2023 ITE Annual Meeting in Portland
I’m grateful to receive one of two Student Travel Scholarships from the ITE Western District. This scholarship helped fund my travel to the combined ITE Western District and International annual meetings in Portland, Oregon, in …
Cloudflare Zero Trust Gateway as an adblocker
I was recently looking for a solution to handle ad blocking at the DNS level. I wanted to use the DNS level specifically (rather than an app or browser extension or something like that) because …
Is 0pass just an Authentik instance?
I recently saw this TechCrunch article about a “Y-Combinator backed” startup called 0pass, promising to “make it easier” for organizations to adopt passwordless authentication. This, as with nearly every authentication-related startup, was pretty interesting to …
Your sign-in settings don’t meet your organization’s 2-Step Verification policy
Problem By default, new Google Workspace tenants now enforce required 2-Step Verification (2SV) for all users. Users are only given one week to enable and set up 2-Step Verification from the date of their account …
Moving Google Drive files between Workspace tenants
I recently had a challenge to tackle: Migrating account data from one Google Workspace tenant to another. I thought this would be an easy task, but unfortunately Google provides no easy method to transfer accounts …
Visiting the Sweets & Snacks Expo 2023
Every year, the National Confectioners Association, an industry group that represents candy and snacks producers, hosts an enormous conference called the Sweets & Snacks Expo, in Chicago, IL (although they’re moving to Las Vegas and …
Touring the Port of San Diego and SANDAG
Foreword: This is a longer version of my press release which was published on the website of METRANS, a transportation research partnership between the University of Southern California, California State University Long Beach, the US …
Foreword: This is a brief blurb I drafted and published for the University of Southern California’s Institute of Transportation Engineers chapter (USC ITE / ITE USC). We toured the Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s (LADOT) …
On SoCal Linux Expo (SCaLE) 20x
As the conclusion to my 3 weekend conference marathon, including the IISE Western Conference and ITE Student Leadership Summit, I attended the 20th Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 20x) in Pasadena, CA. It’s a huge …
Lessons from the ITE Student Leadership Summit
For several months, I was part of the Student Leadership Summit (SLS) planning team with USC’s chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), a professional organization for transportation planners, engineers, and enthusiasts. (I fit …