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A longtime technologist opining on various topics.

I plan to share lessons learned from my 28-year career in IT and my parallel career as a freelance web developer. In the meantime, you’ll find random technical stuff and project updates.

Fantasy novel in progr|

Torching midnight oil (not the band)

Level 99 nerdery for nonprofits.

I don’t always freelance, but when I do, I like to work with nonprofits. Somewhere along the way, my deep Do-Good Wiring™ tangled with my technical and entrepreneurial root systems, resulting in a perpetual itch to help organizations that help people. Fancher Black is my metaphorical telescopic back scratcher.

Fantasy novel in progr|

You down with MIT?

RedFactor’s apps are now open source.

The once commercially-available Splunk apps created by the RedFactor team have been made free and open: dvvy Chargeback, rqst Data Ops, and kvkit KV Store Toolkit. Me and my team spent a huge amount of time on these apps and I’d love to see them help as many Splunk customers as possible. Please take, use, and contribute!

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