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Family movie night with Mr. Popper’s Penguins. 🎬

Movie poster for Mr. Poppers Penguins showing a man in a suit leaning over several playful penguins on ice with a city skyline behind him.
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Rummikub!

Rummikub tile game in progress on a wooden table with sets of numbered tiles arranged in runs and groups, a rack of tiles in the foreground, and the game box visible in the background.
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The top blocked domain that my Pi-Hole is protecting me from every day is api.segment.io. That isn’t a web browser thing that 1Blocker could even block. It is API calls embedded, I suspect, in iOS Apps. I love having multiple layers of surveillance blocking!

Table of top blocked domains on a Pi-Hole, led by api.segment.io with 1070 hits, followed by mobile-collector.newrelic.com with 680.
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International Women's Day 2020

We had a great event recognizing International Women’s Day at SPS Commerce. Great keynote and exercise around vulnerability and bias led by Brave New Workshop’s Margi Simmons and a wonderful panel from women leaders in #TeamSPS! Thank you Kara Boespflug, Jenny Nolan, Anna Picchetti, Nikki Riemersma, and Bre Taft.

Audience of roughly 100 people seated in white chairs facing presenters at the front of a large modern conference room with purple-lit screens. Six women panelists seated in a row at an SPS Panel event, facing an audience seated in rows, with two projection screens showing panelist headshots behind them. A woman in a plaid blazer speaks at the front of a full conference room before two purple SPS Commerce screens. Margi Simmons presents Connecting at the Speed of Laughter to a full conference room audience at SPS Commerce

See IWD 2024, 2021, 2020, 2020 @ SPS, and 2018.

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Enjoying Tina Schlieske doing solo acoustic show at the 318 Cafe in Excelsior. 🎶

Musician in white shirt playing acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone at a small indoor venue at night
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Well, that isn’t supposed to be there. 😤

Continental tire tread with a screw embedded near the edge of the tread
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We had a lot of fun at REM5VR tonight! Beat Saber was my favorite. 🎮

Indoor VR arcade with several people wearing headsets playing games across multiple pods, monitors on walls showing gameplay.
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I’m having a fun time with the Pi-Hole just to see the volume of DNS activity on my home network! Green line is total requests, blue is the number that were blocked. 🙌

Line chart showing Pi-Hole DNS queries over 24 hours with green total requests peaking near 520 and blue blocked queries staying mostly below 200.
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After the Tech Talent event today John Avenson, VP of Technology for the Minnesota Twins, took a small group on a short technology tour of Target Field. It was an awesome time! I loved hearing how the network works and how all the cabling is routed around.

Press box at Target Field with a long work counter facing floor-to-ceiling glass overlooking the empty baseball stadium, several people in business attire standing and working along the counter. Target Field baseball stadium covered in snow, with the field tarp blanketed in white and empty seats dusted with snow under a clear blue sky. Broadcast control room at Target Field with multiple monitors, keyboards, and equipment racks labeled Rack 30 through 36, with a Minnesota Twins pennant visible. Exposed equipment racks and patch panels with dense colorful wiring mounted in open bay doors on the exterior wall of Target Field.

Upon seeing this cable tray, Amy Patton blurts out “That’s beautiful” with absolutely no irony. Only in tech… 🤩🙌 (PS: I agree!) Nice job Target Field tech team!

Overhead cable tray at Target Field filled with neatly organized yellow, teal, black, orange, red, and blue cables running along the ceiling.
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MHTA Tech Talent 2020

Learned a lot this morning at the MHTA Tech Talent 2020 event! A wealth of data from Grant Riewe, Erin Olson, Sri Koneru, and Tim Welsh.

Conference room full of attendees seated at round tables facing a presenter on stage beside two projection screens showing a Minnesota Tech Workforce Survey Two speakers stand on a stage at a tech talent conference, one at a podium with a microphone, the other smiling beside them. Woman in a black dress speaking at a podium labeled Minnesota High Tech Association Tech Talent with a slide about recruiting IT talent on screen behind her Bearded man in a green sweater speaking at a glass podium on a stage at a Tech Talent conference event

The Success Stories from Minnesota Workplaces at todays MHTA Tech Talent 2020 event were very informative. It was great to hear what is working for everyone. This event is only in it’s 2nd year but is already a mainstay for the community.

Large conference room with hundreds of attendees seated at round tables facing two speakers standing at a podium and microphone Four speakers on a stage at a Minnesota High Tech Association Tech Talent event, two holding microphones, with a podium and two leather chairs behind them. Woman in yellow blouse speaks at a podium on stage at the Minnesota High Tech Association Tech Talent conference

It was a privilege to be able to share some perspective and success stories at the MHTA Tech Talent 2020 event about what we are doing at SPS Commerce to attract, retain, and develop technology talent!

Man in a dark suit speaking into a handheld microphone on a stage, with a projected slide titled SPS Commerce Solutions and Programs behind him, and an audience seated in the foreground.