Kevin Mack

I am a well documented nerd and software developer.

Pennsylvania Joined on Apr 24, 2019 https://www.welldocumentednerd.com

Work

Cloud Solution Architect, Twitter @DocumentedNerd at Microsoft

Kevin Mack

Jan 4

Reconciling the Temporal Nature of Software Development

#softskills #technology #goodbetterbest #mindset

4 min read

Confused Dev Need Advice.

Yep absolutely, and understand where you are coming from. Th...

Jan 27

Confused Dev Need Advice.

See I would actually disagree here, given that things have go...

Jan 25

Confused Dev Need Advice.

Understand the confusion, and if it makes life easier as a ho...

Jan 25

Can you solve this interview problem?

I fail to see how this interview problem does anything other ...

Nov 8 '21

My books recommendations to enhance your Soft Skills as a developer

Would add Grit by Angela Duckworth Growth Mindset by Carol D...

Jun 9 '21

Pay cut to work remotely - Fair deal?‍

I would vote no, this is an unrealistic ask because to be hon...

Oct 21 '20

Have you ever felt to run away from programming?

Yep mix of imposter syndrome, burnout, and stress. The best ...

Apr 28 '20

MIT, Stanford, Harvard: 500 Free Computer Science Courses from World's Top-50 CS Universities

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Apr 2 '20

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Kevin Mack

Dec 16 '21

Cool Nerdy Gift Idea – Word Cloud

#nerdstuff #nerdproject #projects #technology

3 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 29 '21

Errors and Punishment – The Art of Debugging

#uncategorized #debugging #development #learning

7 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 29 '21

How to leverage a private modules in your YAML Pipelines

#uncategorized #modules #pipelines #python

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 29 '21

How to leverage templates in YAML Pipelines

#cloud #technology #ado #devops

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 2 '21

Poly-Repo vs Mono-Repo

#cloud #technology #ado #branching

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 2 '21

How to start a New Job in a Pandemic

#softskills #newjob

6 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 2 '21

Passing Values to a Orchestrator function in durable functions

#functions #programming #python

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 2 '21

Building modules in Python

#technology #codereuse #modules #python

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Feb 9 '21

Threading in Python

#technology #python #tipsandtricks

1 min read

Kevin Mack

Feb 9 '21

Quickly Deserializing in Python

#programming #python #tipsandtricks

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Feb 9 '21

Being your own enemy….Perfectionism

#softskills #expectations #perfectionism #productivity

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Feb 9 '21

Updating version numbers for Python Packages in Azure DevOps

#programming #technology #cicd #python

1 min read

Kevin Mack

Feb 9 '21

Tips for Job Interviews

#softskills #interview

5 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 11 '20

Generating Dummy Data for Event Hubs or Blob Storage

#technology #demo #utility

3 min read

Kevin Mack

Nov 5 '20

It’s that time of the year, What I learned from Hallmark movies 2020

#nerdstuff #softskills #hallmark

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Oct 21 '20

Enabling Remote State with Terraform

#technology #terraform

1 min read

Kevin Mack

Oct 13 '20

A simple trick to handling environments in Terraform

#technology #terraform

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Oct 1 '20

Leveraging a stream deck to assist productivity

#technology #devices

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Kevin Mack

Sep 22 '20

Career Lessons I’ve learned from TTRPGs

#softskills #nerd

13 min read

Kevin Mack

Sep 16 '20

Debt is bad, and Technical Debt is no different

#technology #technicaldebt

8 min read

Kevin Mack

Sep 8 '20

Navigating Career Decisions without analysis paralysis

#softskills #career #decisions #growth

12 min read

Kevin Mack

Sep 2 '20

Why you really need a private nuget feed

#codeproject #technology #configurationmanagem #nuget

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Aug 25 '20

MagicMirror on the Wall

#codeproject #nerdproject #projects #technology

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Aug 7 '20

Adding Application Insights to Azure Functions

#codeproject #technology #applicationinsights #telemetry

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Jul 30 '20

Learning how to use Power BI Embedded

#codeproject #gettingstarted #technology #embedded

3 min read

Kevin Mack

Jul 21 '20

Remote Gaming – Lessons Learned

#nerdproject #softskills #digital #fun

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Jul 16 '20

How to pull blobs out of Archive Storage

#technology #archive #blob #storage

3 min read

Kevin Mack

Jul 13 '20

Stem with Kids – Quarantine

#nerdproject #softskills #activities #fun

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 24 '20

Summer time: Managing Burnout

#nerdstuff #softskills #burnout #gaming

6 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 22 '20

Leveraging Private Nuget Packages to support Micro-services

#technology #microservices #nuget

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 22 '20

A Few Gotcha’s for Resiliency

#technology #availability

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 22 '20

Building CI / CD for Terraform

#projects #technology #automation #devops

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 22 '20

TerraForm – Using the new Azure AD Provider

#codeproject #technology #azuread #serviceprincipal

3 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 22 '20

Good practices for starting with containers

#codeproject #technology #containers #docker

7 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 22 '20

Fast and Furious: Configuration Drift

#technology #availability #configurationdrift

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 22 '20

Building a Reservoir of Good Will

#softskills

3 min read

Kevin Mack

Jun 22 '20

Configuring SQL for High Availability in Terraform

#codeproject #technology #availability #terraform

2 min read

Kevin Mack

May 18 '20

Weekly Links – 5/18

#links #privatelink #spark

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Kevin Mack

May 21 '20

Embracing the Chaos

#technology #engineering #practices

4 min read

Kevin Mack

May 14 '20

Terraform – Key Rotation Gotcha!

#codeproject #technology #keyvault #secrets

3 min read

Kevin Mack

May 14 '20

Configuration can be a big stumbling block when its comes to availability.

#technology #appconfiguration #availability #configuration

4 min read

Kevin Mack

May 14 '20

Weekly Links – 5/11

#links #hdinsight #zerotrust

2 min read

Kevin Mack

May 7 '20

Copying blobs between storage accounts / regions

#codeproject #technology #blob #copy

2 min read

Kevin Mack

May 5 '20

Azure Search SDK in Government

#codeproject #search #technology #azuregovernment

3 min read

Kevin Mack

May 5 '20

Weekly Links – 5/4

#links #build #coding #development

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 30 '20

Log Analytics – Disk Queries

#codeproject #technology #kql #loganalytics

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 28 '20

Book Review – The Infinite Game

#bookreviews #nerdstuff #softskills #bookreview

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 28 '20

Weekly Links – 4/27

#links #datalake #maps #migrate

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 23 '20

Cloud Networking and Security

#codeproject #technology #networking #security

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Kevin Mack

Apr 21 '20

AI / Analytics Tools in Azure

#ai #codeproject #technology

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 20 '20

Weekly Links – 4/20

#links #docker #dotnetcore #search

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 16 '20

How to pitch an idea! And make them actually want to do it.

#softskills #ideas

9 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 14 '20

Reserved Instances and where everyone gets it wrong

#codeproject #technology #costsavings

5 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 13 '20

Weekly – 4/13

#links #ai #azuregovernment #datascience

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 8 '20

Big Month for Azure Government

#technology #government

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 6 '20

Weekly Links – 4/6

#links #chatbots #serverless

2 min read

Kevin Mack

Apr 6 '20

Power BI Embedded … confused?

#technology #azure #azuregovernment #licensing

4 min read

Kevin Mack

Mar 30 '20

Weekly Links – 3/29

#links #disks #government #kidscoding

3 min read

Kevin Mack

Mar 25 '20

Governance in Azure Dev Ops

#technology #alm #azuread #azuredevops

5 min read

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