SPEX for quick FHIR patient queries
TLDR: Use SPEX to view raw JSON results for FHIR queries against production and test servers. It’s a simple, static, open source web app. Your health data stays on your device, not mine. I hope you find it useful! The Why It seems like every few months I end up working on FHIR apps for…
The Right Tool for the Job
I hate calling folks to fix stuff at the house. I’m kind of an introvert, and having people hanging around just puts me on edge. But more than that, it seems like I ought to be able to do these things myself. And often I can, albeit with an extra trip or ten to the…
Adventures in 3D Design: FreeCAD
3D printing is key to an abundant world. We use a lot of stuff. And until now, the most efficient way for the most people to have the most stuff has been to specialize — big, centralized factories custom-tooled to build a whole bunch of whatever (potato chips, cars, iPhones, toilet paper) and ship it…
Not Good at That
Folks often seem surprised to hear I didn’t get a Computer Science degree. Back in the late 80s, CS was still considered (at least at my school) mostly a math discipline and, despite apparent expectations, I am decidedly not a fan of advanced math. I handled this by combining two things I do love (CS…
Turtles all the way down
Every business is a process shop — a tangled mess of human and automated activities that work together to produce something folks are willing to pay for. And even as AI starts to handle specific jobs and tasks, that inherent complexity doesn’t go away. Enterprise software is the glue that keeps the machine running, and…
I Want This Future
Stellar is a bonkers book, full of crazy word salad arrow-filled diagrams that make very little sense. At the same time, it makes a credible argument for an amazing future — an optimistic, beautiful, qualitative leap forward for humanity that I want to be part of. Even if you don’t buy all of their conclusions,…
Quick thoughts on verifying AI content
I really just meant this to be a response to Scott on LinkedIn, but both as a comment and an update they said it was too long. I thought they were all about keeping content on their own site? Seems self-defeating. Ah well. My old friend Scott Porad asked a really good question about my…
“Doing my own research”
To be clear, the title here is tongue-in-cheek. Real “research” involves carefully-designed and bias-controlled experiments, and there ain’t none of that below. My intended point is just that we’re all capable of digging deeper in ways that haven’t been the case before the advent of LLMs. Arming yourself with these tools is one way to…
On Trails. Also Ants.
I swear it was a coincidence that I was reading On Trails just at the moment when my dad and I road-tripped a small moving truck from Florida to Colorado (go Penske). But it did make for some interesting connections. While it opens and closes with discussions of the Appalachian Trail and the International AT,…
110 Posts and Counting
I realized today that I’ve written 109 (well I guess 110 now) long-form posts on shutdownhook.com since February 2021, the month I quit my job at Adaptive Biotechnologies and updated my LinkedIn bio to “Retired?” (now it’s got an exclamation point). That’s about two a month; sometimes more, sometimes less. Not bad. I do link…
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