About

Peter Arsenault Industries

Technical writer, technology, and tech

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About Pete

I’ve been a technical writer since 2012. I got really into programming after watching the first episode of Mr. Robot in 2019. I just loved seeing Linux and Python on TV. Before then I took some web development classes as an undergrad, where I studied English and IT.

In 2023, I got a Masters in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University. I learned a lot of valuable things. I’ll share some tutorials for the technologies I worked with here. Maybe someday this site will be worth the $43,000 I put into the university.

About this site

This site is built using the Hugo static site generator framework. It uses the Hugo Book theme. The content is hosted in a private Git repo. When I check-in code to the production branch, a continuous deployment action pushes the code live to this AWS Amplify-hosted site.

Tech and tech experience

Here are some of the technologies I have worked with and hope to work with some more:

Java, Scala, Python, R, JavaScript, Typescript, jQuery, Android (Java), Swift, Objective-C, Mendix
Windows Server, PowerShell, Active Directory, Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Progress WhatsUp Gold, RapidMiner, Oracle Warehouse Builder

Here are some other topics I have studied and learned professionally:

Agile software development, being a scrum master, project management, metrics and reporting with Jira, negotiations, eLearning courseware development, data warehousing, online teaching, video production, image processing

Here are my weaknesses (admitting is the first step):

Graphic design, branding, marketing, sales, getting caught up in the minutiae

Around the Web

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Find me on the net!

Pete-approved sites:

textfiles/ - Internet esoterica and computer history.
tsoding - The world’s greatest recreational programmer.
alvinalexander - Informative Scala tutorials.
macintoshrepository - Old Mac applications and content.
progress - My employer!
rderik - macOS programming tutorials about XPC services.