Things I wrote
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Highlights from Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
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When I started my job about 2 months ago I went through their standard Front End Developer training and in it we talked a whole bunch about modular CSS and reusable patterns, it was super awesome. But in the course of it we also talked about style guides.
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Quite a while ago I put a video that my friend Nishant recommended on his blog into my Pocket queue. It's a lecture given by John Cleese and it is wonderful, I highly recommend taking the time to watch it, it is worth the 30 minutes or so.
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For a while now I've wanted to contribute to something open source, but I really didn't know where to begin or what would be a good fit for me. So I joined Github and just kind of hung around, watching some projects that interested me, but other than that not doing too much.
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As many folks who know me or follow me on Twitter or what I write here know, JavaScript and I have long had a combative relationship. I've sought advice from so many different people on the subject that many folks are probably sick of me talking to them about it.
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Now that I've been working from home for a bit over a month at a full-time job, I've gotten into a new habit each work day that has become one of my favorite times of day. Each day after I finish work, I log off, close the computer, get Sally and we go for a walk.
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It has been one month since I started my current job. Many folks have been curious as to why after freelancing for such a short period of time I decided to go back to a full time position. I have to say, it was not at all my plans, but there were several factors that led me to this position.
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Highlights from Mindfire
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Highlights from Quiet
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So I have redone my site again. From the point of view of what you see when you look at the site, it really doesn't look like I've done much at all. The design was slightly tweaked, but really, the site looks the same. So, what did I do?
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So G and I have been trying to figure out a computing solution for a family member whose computer has come to a slow, sad death. We have batted around the idea of a tablet and have been researching if that could be enough with no other machine. The only thing it needs to do besides email and browsing the web is the ability to store photos and load them from the SD card.
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I just recently started reading the book Quiet The power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. I've only read the preface and the first chapter, but I'm already incredibly intrigued by the book.
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I've been reading about all the changes at Twitter lately with a bit of sadness and also a bit of understanding. I can see the point of view of the company as they want to own the product and profit from it, but as a geek I also see the point of view of the developers and many others who have spent countless hours to make Twitter what it is.
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I just read a fantastic article on learning to program by Bret Victor, Learnable Programming. I've spent the last few months really concentrating on learning more about programming. I've been reading books and doing exercises using both JavaScript as the language and I've dipped my toes into Python as well. I've talked about this on the blog before, my quest to become a better JavaScripter and to really understand how to program.
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I spent the past two days in an old building in SE Portland with an absolutely amazing group of people, hearing passionate people talk about doing what they love. I am still amazed that I was there and feel so lucky that I got to attend XOXO. I went into the weekend not quite sure what it was going to be like, but super excited not just for the speakers and fringe events, but excited for the attendees.