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Bryan Hermsen

Okay, Just Not a Certain Class of Tweets Then

...I also wonder if the cutting wit isn’t itself the insight. I’d propose that in some cases the act of calling out the game helps others see something they may have simply taken for granted, or taken as a hardened truth instead of as a point of negotiation

No Ancient Tweets for Me Please

Lapham's Quarterly is one of my all-time favorite publications. It's packed with art and philosophy, poetry and essays from ancient to modern times. Each issue follows a theme, and they do a fantastic job of bringing all of these works together into a brilliant collection. Their

Interesting Things

A small sample of interesting things

Ambient Cheery Mayhem

My two kids have been learning remotely since the beginning of the pandemic. With my wife and I both working remotely, and with her having a flexible schedule, we're one of the very lucky families for whom this is a totally feasible option. Eventually there will be whole

DevOps, Horizontal and Vertical Scaling, and Yoga

The Digital Ocean Deploy conference is going on right now. I watched a few sessions yesterday and, for the most part, it was fairly typical. There were your keynotes highlighting success stories and talking up the company, breakouts touting new features, and technical talks. But simultaneously there was an entire

The Climate Bootcamp

Recently I learned about Terra.do, which is something like an online bootcamp for climate change. They have a 12-week training course that covers the entire landscape of climate change from weather science to energy systems, to lobbying and activism. They even include courses on the psychological impacts of climate

Pandas is Magic

Pandas is a hugely popular Python library for doing data analysis. After having used it for around a year now I can safely say that it deserves all off the hype that it gets. Pandas is mostly know for its use in the data science space. Since I'm

HIT Training (Hopefully It's There)

In the early days of the pandemic there was a brief period of time where you heard people (I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and call them well-meaning people) telling you that this quarantine period was the perfect time to buckle down and execute on something

Make a Google Doc, Save the Planet (many small synergies)

I've written previously about my winding journey into climate advocacy and how, since finding CCL, I've continually found myself outside of my comfort zone. Some of that journey has involved "big scary things" like lobbying on the Hill or taking responsibility for big technical

Ubuntu

About 15 or 16 years ago (yikes!) I was running a software training session in Florida and got to chatting with a technician that worked at that location. When he found out that I was into computers he became very excited and got out an Ubuntu live CD, put it