Making PowerShell “Posh”
Back in the days when DOS and Windows were separate programs, the default Command Prompt didn’t look exactly the way that it does now. I can’t recall if it w...
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As a Data Engineer using Mirth Connect, it’s often tricky to review my team’s merge requests because the merge request document contains the XML representati...
PowerShell Short Scripts
When dealing with Python dependencies, it’s sometimes necessary to determine if a given project is using a given version of a library. Since our team is usin...
Storing dotfiles in GitHub Revisited
A while ago, I wrote about using a bare git repository to manage my dotfiles. That worked somewhat well, but it had some shortcomings. Since, I’ve started us...
Python Context Managers
One of my current projects involves some improvements to code that I wrote last year – specifically enhancing the “Patient Identity Fixer”, which is my pet p...
PowerShell for Data Transformation: StringData
To borrow from a favorite web comic: whenever I learn a new skill, I concoct elaborate fantasy scenarios where it lets me save the day. Actually, it feels li...
PowerShell for Data Transformation: XML
This one bugged me for a few days. I don’t think this script is the best solution to the problem at hand, but it was still fun to figure out.
PowerShell for Data Transformation: JSON
My team at work has a custom FHIR resource that we work with often called an Operation Outcome. We generate one of these for nearly every record we process, ...
FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Trivia of the Day
a.k.a. Why I Don’t Use Nano
Raspberry Pi Zero W “Busy Light”
COVID-19 has us many of us working from home. My husband and I are both fortunate enough to be in this group. However, as a teacher, his schedule is very pre...
Raspberry Pi Setup Script
When I set up a Raspberry Pi, there are a few things that I have to do right out of the gate to make things easier on myself. They involve putting a few file...
Storing dotfiles in GitHub
While I don’t use Linux as my primary operating system, I do use it a lot both at home and at work. It can be frustrating to try to sync up configurations be...
Nitro Cold Brew at Home!
Anyone who knows my husband or me knows that we really like our cold brew, and they also know that we make our own at home. Nitro cold brew has become a bit ...
OpenVPN On Raspberry Pi
So you want to run an OpenVPN Server on a Raspberry Pi? I did too, but it wasn’t easy to figure out the first time. If you want to skip all of this and do it...