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• Progress Reports

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.

• productivity
• workflow
• principles

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.

• Productivity
• Workflow
• Efficiency Hacks

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.

• tutorials
• javascript

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.

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.

• javascript
• puzzles

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.

• Progress Reports

Weekly Awesome Report #1

A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week of January 4th, 2019.

• ally

Principles of an Ally

As many people are aware of, there is a big movement to support underrepresented groups in order to help their voices be heard and encourage more diversity in the community. That said, I have noticed that there are many people who mean well in their attempts to be "allies" and often end up with the opposite result.

Beyond Treating the Symptoms

I recently had a chat with Chris that gave me pause as far as how I approach problem solving. It's not that what I was doing was wrong, but perhaps there is an opportunity for taking it to the next level.

• Retrospective

2018 Retrospective

A little late to the party, but not too late to reflect on 2018 and everything that has happened.