2021 - ElegantCode

29 Dec

2021

Life’s a Party: Analyzing Party Compositions for Combat – Encounters in Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition through Monte Carlo Methods

By: David Starr Category:General Post

My son, Mason Starr, is a grad student at Georgia Tech in astrophysics or something similar that I can’t understand. In any case, he recently co-wrote a final paper for his graduate-level stats class with Michael Hauge. There’s a lot of math, but keep going. There are histograms with the word “Barbarian” in them for […]

8 Aug

2021

Getting Azure API Access Token Via OAuth or MSAL

By: David Starr Category:Azure, MicrosoftTag: azure, msal, oauth:

article, we’ll look at how to do that using two different approaches. We’ll also see how to call those Azure APIs once you have your bearer token.

28 May

2021

An agile team is one that…

By: David Starr Category:AgileTag: Agile, devops:

I recently asked an open-ended question on LinkedIn. I asked people to complete the following sentence. An agile team is one that… The request got a lot of suggestions, and there are some I think particularly worth exploring. This post looks at my two favorite answers. Self-correcting Firstly, “An agile team is one that self-corrects,” […]

5 Apr

2021

Testing Azure ARM templates is easier with ARM-TTK

By: David Starr Category:General Post

Editing Azure ARM templates can be a bit monotonous and especially so when you are deploying the template after each change just to see if your changes worked. ARM-TTK (ARM Test Toolkit) is a tool designed to help make that process a bit easier. Written in PowerShell, the scripts run a set of tests against […]

8 Feb

2021

2021 PC Build List

By: David Starr Category:General Post

I haven’t built a machine in probably 15 years because laptops have been enough to function as my primary machine. While this has remained largely true, there are some high-end jobs my laptop just doesn’t have the horsepower to drive some workloads that I would like to work with. Example workloads include model training, data […]