Every 6 months to a year, I like to write a post that reflects back on what I’ve learned, where I plan on heading, and how that compares to my original plan. Without further ado, time to look at what’s happened. Goals more app development more open source libraries more languages (elixir, go) more youtube […]
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Stardew Valley took the gaming community by a storm. A lone developer that streamed his efforts released the game and within the day, it was THE game to play. I bought a copy and I usually don’t like games like these, and every gamer I know knows what Stardew Valley is. It’s hailed as the […]
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I’m a huge fan of Redux. It’s super simple and its simplicity is what won over the hearts of many. On top of that simple architecture, we started to build more complex tools in order to help us do more complex things. From Redux Sagas, to various action creator libraries, and reducer managers. Paradux is […]
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A year or so ago, I wrote a piece of fiction called Reccr. Reccr was supposed to be an AI-driven recommendation engine that filtered life around you and used any and all data about you to refine that filter. We already see a rise of that behavior: Facebook’s “top posts” and “recommended” articles, Twitter’s “while […]
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Another year has gone by and so, I’m writing another year-in-review article. As always, it’s been pretty crazy for me. From expecting a second child, to using an iPhone. I wanted to share my thoughts and some of my journey. I feel like doing this kind of a retrospective as well as a “goal setting” […]
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In 2015, I joined a startup called Landdox. I was the first employee. In fact, I joined Landdox before it officially became a company. Since then, the application has grown from an idea designed in Sketch by the founder to a fruitful large application with a customer base. It has been an intense nearly 2 […]
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The year 2015 has been a pretty crazy year for me. I feel like I say that every year but this year, I actually have tangible proof. In one fell swoop, I moved to another state, bought a house, and had a kid. But you probably didn’t come to read this article about my personal […]
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So…my plan for these couple of weeks was to start learning NativeScript or ReactNative. Well, it turns out that neither one of those options work for me. For one, ReactNative seems to work solely on OSX. I only have a Windows machine and a low-power Arch machine. So that’s out of the question. Second, I […]
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One of the big struggles of being a developer is often just figuring out “what to do next”. There is a vast network of options for a developer where one can dig deeper into their current knowledge, they can move forward, or they can move sideways and in all kinds of ways. But at all […]
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I’m a senior web developer at a startup in Houston and I have a confession to make. It’s a confession rarely any developer I’ve seen makes. Web development is not my passion Every interview I’ve gone to and every interview I’ve conducted or been a part of had some kind of a note about “passion” […]
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