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Turning an AWS Transcribe JSON file into a more useful doc

A colleague recently needed to transcribe some recorded interviews. They used AWS Transcribe which outputs a json file that is not super easy to use directly. Luckily a few open source tools have popped up to make them more generally legible. I helped to turn the results into a docx and wanted to document the process for my colleague and anyone else interested in the process.

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Hiring from Denver Coding Bootcamps - 2019

I've had some friends and acquaintances inquire about the idea of "code bootcamps" in Denver. I'm vaguely aware of them, but haven't really looked at them too closely. I've had some great experiences working with graduates of a bootcamp program in LA and wanted to review the Denver options to see what's available and how to hire from them.

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Colorado flowers that bees like best

These flowers were suggested by Denver Botanic Gardens as varieties that do well in Colorado and create blooms all year long to help pollinators. They were selected by monitoring for which varieties bees are particularly drawn to. I searched and found the local Rocky Mountain companies Botanical Interests and High Country Gardens sells seeds for many of them.

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Where can you get worm castings in Denver?

As a gardener in Denver I've heard of worm castings as a potential soil supplement/fertilizer before. I've been composting with a traditional aerobic/thermophilic system for a while. The research I've done recently is that worm castings or vermicompost is a much better fertilizer than traditional compost:

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Lightweight Disaster Recovery Simulation: Dungeons and Dragons style

Disasters happen. When they do, are you ready to handle it with grace? In general people get good at handling events that they experience regularly, but high-risk disasters are managed so they don't happen often. It's not every day that power goes out at the primary data center, but when it does you want to be sure that your auto-fail-over actually works. You want to be sure your backups actually work.However, testing disaster preparedness often takes too much time time and creates little organizational value.

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my schedule

My schedule is pretty flexible: 7 to 5:30 most days.

Monday busy from 10:30 to 11:30.
Tuesday busy from 7 to 9 and 4 to 5:30.
Wednesday busy from 4:00 to 5:30.
Thursday busy from 8 to 9:00, 10:30 to 11:30 and 4:00 to 5:30.
Friday generally free.

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