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 →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 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 →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 →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.
Read more →A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week of January 4th, 2019.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →A little late to the party, but not too late to reflect on 2018 and everything that has happened.
Read more →You ever have that nightmare where you sign up for a class that you forget to drop out of and end up needing to take the final at the end of the semester? Well, this one doesn't fall too far from the tree.
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