Search Results: OO

the blind side of seniority

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…to build unbeatable teams. Because of that, I have always looked at building teams as finding the right mix of strengths and weaknesses. I suppose we could get esoteric here and consider the idea that… [more]

a great work

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…is given the privilege of doing such a work. – Theodore Roosevelt (Vice Presidential inauguration) [more]

What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?

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…it does better. Some of it does worse. Because you you smoothed the differences away before you made the decision, you never really find out which parts are which. You never find the best that any one… [more]

What Do Future Engineers Look Like?

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…Blog and is republished here for posterity. What do you look for in an engineer when that engineer is not the one writing most of the code? That question sent us back to our hiring rubric early, as we… [more]

The dark bricks walls marked the entrance to…

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…an underworld. I brushed against a dark figure whose hoody covered his eyes. Anonymity was always the rule. The handles of the bag dropped heavily into my hand and the muffled clunk of metal striking… [more]

That’s what heroes do

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They say I looked like a rag doll, twisting and spinning through the air, bending in ways no human being should or could. They say the sight of my body in front of the blossom of fire was mortifying… [more]

My Name is Ed

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…whole fence-building thing just isn’t working for me. My tool belt keeps jabbing me in the stomach, my hat was either too tight or the wind blows it off. I think you get the point. I clenched my jaw… [more]

Safe Homes

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My blood runs cold When this Nation's Hearts turn off For My ancestors came, through blood, and tears, To this land Driven by oppressors Who thought their cause just, and right My people fled death,… [more]

Like Cain

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…Was taken by those Who sought for power Not for the good of Fellow people I weep to remember children Dashed Parents murdered As their neighbors Looked on Feeling Ashamed, perhaps Feeling Justified,… [more]

Siblings

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…person slowing on the on ramp, And the child in the dump looking for food, And the woman sleeping under the bridge, And the teenager behind bars for their choices, And the people owned by my… [more]

A New Noise

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…like the Song of birds as they sing Each others songs in woods I can only curiously observe Until they take wing I think it is a bearing Not a direction, but one that spins perhaps my front wheel is… [more]

Copper Moon

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I saw the moon tonight Low and thin A slice of copper bent Around an unseen form My breathe caught at its beauty At the passing phase Of size and shape and color That would not last It slipped quietly… [more]

I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.

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I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe [more]

lab

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…letter size page of paper for instance. qr codes a simple tool for recording the contents of a container in a qr code you can print and place on them. No DB. No storage, it's all in the QR code.… [more]

Kid's Birthdays

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…recognition And amazement Pressing in Until There is no room left To open Presents [more]

Spotify Archivist

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…a few more prompts and revisions it produced a workable tool, with env var handling, a mostly good readme, and some code that worked for getting a token for the Spotify api. From a functional… [more]

the megaphone

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…responsibility. Megaphones Suck the Other Ideas Out of a Room This doesn't have to be a literal room. It could be a space created by an email chain, a Slack channel, a Zoom meeting, or a phone… [more]

Team! A Module For Teams!

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…To make my life easier in the future, and maybe yours, I took those thoughts and produced this template repo . It gives us a nice central place to keep information, self publishes a private module,… [more]

The Hunt Begins

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…So I am dropping some thoughts and links here. Why am I looking for a new role? The company that I was at (Lumio) has ended in bankruptcy which puts me out of work. I had a fantastic team, and was… [more]

help the person next to you

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…an indication of their strength, the kids covered in tattoos announcing to the world how tough they are, the preening leaders who don’t want to get dirty, and the look-at-me former athletes who have… [more]

Whimpers and Bangs

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…sun? The whimpers of hopes Now gone Uttered in quiet rooms The murmurs of Court room conversations And judge's pondered rulings? We mourn the loss Shocked by unseen endings That arrive in quiet… [more]

Book Report - Rilke's Book of Hours

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…I wasn't sure were to start and so I started with the Book of Hours. It was beautiful. Rilke wrestles with his relationship with God, and others, but mostly with God. We all have to wrestle with… [more]

craving/yearning

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…peaceful desires Drove me into the simple embrace of the woods. When solace was my one desire. I yearn for the cravings of a younger time When the body's needs rang loudly in my ears. When hungers… [more]

