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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As a developer, it can be difficult to separate oneself from their code. Our code, in reality, is seen as a representation of our abilities. The resulting product is then a representation of our code and ourselves as well. We pride ourselves on what we write and feel ashamed when the code we put out […]
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About a month ago, I started my new job at a fresh startup. It’s self-funded but with a cool idea that addresses a particular industry’s needs. I’d like to talk about my experience but without expressly talking about the product itself, so for now, visualize it as a super-customized version of Dropbox for a particular […]
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Programming myths permeate the developer world as much as urban myths spread through high school. The non-tech media believes it whole-heartedly, young developers suspect something but stay in denial, and older developers know better, most of the time, until they start a whole new myth that serves them. Or a combination of the reactions may […]
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Developer Burnouts is a chapter from my upcoming book, Web Developer Dot Meta. Subscribe to my mailing list to get more information. Burning out is an issue that all developers face. And younger developers are often not aware of. To put it simply, a burnout is a state where one is overly fatigued by continued […]
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Handling Critique is a chapter from my upcoming book, Web Developer Dot Meta. Subscribe to my mailing list to get more information. I like to say that people that criticize you unconstructively are people that are not happy. And with that, I’d like to talk about handling critique from your peers. Just like artists that […]
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