Mixing a Song Is a Lot Like Building a Power Flow Case đź”—
I’ve been writing music for several years now. What started with an alto sax in marching band has evolved into 9 guitars, a five-string bass, a drumse [...]
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Crossed Wires: When Expectations Obscure Reality đź”—
A recurring theme in both life and work is expectation versus reality, and how basing your understanding too much on previous patterns can blind you t [...]
Learning to love other people’s code. 🔗
As developers, I think we’ve all been there. A client asks for a “small change” to a project you’re maintaining. You didn’t write the code, but the re [...]
What We Learned at NASPI đź”—
The power grid is evolving faster than ever, and the discussions at this year’s Novel Applications for Synchronized Power Instrumentation (NASPI) Work [...]
Exploring the CIM Through the Organizations That Make It Happen đź”—
“Coming together is a beginning;keeping together is progress;working together is success.” —Henry Ford Image source: The School of Athens by Raphael ( [...]
What an Air Traffic Control Tower Taught Me About Software Design đź”—
While on a trip to Phoenix, a friend of mine who is a retired air traffic controller was able to arrange a tour through the local union rep of the con [...]
Building a UX Research Brain: Atomic Research, Zettelkasten, and Obsidian đź”—
If you work in product design or research, your organization has likely suffered from a chronic condition that I like to call “Research Amnesia.” It u [...]
Patterns of Knowing in Product Design đź”—
Intro In Marty Cagan’s book Inspired, he describes the frustrating experience of laboring long to develop product features that went ignored by consum [...]
The Tmux Intro I Wish I Had Gotten đź”—
I’ve been using tmux for five or six years now. I encountered it on a project that was using Overmind to locally manage processes for an application u [...]
A New Kind of Load. The Same Old Playbook. đź”—
Originally published in our March The Current newsletter. Subscribe on LinkedIn. — — ERCOT has more than 225 GW of large load requests working through [...]