Weekly Progress Report #1
Prologue I have recently taken an interest in trying to utilizing the OKRs on my personal life. It has been a rather complex journey of…
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Starting My Design Journey
As most frontend developers are aware, one of the most frustrating aspects of our job is that we are often evaluated based on the quality of…
Read More >Boring Solutions
Whelp. Here I am again. This must be like the tenth attempt of mine to get my coding blog up and running. And while that may be discouraging…
Read More >Why I Still Use Sass
Background Recently I've been going back and forth on whether or not it was time for me to return to pure CSS land. With my recent foray in…
Read More >Review: CSS Grid with Wes Bos
As most of you know, Wes Bos is responsible for creating some of the best courses out there on popular development topics (that are…
Read More >Be a Builder, Not a Barrier
Over the past few years, I’ve had the chance to talk with multiple designers about their work and what their environment is like. And…
Read More >Take Inspiration from Another Source
I had a friend who recommended that I watch “Your Name” a while back. So I went ahead and purchased the blu-ray not knowing whether or not I…
Read More >The Impermanent Nature of Our Work
Over this past weekend, I had the incredible opportunity of visiting Harry Potter world in Orlando, Florida for the first time! For those…
Read More >The Power of Repetition
Now that I had solved the Rubik's cube, one would think that I would never touch a Rubik's cube again. However, if my accomplishment was…
Read More >Underestimating Reverse Engineering
When I first encountered my first Rubik's cube, I was fascinated by the numerous colors and patterns. Like many others, the fact that was a…
Read More >I Can Solve a Rubik's Cube!
For my entire life, I've always envied those who could solve a Rubik's cube. Not only did I have a level of respect for what I thought would…
Read More >Why I Switched from Sublime to VS Code
Let me begin by stating that I have a been a hardcore Sublime Text user for the past 3 years. Not only did I spend $80 on a full license…
Read More >A Single Obsession
For those who don't know me, I'm a compulsive learner. I enjoy ramping up on new topics and since my interests are rather diverse, this…
Read More >My Thoughts on "Full Stack"
Being a full-stack developer is all the craze right now. It seems like all bootcamps with web developer programs are selling people on the…
Read More >So I Converted to Tabs...
For those who watch Silicon Valley, you might remember this hilarious scene where Richard is dating a girl who uses spaces instead of tabs…
Read More >Practicing the Act of Creating
With November being National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I thought it would be appropriate to follow a similar theme and to simply…
Read More >Three Steps Forward. Two Steps Back
With the start of a new month, I've decided that it's time to be introspective on my past behavior and patterns in an effort to figure out…
Read More >You Can Be Courageous or Comfortable, You Can't Be Both
Introduction As most people are aware, imposter syndrome and other insecurities constantly plague many of us. Unless you have your head…
Read More >The Importance of Fundamentals (No Matter How "Experienced" You Are)
As a self-taught developer, I've hit a couple of key milestones in my career: (1) managing to get a job in the field without any formal…
Read More >The Elusive Return Statement
Over the past few months, I've been taking a deep dive in ReactJS in ways I would have never anticipated. It's been a whirlwind, but the…
Read More >"Cheap" Outsourcing
I was reading my daily Quora digest this morning and the following post: "What did you do to make your software career better?" To my…
Read More >A Change in Scenery
Over these past couple of months, I have had the opportunity to work on some fun and challenging projects. And while it's been a phenomenal…
Read More >Velocity in Development
Nowadays, it is pretty much impossible to get involved with a project without hearing about "being more agile." And even though I have been…
Read More >Emerging From a Crucible
It's been a little over a month since I last wrote here. And in that time, I have challenged myself to dive headfirst into projects equipped…
Read More >Developers. Don't Get Too Comfortable
I had heard about Milton Glaser's "Ten Thing I Have Learned" essay from numerous people, but it wasn't until a recent mention on…
Read More >When Nobody is Watching
While I was taking a break today, I decided to check to see if one of my favorite choreographers Matt Steffanina had any new material up…
Read More >Do It Even If It's Ugly
I read this article by Addy Osmani a while back that was in response to the "How It Feels to Learn JavaScript in 2016" post. For those…
Read More >Just Google Translate Everything Right?
As I continue catching up on Front End Happy Hour , I came across the episode Mixed drinks and Mixed languages . The topic of discussion…
Read More >Third Time's a Charm
For those who don't know me, my name is Ben and I come to the world of coding primarily self-taught and the simple fortuitous circumstance…
Read More >Never Finished
I cannot even begin to count how many times I tried to launch this blog. Each time I sat down to do so, I would get caught up in the million…
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