Bathroom Stalls

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Sometimes Victory Is a clean bathroom stall. Not needing to stare At someone else’s crap While you deal with your own. No one thinks: That sounds lonely. But maybe it is. Never sensing the rotten… [more]

Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip

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…This is the intro... nothing to see here... moving along. Too many team leads are just thrown into leadership without the support the need. And they need a lot of support as they step into that role.… [more]

Last Lectures

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…for all engineers who leave the company, and it’s been a good way to express our appreciation and also normalize shifting staffing. The setup is pretty simple, each person is given an hour to talk… [more]

Book Review-How to Survive in a Science Fictional Universe

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…If it makes you feel intrigued then you might enjoy this book. If not, then, maybe not. I could say more about how I thought it was going to be a fun, sci-fi, time travel, story, and then it is. But… [more]

Book Review-Stranger in a strange land

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…strange land is a sci-fi classic. It was the first sci-fi book to be a New York Times Book Review best seller. It won the Hugo in 1962. But how does it hold up? It feels like a book I should like, but… [more]

What Makes a Team Lead Great?

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…barriers to further progress.” The class supervisor looked at me as if I had three heads, but I knew he wasn’t going to fail me. - L. David Marquet, Turn the Ship Around Ender's Game (Orson Scott… [more]

About A Bike Race

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…You forget to breathe 100 yards You rise Legs fire like boosters pushing toward space Every muscle tenses Fingers and arms pull Back strains You pull into the wind 50 yards Overtaking Inch by inch… [more]

Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software

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…planning meetings, and some team building. I am always looking to learn from different disciplines, so I thought it would make sense to impose that on them as well. Innovation is nearly always some… [more]

The infinite power of people

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This afternoon I was reading a theological book ( Jacob: a brief theological introduction by Deidre Nicole Green ) when I happened on a quick mention of power over vs power with. It sounded familiar,… [more]

Today is going to be a great day, and other mindset shifts

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…takeaway is that you use a daily affirmation of the goodness of the day to get you off to a positive start. “This tiny yet powerful habit is successful because it is simple, is positively framed, and… [more]

Cultural Homogeneity

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…Their children all learn at the same state funded pre-schools and develop the same palettes for food. It is because of this homogeneity that the French are able to have the obedient, and creative… [more]

Disjunctive Normal Form and other fine reads

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…experienced programmer than as a new learner, but it is a good place to start. On the flip side the Ruby community is way more likely to use terms like “the disjunctive normal form”. I was reading How… [more]

Book Review-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

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…that this was his very first appearance). Sure there is a good love story, even if a little overwrought. Of course the magic system is strong, and the villains are monsters. But, overall it just… [more]

Book Review-The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson

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…system and of what I means for each of us to be human. Boom, yeah that’s a big premise. But as Shia works out how to counterfeit a human soul her exploration of the complex origins of that individuals… [more]

Book Review-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller

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…by story tellers. It takes center stage for much of this book as Donald Miller discusses the power of the narratives we tell ourselves. Its role in shaping how we see ourselves, others, and the world.… [more]

10 Valentines

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…worries stole our sleep Occupied our thoughts New joys too Filled our hearts Occupied our thoughts At times our world shook We clung together Hearts knitting tighter Through far off places And… [more]

Book Review-Getting to Yes

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…and William Ury This is a quick read with some really good insights into negotiating that isn’t focused on tricks or manipulative tactics. It emphasizes the need to focus on identifying the… [more]

Book Review-Aloha Rodeo-Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West

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…the nascent cattle ranches of Hawaii. I heard about this book on NPR a few years back when it came out and finally got my ears on it this year. It was worth the wait. As a history book, I’ll note,… [more]

Book Review-The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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…some variant of Neal… Either way this was one of his books that I enjoyed. I didn’t highlight a ton, but I did find myself reflecting on life, and memory, and childhood’s big and little traumas.… [more]

Book Review-Road to Valor

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…love for history, as evident from my college degree, this book was destined to find its way into my reading list. "The Road to Valor" delves into the life of Gino Bartali, one of the great… [more]

Organizational Design Democracy And Ownership

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…Ownership is one of the things that everyone is looking for in their employees. People who take high ownership are the ones that keep things going, that tackle the hard work needed, that work extra… [more]

