Spencer P Young

Software Consultant and Trainer

Spencer Young is an avid software engineer and architect possessing a strong, well-rounded industry background developed with more than a decade of working with large scale enterprises and a lifelong passion for technology and learning.

Experience Areas

Python
Cloud Architecture
Distributed Systems
Consensus Algorithms
DevOps, CI/CD, and Site Reliability
Web Development
Security
Networking

Python
Security
HTML5
CSS

Posts

Spencer Young

Aug 6, 2020 6 min read

Sending a Fax with Python; Using DLLs/COM objects

As engineers, we know that we should avoid reinventing the wheel. When we can, we want to use libraries written by other people to do some heavy-lifting for us. In this post, I’m going to share with you some things I learned on how to leverage existing libraries from DLLs (or any other files with COM type information like TLB or OCX files). Specifically, I’ll share some things I learned on my journey to figure out how to use Python to send a fax.

Spencer Young

Nov 27, 2018 1 min read

AutoHotkey, Python style

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a popular automation scripting language. Years ago, this was part of my automation toolbelt. Whether it was for making video game bots or business productivity. Fast-forward to this month. I came across a usecase where AHK would fit nicely. As I began writing some scripts, I lamented over the syntax and peculiar nature of matching modes, directives. I just wished I could have been writing the solution in Python.

Spencer Young

Sep 25, 2016 4 min read

Aliases in Amazon Workmail

Update: As of September 2017, AWS now officially supports sending emails as an alias Email communication is a critical part of any business. Amazon Workmail provides a convenient managed mail server to power your organization. Amazon Workmail also supports aliases for your users. This means you can setup aliases like support@example.com and sales@example.com to be delivered to your inbox john.smith@example.com . However, anyone wishing to send email as one of their aliases may find this is quite as easy to accomplish as it was to setup your email alias.