in Emacs https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/emacs-sql-duckdb.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/emacs-sql-duckdb.html Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:54:00 -0500 A sql-interactive-mode configuration for DuckDB -- 04 Jan 2025

]]> Hermitage: Testing transaction isolation levels https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/hermitage-transaction-isolation-levels.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/hermitage-transaction-isolation-levels.html Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:28:00 -0400 A shout-out to the now decade-old project -- 23 Jun 2024

]]> Climate Change Reversal: Plans and Hope https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/climate-change-plans-hope.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/climate-change-plans-hope.html Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:06:00 -0400 -- 23 Jun 2024

]]> Charity Majors: Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/charity-majors-generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/charity-majors-generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you.html Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:54:00 -0400 -- 15 Jun 2024

]]> Keyboard Update: Palm Rest Prototype Is Live https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/keyboard-update-palm-rest-prototype-is-live.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/keyboard-update-palm-rest-prototype-is-live.html Sun, 19 May 2024 18:06:00 -0400 -- 19 May 2024

]]> MemoryDB: a strongly consistent Redis https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/memorydb.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/memorydb.html Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:43:00 -0400 Thoughts on the service from a practioner's perspective, inspired by Amazon's paper -- 28 Apr 2024

]]> A Foray into Mechanical Keyboards https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/a-foray-into-mechanical-keyboards.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/a-foray-into-mechanical-keyboards.html Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:16:00 -0400 -- 20 Apr 2024

]]> Making a Progressive Web App Installable https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/pwa-install.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/pwa-install.html Sat, 23 Mar 2024 13:20:00 -0400 Incantations required to make the install button appear on a few platforms -- 23 Mar 2024

]]> Programming the Portable Computer Telephone Device with Shortcuts (iOS) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/programming-the-portable-computer-telephone-device-with-shortcuts-ios.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/programming-the-portable-computer-telephone-device-with-shortcuts-ios.html Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:41:00 -0400 -- 20 Mar 2024

]]> "Expert Software Developers' Approach to Error" by Marian Petre https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/expert-software-developers-approach-to-error-by-marian-petre.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/expert-software-developers-approach-to-error-by-marian-petre.html Sat, 02 Mar 2024 15:04:00 -0500 -- 02 Mar 2024

]]> Ars Science: The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/ars-science-the-largest-us-dam-removal-effort-to-date-has-begun.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/ars-science-the-largest-us-dam-removal-effort-to-date-has-begun.html Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:02:00 -0500 -- 24 Jan 2024

]]> Viewing Listening Ports on any Platform (That I Use Regularly) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/netstat-and-friends.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/netstat-and-friends.html Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:01:00 -0500 Various commands to replicate the behavior of netstat -- 10 Dec 2023

]]> Exporting Web Pages to Kindle.app on iOS https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/exporting-web-pages-to-kindle-app-on-ios.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/exporting-web-pages-to-kindle-app-on-ios.html Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:00:00 -0500 -- 24 Nov 2023

]]> Posting to a Static Site by Email with GitHub Actions https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/email-to-git-workflow.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/email-to-git-workflow.html Sun, 12 Nov 2023 10:44:00 -0500 A Posterous-like, serverless workflow to create plain text blog posts from emails -- 12 Nov 2023

]]> Deploying a Static Site to AWS (in 2021-2023) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/static-site-aws-deployment.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/static-site-aws-deployment.html Sat, 04 Nov 2023 10:49:00 -0400 Steps to bootstrap a site on AWS with HTTPS -- 04 Nov 2023

]]> Email Still Works https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/email-still-works.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/email-still-works.html Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:03:00 -0400 -- 01 Nov 2023

]]> Approximating Queue Length with Little's Law https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/littles-law.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/littles-law.html Sat, 21 Oct 2023 09:20:00 -0400 Easy math, big perspective -- 21 Oct 2023

]]> Calculating CDFs in Sqlite https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/sqlite-cdf.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/sqlite-cdf.html Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:30:00 -0400 Quick reference using window functions -- 08 Oct 2023

]]> Exporting Sqlite Query Results to CSV in Emacs https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/emacs-sqlite-csv.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/emacs-sqlite-csv.html Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:23:00 -0400 A modest extension of sqlite-mode to add direct query and export functionality -- 30 Sep 2023

]]> Generating Histograms in Postgres https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/postgres-histograms.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/postgres-histograms.html Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:40:00 -0400 Quick reference using functions date_diff and width_bin -- 30 Sep 2023

]]> Emacs: Evaluating Expressions in the Minibuffer with Paredit https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/emacs-paredit-eval-minibuffer.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/emacs-paredit-eval-minibuffer.html Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:18:00 -0400 A config change to make the editor DWIM -- 23 Sep 2023

]]> Caching Emacs Binaries in GitHub Workflows https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/caching-emacs-binaries-in-github-workflows.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/caching-emacs-binaries-in-github-workflows.html Sat, 16 Sep 2023 11:59:00 -0400 Using the GitHub action cache for fun and... speed -- 16 Sep 2023

]]> Tracing TCP Connections on MacOS: Wireshark https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/wireshark-macos-tcp-trace.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/wireshark-macos-tcp-trace.html Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 Just use Wireshark -- 13 Sep 2023

]]> Cleaning up AWS Lambda functions on unsupported node.js runtimes https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/clean-up-unsupported-aws-lambda-functions.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/clean-up-unsupported-aws-lambda-functions.html Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:01:00 -0400 Commands to make emails from AWS go away -- 12 Sep 2023

]]> Introduction https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/introduction.html shawn@shawnhoover.dev (Shawn Hoover) https://shawnhoover.dev/notes/introduction.html Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400 Hello world -- 12 Sep 2023

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