Human Communications Are Hard

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…reading Digital Body Language by Erica Dhawan. So far the book is good but I paused to dig into this paper that lays out some of the base research behind it (This is a habit I picked up in college,… [more]

Why weird team names make sense

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…we worked on a product named Bridge. A lot of people look at those names and think, why name teams after bridges? Why name them at all? And if you are going to name them, why not name them something… [more]

Software Engineer vs. Software Developer

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…to matter, and so it is likely that the title they choose to use will reflect aspects of their culture. To bring it back around... is there really a difference? Probably not. But Software Engineer… [more]

Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"

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…not specifically considering when writing it. Which is a good place to start this: this paper was written about academic peer review and not about code review. I personally find these to be close… [more]

Lumio UtahJS Conf 2022

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…at Lumio for a few months now (ok fine 8 months) and I am looking for more people to join our rapidly expanding team. Check out the jobs, and more information about our team below! Open Jobs Team Lead… [more]

2021: Year in Review

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…to stabilize and grow the team and get them on solid footing inside a new, much larger company. Still a lot to learn there. One thing that did come through as important though is the need to… [more]

Encourage teams to take risks

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…camper van. Part of the process is cutting a hole in the roof to install a vent fan to keep air moving and keep it cool in the summer. As you can imagine It’s a bit intimidating to take a drill… [more]

Antisemitism ends with us

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…people pay for their "crimes". These attacks took deeper and deeper root until they walked the streets of Jerusalem, having killed not only the enemy forces that stood against them, but the… [more]

2020: A year

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…being was. It's been a year. If you are here for the book reviews… feel free to jump to them. For now let's talk about other things that happened this year. Early in the year we welcomed a son… [more]

A Simple QR Code Based System for Organizing Your Boxes

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…website to do it… then I remembered that we already use Google docs for all sorts of things, maybe they would work here. Then a little more experimenting with the mobile apps, and the various… [more]

Tech Things I read in 2018

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…I’ll also toss in a some notes or thoughts about a book where it seems reasonable. Things Worth Reading First and foremost I joined the Association for Computing Machinery this year on the… [more]

Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup

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…knowledge for now. But there was seemingly no good local development story for it. Then I remembered that in the world of Graph DBs the thing that matters most is finding a match for the query… [more]

The door knob felt cool in her hand.…

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The door knob felt cool in her hand. She swung the door open and stepped inside. "Mom!" She called out noiselessly. But no movement greeted her. Patricia raced from room to room searching… [more]

As she stepped into her parents room she…

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As she stepped into her parents room she nearly tripped over Paul, the families greying Golden Retriever. He was laying on the floor sleeping as if nothing odd was going on. Paul! Right, Patricia… [more]

Her home looked like it had when she…

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Her home looked like it had when she left. The same red door. The same brick walls. Without the noises of home everything felt alien. And where were all the people? Where were her neighbors? Where was… [more]

As she raced home the darkness and the…

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As she raced home the darkness and the silence deepened. Soon not even her own breathe made a noise. Her breathing quickened. The space seemed to close around her. Panic rose in her chest pushing back… [more]

In rising desperation she sprinted to where her…

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In rising desperation she sprinted to where her scooter lay in the grass. Home. Her mother. Her mother's voice. It was all she could think of as she hopped on and started kicking toward home. The… [more]

"Hmm..." Patricia thought. Hopping from the swing she…

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…Patricia thought. Hopping from the swing she shook the chain as violently as she could. Her growing sense of dread leapt at the unexpected silence of the chain. She ran to the slide, hammering it with… [more]

As night settled on the playground, like a…

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As night settled on the playground, like a cool blanket, it muffled the sounds of the day. "That's odd" Patricia said wondering aloud at the coming silence. Was night outside one's… [more]

Quote: Simple. Correct. fast.

