Emmett's Blog

These aren't a list of goals, that I'll reflect on in a year.

Do More, Better.

I am forever the green dot (online).

We see so much polish and shine in our daily lives, that we even get to the point of not wanting to start anything unless we know that the final product will be shiny and "Worth It".

FOMO: This week Future Commerce is hosting an INCREDIBLE event in Miami part of Art Basel.

Every Fall I get the urge to rebuild my site and start writing more to beat the winter blues.

This time of year always feels like a lot.

I keep getting messages from PR firms trying to place me in Forbes and Entrepreneur.

The adventures of changing careers and finding something I truly enjoy doing took a lot out of me.

It's strange to think about where I was professionally when my first child was born.

There was an Easter I remember to well growing up.

Weekends tend to bring way more chaos than during the week.

3 kids, No working laundry machine.

Most people will tell you the ideas they have, the dreams they have of building something that will change their life.

I find myself driving around trying to a replacement heating element for our dryer.

Been thinking a lot about how much stuff is needed to develop software in 2023.

A lot of people seem to impressed with my dedication to get into tech.

Things happen.

This is something, I have wanted to try for awhile.

This will be an update to Emmett's Course App The original project was built as my capstone project for Treehouse's full-stack javascript tech degree program.

Last night after dinner, my wife texts me from upstairs and says our oldest child told her what he was going to get me for my birthday.

I don't make asks very often.

Today I cleaned out the water kettle that I use for making coffee.

Feeling pretty beaten up after this year.

First, I've got to work with wonderful people, which helped make the challenging parts of this year bearable.

As we all this year has been a rollercoaster for many.

This year has been a wild one.

Recently listened to Chase Jarvis's podcast interview: Hard Work Beats Talent with Norton Zanini It got me thinking of my journey into tech.

If this year has taught me anything, things move fast.

Summer time.

Its been almost 5 years from starting to learn to code to starting a job as a software engineer.

It's amazing how life happens sometimes.

So 2021 was supposed to be my year.

This has always been something that I've been thinking about since having kids.

#CoderDads has started a newsletter!

Changing careers is hard.

Project: Build Github's User Search functionality You can use the REST API or the GraphQL API I did both!

Most front-end projects can be hosted for free online, using something like Github Pages or Netlify.

This project was a lot of fun, and can be shared easily with friends who want to add their reading list to the project.

Jason Lengstorf was doing an #EggheadChat on Twitter and I asked him: Finished my paid client project.

After being motivated to create a "Looking for Job" Tweet by Jamon.

It's been almost 4 years of trying to break into tech.

A year ago today, I met Levi Martinez at the local Starbucks to talk about his Startup: Kitkaton He was in Vermont for the holidays.

see tweet I think about this question a lot.

This year has been a rollercoaster, I am thankful that back in 2019 I helped start a community of Dads.

Now what?!

Don't Put off your Dreams Its easy to make excuses.

Reasons to Bet on Me Getting a job is hard.

Goal: To Display a "Random" Quote on the Screen Click me to see a Live Link Click me to go to the RepoGithub Link Step 1: Create the array of quotes you want to display In the Array, You will break them up into Quote, the movie, and the year the movie came

July 23rd 2018 That date is when I was enrolled in Treehouses Tech Degree Program.