I love building. I often whip up quick little utilities to make my life easier or sometimes just to have fun with a project. I believe ideas should be freely available - it’s the execution of an idea that turns it into something larger. As such, I try to document all the random ideas I have in my personal GitHub. Feel free to go check them out and let me know if you find anything interesting....
If you weren’t aware, Bing.com has an awesome image of the day. Even better, they have a daily quiz(!) for every image. I like both a/ beautiful wallpapers and b/ mini-quizzes so I wrote a little macOS menubar app that updates the wallpaper daily with the Bing image of the day and also gives you a little link where you can take the quiz. Installation Either download from my GitHub releases or use Homebrew....
What is it? A simple calculator geared towards converting data sizes. For example, I often need to do some conversions from bytes to something more human-readable: 585828 👇 572.10 KB You can even do math! Say we transferred 233033728 bytes in 7 days, we can divide by 7 to get the per-day number. 233033728/7 👇 910.29 KB Where can I find it? I’ve got a version anybody can use at dacort....
All good ideas start with a Tweet. 😁 Perhaps a silly question, but does anybody have an ETL framework where they just spin up docker containers with different params? pic.twitter.com/rvDRVTD3gY — Damon Cortesi (@dacort) February 10, 2021 I’m often hopping around to different APIs and only want a slice of data. And I get frustrated with having to: Find the right API client Reimplement authentication Store credentials in different places Maintain it And so on, and so on....
I made this while working at Metabase. As the Head of Success Engineering, I was often tasked with helping customers reproduce various edge cases. As part of this, we often needed more logs. The classes I wanted to enable DEBUG logs for also often differed depending on the specific situation the customer was encountering. 💁 Did you know that log4j supports loading a configuration from an https URL? I didn’t....
I first used Metabase in 2016 when I built an internal BI site for my startup, Simply Measured. I joined AWS in 2017, largely because I was so inspired by Amazon Athena. So it only made sense that in 2019 I would make a Metabase Athena Driver…shortly before I joined the Metabase team. 🙌...