Vincent Marcus

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About Me

Hello! When I grow up I want to be a Zamboni operator. In the meantime, I’m an IT Director with more than 20 years of experience in FinTech. I like long walks on the beach and embracing DevOps and SRE principles.

My Resume

Hot Takes

Die Hard is both a Christmas film and a reboot of Alien, told from the perspective of the Xenomorph.
Dragons, with six limbs, the ability to shoot explosive chemicals (bombardier beetle), and an exoskeleton, are more closely related to insects than lizards.
The Truman Show was a prequel to The Matrix.
I didn’t ask how big the room is. I cast fireball.

Things I Am Terrible At

Making coffee (I can drink it like a pro, though)
Remembering names (sorry, it’s not personal)
Keeping plants alive

Popular posts

Solar Meshtastic

I recently built a solar-powered Meshtastic node using a Heltec v3. The aim was to create a self-sustaining node that could operate without external power sources.

solar meshtastic lora

Followup Action Items

I discovered a helpful tip today: searching for “followup: action items” in Google Drive will display all documents shared with you that have tasks assigned to you.

tips google-drive

Multi-Dimensional Pandas

This notebook aims to create a Pandas DataFrame containing multiple values in its fields and then query them as if the rows have a many-to-one relationship.

python pandas parquet

Plotting Satellites

This discussion about the recent drop in altitude of the latest Starlink satellite generation is interesting. It piqued my interest in the available data and the process of plotting it.