Main Page

This wiki serves as my professional and public knowledge base. It's where I go to save information that I think will be useful in the future, for myself or others. I like to start with a few simple rules:

• To retrieve information, I should know where to start: a Schelling point. For me, it's wiki.klenwell.com, this page.
• It shouldn't take me more than three clicks to get from my starting point to the information I'm looking for.
• Links/URLs will tie everything together. They are the edges in my knowledge graph. Keep the graph shallow.

To minimize spam and maintenance costs, public edit access is restricted.

Professional Interests

Management

• Hiring
• Planning
• Agile Scrum
• Best Practices

Software Development

• Ruby-on-Rails
• Python
• Git
• Code Smells

DevOps

• Ansible

Personal Interests and Preoccupations

• Epistemology
• Epidemiology
• Queues
• Surfing

Projects

• CrudCraft
• ForeKarma
• LastGoogle
• Mushpup
• Scrumwell

Timeline

A few recent interesting or noteworthy things I've seen or done:

• 2021.04.20 I receive my first vaccination shot.
• 2021.03.21 I estimate COVID immunity levels in Orange County.
• 2021.03.14 Updates data source for daily US COVID-19 export from Atlantic COVID Tracking Project to federal government.
• 2021.02.14 Winter storm devastates Texas.
• 2021.01.06 Trump urges right-wing mob to storm Capitol as Congress certifies Joe Biden’s election victory.
• 2021.01.01 The New Year begins with a new mild Santa Ana blowing through Southern California. Rose Parade cancelled due to COVID-19.
• 2020.12.28 I start a new job.
• 2020.12.02 Santa Ana winds start the Bond Fire.
• 2020.11.07 Joseph R. Biden Jr. elected 46th President of the United States.
• 2020.11.03 America goes to the polls. (Or doesn't if, like me, they voted by mail.)
• 2020.11.02 I explain the different types of OC COVID-19 test data.
• 2020.10.27 Dodgers win World Series for first time since 1988!
• 2020.10.23 I am laid off.
• 2020.10.11 Los Angeles Lakers win 2020 NBA Championship.
• 2020.10.01 President Trump reveals he has tested positive for the coronavirus.
• 2020.09.07 I make the mistake of clicking on Universal Paperclips.
• 2020.09.06 Historically hot Labor Day weekend in California spawns (more) wildfires and smoke. (Real-time satellite view.)
• 2020.09.02 I review the COVID-19 numbers for OC in August and make a few predictions for September.
• 2020.08.23 Trump pushes emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 through FDA.
• 2020.08.22 I analyze the surge in COVID-19 cases in Orange County this summer.
• 2020.08.09 Hacker News comment introduces me to the world's only alpine parrot, the magnificent Kea.
• 2020.08.04 Massive explosion devastates Beirut, Lebanon.
• 2020.07.27 If you're a baseball fan and a covid fan, then do I have the Reddit thread for you: https://redd.it/hyrybi
• 2020.07.18 I share on Reddit my analysis of reporting times for OC HCA positive COVID-19 cases.
• 2020.07.13 I share my thoughts on Reddit about the Social Distancing Scoreboard for Orange County.
• 2020.07.03 Big swell and high tides flood Balboa Peninsula.

Past timeline events