BMS's Blog - Brian Stempin

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Brian Stempin's personal blog on backend engineering, data processing, hardware projects, and life.

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The Power of Completion: A Tale of a Backend Engineer's Need to Actually Finish Something #Backend #Engineering #Productivity
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Mar 29, 2023
A Library For Creating LED Animations #Hardware #Programming #Maker
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Dec 2, 2021
Dealing With Excel Data in PySpark #DataEngineering #Python #BigData
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Oct 5, 2017
PySpark Timestamp Performance #DataEngineering #BigData #Spark
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Sep 29, 2017
Replacing the Cron in AWS #CloudComputing #AWS #DevOps
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Feb 29, 2016
Introducing PySwfAws #Python #AWS #OpenSource
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Dec 23, 2015
JetBrians DataGrip Review #Software #Development #Tools
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Dec 22, 2015
Perhaps You've Noticed: I Have a New Blog #PersonalBlog #NewBeginnings #LifeUpdate
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Apr 6, 2015
Update to my Vindinium Client #Programming #Gaming #OpenSource
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Oct 21, 2014
Vindinium #Programming #Gaming #AI
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Sep 28, 2014
Because Enterprise #Enterprise #Backend #Engineering
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Mar 25, 2014
Getting Reacquainted with PHP #PHP #Programming #Backend
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Feb 28, 2014
Trying out Chololatey #Software #DevOps #Windows
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Sep 17, 2013
Why I Love Community Data Sources #Data #Community #OpenData
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Aug 13, 2013
ZOMG, Apache Camel is Awesome! #ApacheCamel #Backend #Engineering
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Jul 8, 2013
Donating My VPC CPU Time #OpenSource #Tech #Community
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Apr 3, 2013
Making the (Career) Move #Career #Tech #Engineering
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Jan 12, 2013
Gone and Back #Personal #Life #Reflection
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Dec 27, 2012
0 A.D. Wins Project of the Month on Sourceforge #OpenSource #Gaming #Community
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Jul 7, 2012
Loading the English Wikipedia Dump is a Huge Pain #Data #Engineering #OpenSource
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Jun 29, 2012
Book Review: Effective Java, Second Edition #Java #Programming #BookReview
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Apr 26, 2012
Boxee Box Review #Tech #Review #Hardware
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Mar 25, 2012
Working Hard on the 0 A.D. Website #OpenSource #Gaming #WebDev
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Jan 17, 2012
Welcome, 2012! #NewYear #Reflection #Personal
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Jan 2, 2012
GRUB2: Do Not Want #Tech #Linux #OpenSource
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Nov 11, 2011
Haunting at Eastern State Penitentiary #History #Travel #Paranormal
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Oct 21, 2011
Selling Stuff on eBay #Ecommerce #OnlineSelling #SideHustle
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Sep 26, 2011
Parting Ways with the Philadelphia BDPA #Community #Networking #ProfessionalDevelopment
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Sep 10, 2011
Minecraft Server #Gaming #Server #Tech
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Aug 21, 2011
Experimenting with the YouTube API in PHP #PHP #API #YouTube
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Jul 12, 2011
Better Way to Use OSM Data for Routing #OpenStreetMap #Routing #Data
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May 9, 2011
0 A.D. Alpha 4 Daedalus #Gaming #OpenSource #StrategyGames
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Mar 16, 2011
Moodle 2.0 Upgrade #Tech #Software #Education
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Mar 9, 2011
IPB3 Upgrade for Wildfire Games #Tech #Software #Gaming
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Mar 6, 2011
Editing Data with the Java OpenStreetMap Editor #OpenStreetMap #Java #Mapping
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Jan 31, 2011
Improving OpenStreetMap's Road Data #OpenStreetMap #Data #Mapping
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Dec 1, 2010
Ford Fiesta #Cars #Automotive #PersonalBlog
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Nov 20, 2010
Moving my GIS Project to my Linode #Backend #Data #Cloud
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Nov 15, 2010
My First Machine in the Cloud: Linode #CloudComputing #Virtualization #DevOps
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Oct 26, 2010
Public Code Samples #OpenSource #Coding #Software
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Oct 26, 2010