Search Results: love
the blind side of seniority
I was raised by a father who loved underdogs. Kelly's Heroes and the stories of the Black Sheep squadron , were some of his favorites to watch and tell. These were stories of outcasts, thrown… [more]
That’s what heroes do
…the fire escape to its roof. The cold metal bit into my ungloved hands. The sun was rising gently above the river behind me. Its light spreading warmth and happiness. I could hear the distant sounds… [more]
Siblings
…with the ways my siblings treat each other? How do I love my enemies? How do I love those who hate? How do I care for those who are hated? How do I protect those who need protection? How should it… [more]
Pains & Aches
…dark My Lord, My God, has run to me Has enfolded me in His love Has born up my weight And encircled my darkest corners [more]
Moment Mori
…The noise of my kids Not worldly acclaim or fame To be loved by them Sometimes I forget As urgency screams loud And wants and dreams Crowd out real needs To be loved, to be theirs, to be there I went… [more]
Meet with me!
Come meet with me about software engineering things, career things, business things, or bike things. If the calendar below doesn't work, it doesn't seem to love mobile devices, go here instead [more]
Book Review-Stranger in a strange land
…from it that went into Arrival, which is a movie I love, but the level of exposition takes some really interesting ideas, about language, and how we observe the world, what it means to be human, and… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…core thesis of the novel to me at least, and as a youth I loved that message. It's been with me ever since. Within it's pages we have several different archetypes of leaders. There are… [more]
Book Review-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
…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-A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
…human. We have to trust others, and be trusted. We have to love others and be loved. This is my favorite of the books that I have read so far this year, and will likely be one that I return to in the… [more]
10 Valentines
Love stole quietly Into the toil of our creations Forging eternal bonds That vows cemented And homes sheltered Then children came through joy and pain New worries stole our sleep Occupied our thoughts… [more]
New Literature Section Added
…is a place to do that here. Honestly some of those nanos I love, and others are best left out of whatever corpus of writing I leave behind to my ancestors. But for now they are all there. I'll be… [more]
Book Review-Road to Valor
…Valor" by Aili McConnon & Andres McConnon I have love cycling, a fact you should be aware of if you intend to stick around here. Coupled with my love for history, as evident from my college… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…I know little about quasicrystals, but I love how the learned context of long term interactions allowed someone to better understand what a great scientist was saying to them. How many of our… [more]
Lumio UtahJS Conf 2022
…Sr. Software Engineer We're looking for engineers who love building software, and work well in remote teams. Android Engineer If you're interested in building things in Kotlin for native… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…Harari A fascinating read, read it because our CEO really loves it. Atomic Habits - James Clear Good early year read and companion to Essentialism. Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline This is a popcorn… [more]
Encourage teams to take risks
…work we can identify what those guardrails should be. I love using RFCs(Request For Comments) for large features and new services because they provide opportunity for team members to grow with minimal… [more]
2020: A year
…impact on me as a leader, husband, father, and person. Love this book. Winnie The Pooh - A. A. Milne It is Winnie The Pooh! Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone - J. K. Rowling Nothing to really add… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…Neo4j, which has an excellent local development story, a lovely web based UI for visualizing your data and CYPHER, which is a pretty easy to grasp graph language. All great marks in its favor.… [more]
Direct Feedback
…Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy; — Doctrine & Covenants 121:43 The individual leading the… [more]
Making the world more beautiful
…shaped by the environment that surrounds us. I’d love to say architecture, the thing that defines our environments, but good architecture is inaccessible to the majority people. But if we can… [more]
design and the internet as ephemera
…out brochure sites for marketing campaigns. Manifestos, love letters, political discourse, these all now live on the internet instead of the printed ephemera that they occupied since the printing… [more]
The right Tools for the right job
…chops to do well at these things already have jobs they love. They’re just in it to snag some $$$ and a shirt. But man it is fun to have quick computationally intense problems to work every once… [more]
First Impressions: Redux/Flow
…now for a new project I just switched to at work. First, I love the theoretical idea of redux. It’s great and founded on excellent CS principles. Second, I am not a fan of types in my untyped… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…out of the deal as well as a paycheck. Last, I would love to see the bootcamp model radically shift. Right now they are pumping entry level developers into an industry that wants Senior Developers. An… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…language. Let’s get this out of the way right now. I love Io . It’s amazing. The syntax is elegant and clean and incredibly extensible. You can pretty much rewrite Io to be whatever you… [more]
Quote: How Fiction Ruined Love
"Films like When Harry Met Sally . . . (1989) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) are typical in centering the action entirely on the run-up to the start of a relationship. But for most of us, our… [more]
mourning
…make it about being inclusive, and expunging hate through love. Let’s make it about the people who have been so tragically killed, whose lives were cut short. Let’s make it about… [more]
2015: in review
…js. Changing jobs to Instructure has been fantastic. I love working there and am working with some of the smartest people I have ever met. On a more personal note I became a father to a beautiful… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
…And that, even more than his talent, is why cycling fans love him. Finding the balance between confidence and elimination of ego is hard, and will take effort on our parts. It is both deeply personal… [more]
Thin air rushed past the train, whispering like…
Thin air rushed past the train, whispering like a thousand lovers. I turned over in my bunk and tried to forget where I was going. [more]
11
…and knowing this was an attack. My younger brother and I loved planes and knew immediately that a large passenger plane had been piloted into the towers. We recognized the tail paint. For me the scope… [more]