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Today I am at React Rally in SLC and after a particularly inspiring talk by Preethi Kasireddy I created an Ask Me Anything on github.

I am trying to write more and more quickly... so this is just a few quick thoughts from learning flow and redux right now for a new project I just switched to at work.

A couple of weeks ago I fell for scam in the amazon marketplace.

Over the past several years I’ve been working on a new application framework for nodejs.

This is another of my attempts to clear out my drafts folder.

I started writing this in July of 2015 and never got around to publishing it.

So the giant article I’ve been planning to write from what I learned prepping for that talk I gave on being senior a while ago has stalled.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being.

I hate javascript Class.

Yesterday I presented ’Death to jQuery’ at Pandamonium, our internal Tech Conference at Instructure, because honestly it’s time. jQuery was critical to the development of the web, it is the reason that most of us have jobs honestly.

A quick quote to tide you over until the big write up lands...

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 define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; and when they can give and receive without judgement; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship." — Brené Brown courtesy of Swiss

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being.

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days.

I was reading this wonderful article from ia and it occurred to me that jargon and seeing are related to each other.

On the one hand, we are hard-wired to focus more on negative things.

There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being good at whatever it is one spends one’s days doing, and having the freedom to…

A design that I was recently implementing required a partial width underline for some headings and a partial height border as a divider between two elements.

This is the first in the Seven Languages series of posts and covers the Io language, a small prototypal language.

"Films like When Harry Met Sally

If I do this right then I will likely offend everyone, and then gently touch hearts so that we can all see eye to eye and heart to heart.

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).

One of the challenges that we have had in the recent past at work is with dependencies that don’t lock down their dependencies well.

My team lead at Instructure, Dan Dorman passed this fantastic article from 1985 by Peter Naur around the team a few days ago.

Noise is everywhere in our lives.

:hover’s days are numbered.

It is said that change is the only constant and that certainly proved true this year around here in 2015.

I thought I would throw together a list of resources I have found interesting and useful when it comes to building the internet.

A few days ago my wife and I had dinner at a restaurant in Salt Lake City.

I am the average height of my grandfather’s generation.

TLDR: Create small shared granular components for everything, and a "view" is just an ordered collection of components.

To code or not to code?

"Good night, good night!

Just like under-communicating over-communicating poses a serious problem to organizations.

Often newer JS developers ask when they should turn something into a standalone module.

This is a modified and expanded version of an email I sent a few days ago, here for public consumption.

When I was young I thought humility was placing yourself below other people.

Consider this a Public Service Agreement: There is a bug loose in the internet.

I just got done working on a project that involved the use of the audio tag (with flash fallback for IE) and thought I would share a couple of the issues that we ran into in working on it, and how they were solved.

In an interview somewhere in the web development industry: "Hey, have you heard of CSS?"

Dear America: In the wake of yesterday's election it would be wise to reflect on these wise words from our first President, George Washington.

Let’s face it, ultimately the ideal solution for responsive images does not exists yet.

I grew up working with power tools.

A quick javascript tip that lets you eliminate small IF statements Ok so it’s not really that kind of Short Circuit, though it is almost as cool.

We’ve been talking about responsive design around the office a lot lately.

I am working on a little side project (ansble.com) which is going to require scalability, and a layered architecture that I just couldn't reasonably build in a physical environment.

I am working on a little side project (ansble.com) which is going to require scalability, and a layered architecture that I just couldn't reasonably build in a physical environment.

This morning after reviewing the hackmycf.com* scan results foransble.com I noticed that the only major security issue that turned up was that the railo admin was accessible from a public IP address.

Today on the 10 year anniversary of September 11th I thought I would reminisce about my memories from that day, far from New York City.