A style guide for my work at Minnesota IT Services partnering with Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MNIT MPCA). This guide provides editorial guidelines for writing technical documentation at ...

The summer of 2024 we gave the beds a rest. As planned, we gave our raised garden beds a rest from nightshades. Wet, wet, wet spring and early summer, followed by drought conditions. 2024 ...

In early October 2024, the Google research tool called NotebookLM caused a viral sensation due to the Audio Overview (aka deep dive) feature that generates a two-host podcast. My colleague’s expe...

In some ways, technical debt is like financial debt. When you carry too much, it can be overwhelming and prevents you from accomplishing much else. In an ideal world, the best way to handle finan...

25 City Tin coasters. 25 restaurants we won’t visit. Four years later, still processing my pandemic sh*t. Not really. I am just moving notes and journal entries off a service I don’t use anymore....

My best pandemic project. We have a small garden bed along the front of the house with perennials that don’t really get going until summer. I was inspired by Gail Brown Hudson’s article in Northe...

Making maple syrup from our silver maples in the winter that wasn’t. Tap the trees , collect the sap , boil the sap , finish the syrup 2024 sugaring by the numbers 6 days from tap day to boil...

Words matter. Thoughts on inclusive language in your communications, documentation, and team standards. Using inclusive language is good business and a basic requirement in public service. Guide...

The summer of 2023 was about change. Different sun exposure after the removal of eight mature trees in 2023, including six green ash killed by emerald ash borer. (We saw our first adult EAB Ju...

Making maple syrup from our silver maples. The process of collecting maple sap and boiling it to make syrup is called sugaring. We’ve been sugaring since 2020. Tap the trees > collect the sap ...