Cataloging Automation at the National Building Arts Center

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National Building Arts Center Publication Archive Background: What is the NBAC? This past summer I worked as an intern at the National Building Arts Center, an archive and study center in St. Louis that holds the largest collection of built environment artifacts in the United States. Alongside these artifacts, NBAC maintains a large archive and library […]

I Suspected Jira Was Burning My AI Tokens. The Data Told a More Complicated Story

Over the past few months, I had watched the token usage in my AI development workflow creep upward. Some of that was expected. The codebase was growing, my agents had more instructions, and I was asking them to handle longer tasks. Still, the increase was large enough that I started examining every source of context. […]

Terraform and configuration validation

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The infrastructure-as-code (IaC) programming language Terraform is an amazing tool in cloud engineering, primarily for its declarative and cloud-agnostic nature. It provides cloud provisioning and maintenance capabilities that scale with your objectives, from local experimentation to full-on production development. This article will highlight Terraform’s ability to validate variables when referencing the state file, before and […]