Frameworks

Unless you are a decently sized company who can employ graphic designers and can train people inhouse on your design system, the odds are…13 January, 2020

Wordpress To Gatsby

Since the original creation of this iteration of my blog, I’ve spent time working at an agency that made WordPress websites for people, and…12 January, 2020

Trust

Trust yourself, trust your skills, trust your tools. By nature, any programmer who has worked for any decent amount of time is going to be…21 February, 2016

Mastery

The last post on this site before this one is from almost three years ago.  At the time, I was working as a temp for a web development and…15 February, 2016

Gambit

gambit_73So, we were watching Korra last night, and discusing the titles of the different episodes and excited we were by them (for me…16 December, 2014

The New Project

One of the things I’ve really enjoyed about my current assignment is that I’ve learned a lot about  new web technologies. One of the secrets…10 June, 2013

Labor Day

Today is one of those holidays that feels particularly ironic.  Everyone gets a day off, except those of us with no work days.  It almost…03 September, 2012

Unreasonable? Hope

There comes a time in the process where you become afraid of hope. This is not good place to be in the fight against the depression, and I…30 August, 2012

Stress

The stress is building up, which is part of why I’ve not posted in two days, or walked.  That’s bad, and I need to deal with it, so let’s…29 August, 2012

Recruiter Contacts

So today I have two recruiter contacts.  I call them that instead of interviews, basically because recruiters can’t hire you.  They’re just…24 August, 2012

Scheduling

So, yesterday’s post was about scheduling, and I broke my schedule yesterday (although I may make a refinement of it to allow for Wednesdays…23 August, 2012

Organizing

The first thing I need to do is get some control over what’s going on.  I think that’s a human reaction to massive change and uncertainty…21 August, 2012

And so things change

So, I started this blog as I was starting my job hunt.  I wish I could say, “And now that job hunt is done”, but it isn’t.  In fact, now it…20 August, 2012

Board: A Step Back For A Moment

In case it wasn’t obvious, I missed my goal date for the features I wanted — mainly multi-user logins, with the virtual tabletop working…02 April, 2012

Board: Logging in With Google

So, a bit behind on this which I’d hoped to have done last Wednesday, but head colds and real life wait for no one, particularly people who…26 March, 2012

Deeper into the JavaScript

In some ways this is a list of links to review again as I learn what I’m doing. First is a StackExchange post about what everyone should…22 March, 2012

Ooops I broke it

Looks like in the migration of moving here, and some time after I ran the one use of the boards for my hangout, I broke the boards that were…20 March, 2012

Boards: User Sign-on

Okay, this week we’re going to work on getting the ability to log into the board game server, as well as letting people register for new…19 March, 2012

Boards : Technology

So, let’s talk about technology. We need a back-end, something to persist state and manage stuff on the webserver end.  I’ve thought some…16 March, 2012

Breaking It Into Shape

I’m having a conversation with some people about JavaScript.  A friend of mine is a veteran C++ coder, and is and  indie game developer…15 March, 2012

Boards : Thinking About Phases

The first thing that is obvious from the description of our beginning goals for the board game project is that we’ll have players, and some…14 March, 2012

What I Want: To Help People

A few years ago, I read in Zen and the Art of Making a Living something that I had missed, and which moved me greatly.  It was something…13 March, 2012

Board Game : Goals

Well, before we can start the project, we need to talk about what it’s going to do.  I have a good idea of what I want it to do at a high…12 March, 2012

Personal Project

I’ve always been of the mind that to really learn how to do something, you need a project.  A good project is one where you can use the new…09 March, 2012

And Speaking of JavaScript

Khan Academy has decided to make JavaScript it’s introductory language. As I’ve said before, I think this makes a lot of sense.  JavaScript…08 March, 2012

What I Want : Responsibility with Trust

I’d made the transition to consultant fairly early in my career.  I worked for a company while I was in college, and then when I left, I…07 March, 2012

Accomplishments

I’ve been putting together a portfolio, which I understand I should have been doing all along.  There’s a link to it at the top of the site…06 March, 2012

What I Want : Variety And Challenge

I originally meant to post this weeks ago, but then I realized that unpacking and getting it right were both important and difficult.  I’ve…02 March, 2012

Where I Am

So, part of the purpose here is to figure out and communicate where I am, where I want to be, and how to get there.  So let’s start with the…20 January, 2012

A letter to my congresspeople.

Today I sent this to my two senators and representative in the US congress. I am a constituent and I urge you to reject the Internet…19 January, 2012

Java[Script] Online Learning

I’ve been doing the codecademy.com JavaScript classes, and following along with Code Year.  I don’t really need to know how to, say, code a…18 January, 2012

Here I Am

I’ve been online since before there was a web, but I’ve never written as me on the web before.  I come from a generation of alias users…17 January, 2012