Reading Time: 12 minutesThis here is a friendly introduction to linguistics for programmers. There are many ways to improve our programming skills: watching videos, reading articles, hackathons, and doing code competitions. But there’s another way that gives us less time in front of … Continue reading
Category: Life and Arts
Let’s get offensive! Religion and politics are on like Donkey Kong. Oh, and maybe I’ll talk about music, too.
A Rant about Front-end Development
Reading Time: 14 minutesI am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn’t about you personally. It’s about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. … Continue reading
(Why) Writing (well) is really hard
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn 2023 where servers are cheap and platforms are free, it’s ridiculously easy for anyone to set up a blog and start flinging words at the web. You can become a “blogger” in the time it takes for Starbucks to … Continue reading
The Law of Screen Shares
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s 2021. We’re somewhere between one and thirteen years into the pandemic. Time isn’t really relevant any more, but what is relevant is what the hell is going on in your Zoom / Slack / Teams / Skype / Google … Continue reading
A Rant about Enterprise Software
Reading Time: 7 minutesI usually write about front-end things or CMS things or node.js things. Sometimes a little of all three. This is about all of those things at once. And it’s about how I think that, sometimes, enterprises are fucking dumb. Note: … Continue reading
The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven … Continue reading
2019: A Year in Review
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis has been the craziest year since I’ve begun blogging. Which is why I hardly blogged. Let’s start at the beginning: January For the sixth year in a row, I was awarded SDL MVP. I was surprised. It’s wild to … Continue reading
2018: A year in review
Reading Time: 4 minutesOh man, 2018 has been a wild ride. With less than an hour left on the clock, I’m going to do my best to sum up a year worth of professional and personal experiences.
2016: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s that time of year again; the time of the year when the year ends. Sure, I could reflect on it, like I did for 2014. But, ehh, I’ve done that in years-passed. This time, I’d like to rate it. … Continue reading
I made a music
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s been a very, very long time since i just sat down with a guitar and jammed for an evening. Last night I started with a mandolin, then switched to banjo, and then ended up on a guitar. I decided … Continue reading