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Goodbye West

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags

React NextJS with framer motion: Docker, builds and deploy

Published Sep 12, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Last week we got started with React Next.JS building a basic website by hand. Today we’ll extend that to containerization, Github actions and deployments to both docker and Kubernetes. We’ll explo...

React NextJS with framer motion and markdown posts

Published Sep 7, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

My feed kept prompting me to check out a dev.to post about Next.js with React to create smooth Vercel based navbar experience in NodeJS.

Work Item Automations with JIRA

Published Sep 5, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Let’s extend the forms demo we did a week ago and try and use JQL over Work Item Queries to drive an automation.

Okta Personal

Published Aug 31, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I saw an advert come up for “Okta Personal” that caught my attention:

Issue Collection Forms with AzDO and JIRA

Published Aug 29, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve covered issue collectors before, such as using Azure DevOps to propegate Azure Work Items and then Github Issues.

Vacation and DevDays 2023 - why the lack of posts

Published Aug 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

First, I really thought I could be pro-active and clever and write a lot of content up front and keep things automated. It started okay, but then after a couple manual merges threw things off, I d...

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