Anyone in the PDX area switch from gas furnace to a heat pump? How was the experience?

Curious if anyone has a more recent design patterns type (or software architecture) book that they’d recommend over the Gang of Four book?

Maybe tailored towards monolithic Rails apps?

Literally no one:

My wife, off for the summer from her middle school teaching job: I kinda wish I had a history paper to write.

Portland friends, what do you think of Single Transferable Vote? I love this explainer, the best I've seen on the subject, just curious how it's working on the ground.

(Awww Gus.)

Agh, no-see-ums!

I am on the job market, so if you know of any Data Science/Data Analytics/Analytics Engineering openings, please send em my way. 20+ years of varied experience, including “only data person at tiny company”
Based in Portland, OR - good at working remote.

www.linkedin.com/in/amsantos/

I hadn’t really looked at mastodon or bluesky in a month or so and it was pretty nice. I feel like I had fewer worries bouncing around in my head. But, I kinda miss seeing what you all are up to. Trying to figure out what the right social media path forward is for me.

Aurora from my house in SE Alaska last night. iPhone really pulling out the colors and brightening it up.