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My Snowflake Set up with Terraform

I have been working with Snowflake since 2016 when I proposed and chose to bring it into Rent the Runway to replace our very painful on premise Vertica implementation (yes...

Happy 21st Birthday for SCN

Last week marked the 21st Anniversary from when I publicly launched SportsCollectors.net allowing collectors to join. It's been a pretty wild ride and I thought I would celebrate a little...

Fun First Project with my 3D Printer

I have long been curious about 3D printers and my daughter has been playing with CAD programs for her middle school STEM Club.  So I decided to do some research...

Automating Image Processing with Python

If you have been reading this blog, you'll know I collect sports cards. It's fun to share what I have with other collectors (by posting scans on sportscollectors.net, facebook, etc.)....

Open Source Data Tools I like

A few months ago I participated on a panel talking about something data related at a Snowflake user group. In the picture below, I am in the white button down shirt...

Your Dreams must be bigger than your fear

Last year I was eating lunch at a local Asian restaurant, and I pulled out an awesome message in my fortune cookie. It said, “Your dream must be bigger that...