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Oberrieder Dog Park
The happiest place on earth Latitude 33° 58' 18.48" Longitude -119° 34' 45.80" Oberrieder Dog Park is a large, partially shaded woodchip covered enclosure for dogs and humans to relax and enjoy the company of other dogs (and humans). It is next to a beautiful walking path along the oberreider wetlands with views of the bluffs under LMU. This path easily connects to the Bluff Creek Trail for the back half of a 4.5 mile loop.
Ballona Wetlands
Ecological Preserve Latitude 33° 57' 56.16" Longitude -119° 33' 38.52" Ballona contains a complex mosaic of habitats defined mainly by hydrology, including wetland habitats, such as brackish and freshwater marshes, seasonally flooded freshwater wetlands, salt pans, riparian and upland habitats, like coastal sage scrub and sand dunes. Many wildlife species, especially birds, utilize more than one habitat type – thus the juxtaposition of these habitats next to one another, also known as heterogeneity, which is important for biodiversity.
Ballona Creek Bike Path
Part of Park to Playa Trail Latitude 33° 57' 56.02" Longitude 0° 00' 00.00" The Ballona Creek Bike Path parallels Ballona Creek while connecting the Pacific Ocean at Marina Del Rey with Culver City. The trail connects with a beach path that continues south to Redondo Beach while at the north, Dusquesne Avenue connects the bike path with the eastern portions of the Park to Playa Trail.
Jet Pets
Private dog friendly open space Latitude 33° 57' 27.00" Longitude -119° 33' 57.60" Jet Pets is an animal transportation company located in Playa Del Rey very close to LAX. They have a large field on their property that is fenced in and they keep it open most days and allow you to walk your dog there.
Westchester, Playa Del Rey, and Playa Vista Hiking Guide
Great hiking near LAX This part of Los Angeles has a lot of surprisingly remote feeling hikes. Located just north of LAX these three neighborhoods have a beach, the second largest open space in Los Angeles (ballona wetlands), and a bluff side hiking trail with expansive city, mountain and ocean views.
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Hiking
Ben and Rhys on Bishop Peak Maps, Guides and Logs One of my greatest joys is being outdoors in a wide open space with nothing made by man in sight. At times, I do have to come back to reality, and occasionally when I do, I will share routes, guides, maps, and from time to time, gear recommendations.
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Ironcove Solutions Orchestration Engine
Workforce Onboarding: A Case Study of Ironcove Solutions’ Orchestration Engine I was hired by Ironcove Solutions to lead product development for a new application they were developing called the Orchestration Engine, an application designed to streamline workforce onboarding processes. We collaborated closely with the team from Ironcove Solutions to bring their vision to life.
The Ryder Theme for Hugo
In honor of this old guy Introducing the Ryder theme, a theme for the hugo static website generator. This is an open-source Hugo theme boasting Tailwind CSS, FontAwesome integration, and customizable features. Perfect for beginners and seasoned developers alike, kickstart your website with this versatile theme.
Tunnel Localhost Server Through Cloudflare
A tunnel to your desktop
This is something I have done in the past and it usually involved pretty in-depth knowledge of the shell and networking, but now there is a free service that makes it oh-so-easy to spin up a tunnel with a public human readable domain name for temporary viewing of your local network development environment on the internet.
Pick a Squares Game
I created a pick-a-squares game template, aka the Super Bowl squares. It is still a work in progress, but I hope to have it snazzy in time for next year. Take a look at the template.
Project Goals Ability to enter people into squares Generate random score rows with animated flourish Presentation mode for big screen action with controller to enter periodic scores Calculate payouts based on price of a square Project Timeline Launch in time for SB LIX success Pick a Square: Head on over to the project page
Pick a Square Game
Pick a Square, any Square! Only $n a square! Step right up folks and get your lucky square.
This was kind of a challenge from a friend of mine. He wanted squares for an event that was a website - html, not an image, that could be used on a big screen at a venue AND printed out on a poster OR standard paper all in one url, just works for all of those.