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…This may be difficult to do: perhaps the problem is too large, or perhaps you were actually considering the solution before considering the problem. Though difficult it may be, it is your most… [more]

Cresting the ridge revealed the barren miles that…

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…were The Scrub. Its emptiness went on forever. That was good though. I had things to think about. Things that I didn't want interrupted by idle conversation. I tapped my horse's flanks and it… [more]

There are two kinds of settlers on the…

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…creeks. The Waltons refer to creekside settlers as "too lazy to care about security". The Schmidts refer to the Waltons as "paranoid". [more]

Making the world more beautiful

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…the thing that defines our environments, but good architecture is inaccessible to the majority people. But if we can shape the furniture, the objects that occupy that space to be more beautiful and of… [more]

Vetting Information you read on the internet

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…for content accuracy that the average non-nerd (read cool person) hasn’t been exposed to. So read ahead for a quick summary of how I vet web media outlets. For anyone interested in how to… [more]

design and the internet as ephemera

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…have been drawn from this as well. Things like having the root of designfrontier.net redirect to the current article’s permenant address. Having swipe gestures for linear navigation through the… [more]

The right Tools for the right job

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…startup time is great for servers and terrible for CLI tools With the caveat of when those tools need to be really fast to win a prize. JS is my sketching language and I typically solve first there… [more]

Office Hours

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…Hack Night SLC is ramping back up I thought it would be good to try out office hours. I recognize that the fact that I can do this is a deep privilege, and that I’ve been lucky enough to have mentors… [more]

Jumping on the AMA bandwagon

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…about the design experiment that this site is. Maybe soon. Or someone could ask in the AMA :-) [more]

The pen drop from my hand toward the…

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The pen drop from my hand toward the page I was copying. My hand ached. My mind ached. I shook my head and stood, looking for rest. [more]

The rain fell on our faces as we…

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The rain fell on our faces as we danced in surprise, then joy... then stood transfixed by fear. Did we fit in this new world of rain? [more]

First Impressions: Redux/Flow

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…the new backbone. It’s awesome and has some really good ideas, but because the developer ergonomics aren’t very good it is going to get supplanted as the favored child of the JS world. The… [more]

So I got Scammed on Amazon

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…done this for a while I knew the stand I wanted, the Park Tools TS2.2. It’s solid, accurate, fast, and the industry standard for wheel building. With that in mind I was scouring amazon and ebay… [more]

monument

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…=> {}); It listens specifically for a GET request on the root route. Say that three times fast. Your handler receives a connection object that has everything you could need to handle the request.… [more]

So you Studied History and You're a Conservative... I am Sorry.

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…reveled in ripping apart the sources in a popular history book for at least one class. Mine was The Wild Frontier: Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, a… [more]

Let's talk about Boot camps

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…like The Social Network have made developing web apps cool. Creating a tech startup has become the chosen path of upward mobility. Add that to a world where the financial barriers to entry are low and… [more]

Language Drift and finding code beautiful

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…happen? Why do we care what someone else’s code looks like? Why does it matter if we are 100% correct in the way that we do things? Now, I am not saying that there aren’t reasons behind… [more]

Death to Jquery

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…easy cross browser in which ever flavor of API you choose. The power of the web as a platform is greater then it ever has been. On top of that add in data driven UI layers like React and using jQuery… [more]

Now.

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…“Everything is instant gratification and the problem is too many people have applied that instant gratification to their careers and to their lives.” — Simon Sinek watch the video Found on Swiss-Miss [more]

Being Senior Part 1- the books and data

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This is just a quick post to throw up the books I quoted from and a link to the data for anyone who attended my presentation at Utah JS Conference 2016 today. I am putting down my thoughts in a long… [more]

begin it

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…gone on long enough, it’s time I saw some action too! While you are polishing fine phrases something useful could be going on. What’s the point of harping on the proper mood? It never comes to him who… [more]

We understood what rain was. Condensation dropping back…

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We understood what rain was. Condensation dropping back to earth. But why it stopped, and why it started again, that's the mystery. [more]

Seeing and Speaking

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…oft perplexing use of design jargon in pop culture, I am looking at you HG TV, is a symptom of something similar. I am in the last breaths of a massive kitchen remodel, that has involved rebuilding… [more]

Getting Lost and Happiness

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…a daily basis. When you observe children, they are very good at this. They don’t get distracted by all those extrinsic yardsticks. They go for things that really bring them a lot of enjoyment. In my… [more]

Education, Money and Happiness

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…happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being good at whatever it is one spends one’s days doing, and having the freedom to make life decisions independently. But research into happiness… [more]

