Hi, I’m Shawn

I am a Canadian technology entrepreneur currently living outside Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.  I am one half of North & South Nomads, run Sanswork where we provide technology and tender writing services and am also a co-founder of Maplegum Ventures and YellowCAKE Media.

I love programming in a lot of languages and frameworks though I am currently focused on Elixir, Phoenix, Javascript, and React.

After trying repeatedly to consistently blog and failing I’ve decided to use this blog as a personal book club.  I have a long backlog of technical books to read so I’ll be posting notes and projects and code as I go.

Current Backlog(in no order)

• Think Stats
• Practical Statistics for Data Scientists
• Data Science from Scratch
• Fundamentals of Deep Learning
• CODE
• The Elements of Computing Systems
• Hands on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow
• SICP
• Book of Proof
• The Algorithm Design Manual
• Purely Functional Data Structures
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers
• Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang and Elixir
• Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5
• The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit
• The Data Warehouse Toolkit
• The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

As you can see I have a lot of work to do!