tristanpoulsen 
If you’re in need of a business grade switch, my recommendation as of recent, has been this Cisco Business switch. My favorite aspect is there’s no need to pay for a recurring cloud license with this switch. This makes it perfect for smaller businesses with less than 10 offices or stations (each with a VOIP … Read more
Today I built a python script that takes a csv file with a list of emails and using the Gmail API, moves the emails to the corresponding folder I’d like to move them to. Then it archives them. Now obviously you can do this in Gmail with an automated filter for incoming emails, so the … Read more
TFP new vs. Old I decided to add some additions to this portfolio website like the “App Ecosystems I Work With” & I updated my personal logo – honestly it looks 300% better than the previous one I made over 10 years ago.. My graphic design skills have gotten better even though I’m more analytical … Read more
I was talking with a client of mine and he mentioned a few things that one can do to help prevent myself from getting sick after flying on an airplane – being jetlagged of course. I’m making this post mostly for my own collection so I can look back and read the quick remedies I’ve … Read more
I’ve always tried to have the most secure mindset when it comes to my passwords. Unfortunately with the news of the recent LastPass hacks, I’ve had to migrate away from it (over a year ago at this point) but now with the more serious breach that occurred, I decided to update ALL of my passwords, … Read more
I’ve recently had an issue with a pfsense firewall version 2.6.0 that caused users on multiple devices to experience “connection timed out” for google.com and gmail. Youtube and other websites like bing were working fine. Ping google results in timed out, and traceroute wasn’t working either. I added google, Gmail, and youtube to the whitelist, … Read more
Ultimate Smart Apartment – On A Budget If you’re looking into how to automate and set up a smart home/apartment, these are my recommendations based on what I’ve bought and what I think would work great in any smart apartment setup. For software, I’m currently using the Smart Life App in tandem with Alexa to … Read more
I’m always thinking of new ideas, and how to solve problems that I see in everyday life. I also help manage and co-own a painting company here in Denver Colorado, so I’m daily ordering materials for projects and I had a thought… What if you had an online superstore/marketplace of construction product providers to provide … Read more
So I had an idea the other day. What if you used the processing power of GPU’s/ASICs within the blockchain to create both a Cryptocurrency as well as a machine learning algorithm that will eventually train a fork of the chain to be used for humanity’s problem-solving using AI + neural network. Providing, both (potential) … Read more