Io: the language, not the moon

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…is to run all of your Io code in Docker. There is a good docker image here: https://hub.docker.com/r/nacyot/io-io/ that I’ve been using as a base and everything works like a champ in it. If I… [more]

mourning

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…be that I want to see these changes because of The Pulse shooting. But, they likely wouldn’t have stopped it. If you need proof of that please pause and remember the ISIS attacks on Paris in a… [more]

Seven Languages

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A few weeks ago we started a book club at work and we are running through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (but we are doing it in 14 weeks instead). So far the book is fantastic but I want to get even… [more]

safe-shrinkwrap: for all your shrinkwrapping needs

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…our dev dependencies locked down. Hopefully it helps you too. [more]

estimations and theory building

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…the final implementation of a feature or API is going to look like until we have spent the time reasoning about the problem space. Usually once we have reasoned about the problem enough to know how to… [more]

reducing noise

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…crying infant, it is literally everywhere. Some of it is good noise. Some of it is distracting us from the things we want to focus on. I am doing a couple of things to reduce the number of… [more]

:hover should be dead

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…about how hard your menu would be for me if my hand shook. UX Movement has some nice images and discussion around "hover tunnels" and why they are a huge problem for users. death to hover So… [more]

2015: in review

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…to build a new node project you should definitely take a look at it. It’s fast, simple, has great boilerplate tooling, and works really well. Other Open Source projects I created this year… [more]

The late summer snow crunched gently underfoot as…

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The late summer snow crunched gently underfoot as I walked slowly forward. The smoke ahead turned to steam. They were leaving. [more]

Learning the Trade

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…ShopTalk is a recent addition to my podcast list. Fun look into the trade. Sometimes feels a little dated in its information but lots of fun. Frontside is mostly Ember focused but they have some… [more]

Details. Details. Details.

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…and I had dinner at a restaurant in Salt Lake City. The food is delicious, especially the black bean ravioli. But they got an important detail completely wrong. The detail? Their forks. The weight was… [more]

I fell off the top bunk, landing in…

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I fell off the top bunk, landing in a heap on the bucking floor panels. Alarms screamed and flashed. I needed to get off this ship [more]

Biology and CSS

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…inheritance models in existence. Enjoy it! Sure it looks like magic sometimes, but so does any sufficiently advanced technology. [more]

The woods ended abruptly, as if at war…

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The woods ended abruptly, as if at war with the houses I stood beside. Neither would give an inch. The woods were calling me again. [more]

Thoughts on Components and stuff

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…hot right now. So hot. Like all the #hotness. They are flooding twitter, bouncing off the walls of board rooms, being parroted by managers, and shot down/hyped up by developers. But what are they… [more]

Design Tools are Broken

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…about that. This is an article about how badly our design tools are failing us in user experience [UX]. Because they are, and it is hurting the quality of our user experiences. 1. Animation Animations… [more]

On To New Horizons

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"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow." - Juliet (William Shakespeare) For the last three and a half years I’ve been working for… [more]

The Problem of Over Communication

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…us filter out the important information from the flood of data that constantly streams over us. This is the first consequence of over communication. When we provide unfocused information people tune… [more]

REST vs. RPC and a mention of HATEOS

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…RPC is the “awesome” API (The Instruction booklet or maybe even kraggle …). If you haven’t seen the Lego Movie… go watch it! REST says “hey! here are the building… [more]

The rough wood brushed past my bare feet.…

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The rough wood brushed past my bare feet. The threat of splinters ever present, I sprinted harder. Faster. My heart drawing me on. [more]

I screamed at the wind and roared at…

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I screamed at the wind and roared at clouds, until exhaustion became my enemy. Chemical allies rushed through my veins, too slow. [more]

Ice penetrated his heart like a stake. Pushing…

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Ice penetrated his heart like a stake. Pushing out the warmth she left behind. Until frozen, it slipped to the floor. Broken. [more]

The breeze caught her hair drawing my eyes…

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The breeze caught her hair drawing my eyes away from the still, printed pages. I stood slowly, and my feet raced towards her. Home. [more]

