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Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, React, jQuery, C#, ASP.NET, Go, CSS, HTML5, SQL/PSQL, Selenium, Bash, Docker/Docker Compose, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, PostUp, HubSpot automation and integration, ABBYY Vantage, Microsoft Power Automate and Power Apps.

I love consulting on projects and technical problems that people are facing, so even if you don't end up hiring me, let's at least meet and chat about what you're working on and see if there's anything I can do to help. I'm happy to offer a free initial consultation, so you've got nothing to lose but time, and I guarantee that I won't waste yours.

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

SEEKING WORK | Python, Django, Javascript, etc

Location: Kansas City, MO, USA

Remote: Preferred but open to in-person in the Kansas City Metro.

Willing to relocate: No.

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

I have over 15 years of software development experience and 10 years of solution architecture experience. I have experience architecting solutions for both AWS and GCP.

I am interested in both a full time position and freelance projects. I'm also a quick learner, so if there's a technology that I don't already have experience with I'd love the opportunity to expand my knowledge and jump in and help wherever I can.

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

Location: Kansas City, MO, USA

Remote: Preferred but open to in-person in the Kansas City Metro.

Willing to relocate: No.

Solution Architect | Full Stack Developer

Email: markransomjr <&> gmail.com

I have over 15 years of software development experience and 10 years of solution architecture experience. I have experience architecting solutions for both AWS and GCP.

Comment · 2 years ago

  Location: Kansas City, MO
  Remote: Remote, Hybrid, or On-Site
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, React, CSS, HTML5, REST, HubSpot, Salesforce/Marketing Cloud.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.ransomsoft.com/resume/
  Email: markransomjr at google's email service.

Comment · 3 years ago

I didn't buy this, I inherited it from my dad, but now that I have one, if it broke I would immediately go replace it, and that's a nice DeWALT cordless drill combo, with two batteries and a charging station. In the past I have always had cheaper cordless drills, because spending $150+ on a cordless drill seemed kinda silly, but I use this thing all the time, everywhere, for all sorts of stuff.

Comment · 8 years ago

They should have just called it (Microsoft) Code. If they can use Word, Access, and Excel as product names, surely they could get away with just calling their world-class editor "Code".

I second your recommendation, I'm a sucker for a sleek editor with a great plugin architecture.

Comment · 9 years ago

Great question, and in the end it comes down to politics and team siloing. A large corporation with a lot of projects and priorities, and no single Security person to raise the issue with. At the time I wasn't in a position to Just Do It and then tell everyone "Hey, this needed to be done, I got it done, now I need a QA resource to test it and then we need to deploy it to prod" without some backlash from multiple source (my boss, the team that owned the product, etc).

Now (and given everything that's happened in the industry in recent years) I would definitely push more, and maybe fix it on my own, but at the time I just shook my head, and sent follow-up emails every few months to try to keep visibility on the issue.

Comment · 9 years ago

I used to work for a company that had a big security hole that would allow you to log in as any user as long as you knew the user's UUID (I know, right?) I logged a ticket and raised the issue up the flagpole to let folks know that if someone slipped in some code (we ran a lot of third party javascript) to harvest UUIDs, they could fairly trivially log in as an admin and do some serious damage. The issue sat for months (MONTHS!) until finally a user complained about some non-https content being loaded on our login page, which sparked a whole security review, and gave me an opportunity to bring additional attention to my ticket, which finally got fixed.

This kind of crap is out there, and people don't give it the attention it deserves until they get bitten in the ass. Thankfully, my company didn't get bitten, but if we had, it could have been very bad, and the fact that the issue was called to people's attention and they didn't do anything about it would have made it look that much worse.

Django gives you a ton out of the box, with lots of sane defaults, but it still allows you to override those defaults when you're ready for more complicated functionality or business rules. I like the templating language, it lets you drop a lot of dynamic functionality into existing html templates, while staying out of the way for the most part.

I think part of what I like about this idea is that the vectors inside a larger vector would be the same across larger vectors, for example the very bottom left corner vector is "apple" across all larger vectors. Eventually perhaps we would all even start to recognize vector locations. What if each vector name was even categorized, so you knew that fruits were in the bottom left area of a block, and sports names (i.e. baseball, basketball, etc) are in the top right area of a vector.

Silly, maybe, but I like the idea of people having a general idea of what area something is in based solely off word usage.

So if my front door is steers.pasta.kicks and the end of of my driveway is effort.army.blur, there's really no rhyme or reason to it.

It seems like it should act more like web domains, so my city would be "park", my neighborhood would be "lung" and finally down to my street and house being one of the small blocks inside that. Honestly, making it 4 words seems like you could really break it down in a logical way.