It’s like a website in here…
Hi, there! I’m a software developer, and I’m currently working at the University of Wisconsin–Madison building one-stop shops for person and HR data needs using modern technologies in order to enable more resilient, vendor-neutral applications across the Universities of Wisconsin.
Self Links for Deeply Nested Resources in marshmallow-jsonapi
Resources nested more than 2 levels deep pose interesting challenges for the construction of self URLs in the marshmallow-jsonapi library. In this post, I explore a technique for constructing self-URLs for these deeply nested resources.
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AXS Ticketing: What a Way to Run a Railroad
While buying tickets to an event on AXS, I discovered multiple problems that indicate a complete death of quality control in their mobile and web services departments.
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Wisconsin’s Year 2900 Problem
4-digit term codes, themselves a solution to Y2K, will one day rear their ugly heads.
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Dead but Not Forgotten: Challenges in Representing the Deceased
In theory, representing the deceased is simple: only show them to people who need to know. In practice, this data has a lot of corner cases to address.
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STL — A Strange Place for a Layover
Imagine an airport that’s just one giant liminal space, even more so than airports already tend to be liminal spaces. You’ve just created the St. Louis Airport.
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