The peace of the meadow was shattered by…

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The peace of the meadow was shattered by the crack of a rifle. I lay frozen on the ground. Searching as my life pooled around me. [more]

The repetitive clang of hammer on anvil is…

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The repetitive clang of hammer on anvil is somehow soothing. The vibration in my arms calming. Maybe this time the heart will last. [more]

He ran into the past like it was…

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He ran into the past like it was a brick wall. It crushed him endlessly. His hand finally found a door and he opened his future... [more]

Sunset painted the hills gold. Muting the greens…

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Sunset painted the hills gold. Muting the greens and welcoming in fall. There was food to be gathered, and holes to be dug. [more]

I clung to the wheel so tightly that…

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I clung to the wheel so tightly that it began to make my fingers go numb. The wood bit into the flesh, just a few more minutes... [more]

Rex sat there a long time, waiting for…

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Rex sat there a long time, waiting for something. Someone? I can't remember. But then he stood and walked off. No why, just action. [more]

Falling isn't so bad, in fact, it reminds…

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Falling isn't so bad, in fact, it reminds of flying when I was younger. Too bad I lost that ability years ago. This is gonna hurt. [more]

As sunrise cleared the haze of night, the…

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As sunrise cleared the haze of night, the red of my hands sent a shock through me. Blood. Mine? The still form caught me eyes. His? [more]

Line-Height... lineheight... line-height

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Consider this a Public Service Agreement: There is a bug loose in the internet. It’s a subtle bug but so far every browser I have checked has some variation of this bug. So what is this bug?… [more]

Audio and Old Androids

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…Mastery activities for seminary students, high school students enrolled in a religion class sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The project included all sorts of new ideas… [more]

Approaching CSS the OO Way

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…to how we should be approaching authoring CSS. Before we look at how SOLID applies to CSS let’s talk about the C of CSS for a second. Cascade. We’re not talking about the… [more]

Toward a More Responsive Future

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…be very simple in that case. This method opens up the door to some crazy stuff too. Like having different aspect ratios for images at different screen resolutions. Or like having all the images for a… [more]

Moving the World

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…unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or… [more]

There is a Right Way

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I grew up working with power tools. I think I was 9 the first time I used a router. As a family we were making mancala boards for christmas presents for family and friends. The noise was intense, the… [more]

Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement

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…really that kind of Short Circuit, though it is almost as cool. In javascript, as in many programming languages logical and statements short circuit if the first element isn't true. So basically if… [more]

Don't Call Me. I'll Call You. Single Request Responsive Images

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…with a non-javascript fall back. Let's take a quick look at the javascript: var resizeImages = function(){ var imgs = $('img'); var width = $(window).width(); for(var i = 0; i 1180)… [more]

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…I was 17 and getting ready for a day full of work and school. I lived in southern Austin, TX with my parents and siblings and was attending Austin Community College, studying Computer Information… [more]

Hide the Admins

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…I start scaling out my application servers. So after some googling I found several other posts on securing the railo admin. Particularrly after reading Marcos Placona’s post on doing this in… [more]

Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS

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…Railo server first so we can configure the web server as soon as we install it. SSH into your app server instance (something like ssh -i mykeyIcreated ec2-user@myec2instance.amazon.com on linux, or os… [more]

Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS

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…Railo server first so we can configure the web server as soon as we install it. SSH into your app server instance (something like ssh -i mykeyIcreated ec2-user@myec2instance.amazon.com on linux, or os… [more]

Current Projects Update

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…already have a feed. Still a little buggy but works good enough for now. Stand Resolved : A simple goal tracking application designed to give you a daily reminder of what your goals are. Mostly… [more]

Now Serving: Obsolescence

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…part of a series, “Now Serving,” that takes a look at the changes in design, and consumer culture, that are happening right now. “We have advanced technologically so far, and yet… [more]

Trust and the Box

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…who had worked in these seats decades ago. One story stood out. It was the story of a young engineer who was sitting in mission control, monitoring the electrical systems on Apollo 12. We all know the… [more]

A Tale of Two Cookies: Securing ColdFusion Session Cookies

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…that they identified was that the CFID and CFTOKEN cookies had an expiration date set too far in the future, 2040 or something like that, and that they did not have the secure flag set. So I did some… [more]