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Optimizing spend in Snowflake

Since about 2016, I have introduced Snowflake at two of my day jobs (Rent the Runway and Luma Financial Technologies) and have witnessed the platform's considerable evolution.  As with any...

Dagster with Python, Singer, and Meltano

I have been a fan of Dagster for data orchestration for a little while and wanted to share some of the basics. There are a lot of cool things I...

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.)....