Weekly Awesome Report #3
A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week leading up to January 18th, 2019.
Read more →Year
2019
24 posts from 2019.
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DevAdvent 2018 Retrospective
Before it gets too far into 2019, I wanted to write my thoughts on how my DevAdvent experience in 2018 was.
Read more →Sunday Studies #2
When it comes to looping through arrays and performing a function on each item, there are three common methods that you should be familiar with: for, forEach and map. For this week, we are going to practice using these in order to gain familiarity with each one and when one is better to use than another.
Read more →Saturday Solutions #1
Today I will be breaking down different approaches for solving the code challenge in Sunday Studies #1. I will start with using fundamental JavaScript skills and then build up to more modern techniques like ES6.
Read more →Weekly Awesome Report #2
A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week leading up to January 11th, 2019.
Read more →The 25/75 Rule
I recently came across an article written by Jared Spool called Good, Bads, and Dailies: Lessons for Conducting Great Critiques which covers the concepts of what makes reviews / critiques good or bad. One thing that stuck out to me in particular was his discussion around Pixar's use of a meeting called Dailies and the 25-75 rule that governed the dailies.
Read more →The Hyper Key
For someone like me who is obsessed with being incredibly fast with accomplishing simple tasks, I have come to learn that the quickest way to get anything done is to reduce the number of steps required it takes to accomplish the task.
Read more →The Spread Operator
The spread operator is a shorthand technique introduced in ECMAScript 2015 to solve a common problem: Taking the items within an iterable and distributing them within another iterable.
Read more →When Is It Enough?
My thoughts on the concept of whether there is ever a time when learning is enough. We will examine common responses along with what I think is the correct answer to this question.
Read more →Sunday Studies #1
Welcome to the first edition of Sunday Studies! Every week I'll be releasing a code challenge for you to solve for the week. The solution will be posted on Saturdays so you can see how I worked through the problem.
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