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Workflows from Software to the Office — Silicon Mountain

I am a very wordy person, and I very rarely say things short and to the point. So when I do, it’s for a reason, to limit wiggle room or to…

5 min readNov 21, 2023

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Workflows from Software to the Office — Silicon Mountain

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Collaborative Grease — Silicon Mountain

Machines have many vital parts. If I asked you what an important part of a car is, you almost certainly just thought of something hard…

6 min readMar 29, 2023

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An image of greasy hands

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Cave Days: Does the Office have a Light and Dark mode?

If you go hunting for ideas and options on how a workplace should be lit, you are going to find a lot of recommendations. Some experts will…

5 min readNov 2, 2022

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Cave Days: Does the Office have a Light and Dark mode?

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Certification, What is it Good For?

If it is your first time reading one of my articles, I am a bit of a Technical Wizard, and I wear a lot of hats. In the theater of the…

5 min readSep 21, 2022

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Certification, What is it Good For?

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Living in the Middle: The Business of Punctuated Equilibrium.

Punctuated Equilibrium: Punctuated Equilibrium is part of Evolutionary Theory. It is the observation that most of the time life stays…

7 min readJun 2, 2022

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Living in the Middle: The Business of Punctuated Equilibrium.

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Adventures in “That’s Not How You are supposed to use that”

Object Oriented Jira Projects

6 min readMar 31, 2022

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A Simple Over Generalization: The 3 Types of Engineers.

There are many ways to lump things together; almost all of them are gross oversimplifications. I am not saying this isn’t one of them. I…

6 min readJan 19, 2022

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Stars over a hilly skyline

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Finding The Sweet Spot.

A story of project experimentation

5 min readJan 13, 2022

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Ryan J. Riker

Ryan J. Riker

I am an unconventionally extroverted DevOps engineer. That wears lots of different hats. I take my experiences and turn them into interesting observations.

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