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import { Image } from "astro:assets"; I'm in my early forties, yet I'm pushing my body harder and smarter than I ever did in my twenties.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; As I turn 40 this year, I've been reflecting on the journey of building Frontend Masters.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; Over ten years ago on Feb 14, 2014, Todd Gardner reached out to me for advice on his startup TrackJS.

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import { YouTube } from '@astro-community/astro-embed-youtube'; import { Image } from 'astro:assets'; Happy New Year!

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import { YouTube } from '@astro-community/astro-embed-youtube'; import { Image } from 'astro:assets'; Happy New Year!

I met Matthew Dornquast when he was speaking on July 24th, 2011, at the Bootstrapper's Breakfast in Minneapolis.

import { YouTube } from '@astro-community/astro-embed-youtube'; import { Image } from 'astro:assets'; Here's a 2020 recap, but first Happy New Year!

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; This summer (2019) our new baby girl arrived.

This year I've went through many personal finance resources.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; In 2018, I managed to write a lot more code – 2,129 commits total.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; Building a "Dream Team" Environment Most of what I've been thinking about these days is continuing to grow and build an amazing team.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; 2017 was the year I built a team of amazing people We are small, but incredibly effective.

import { YouTube } from '@astro-community/astro-embed-youtube'; The team captured the story of starting Frontend Masters (~6 minutes) -- enjoy!

This is the year I quit consulting.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; Turning 30 has been interesting.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; Likely many of your projects have died due to lack of keeping the momentum going and growing.

import { YouTube } from '@astro-community/astro-embed-youtube'; My last talk was given at Fluent conf, one of more premiere JavaScript and web development conferences out there (created by O'Reilly, curated by Peter Cooper and Simon St.

This article is for all of my super smart friends.

As 2013 comes to a wrap I wanted to take a moment to draw out some thoughts from my experiences being self-employed for 5 1/2 years as a user interface developer by trade.

import { YouTube } from '@astro-community/astro-embed-youtube'; In 2013 I gave 7 talks, 3 videos and wrote 4 external articles (...and tweeted 3,516 times).

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import { Image } from "astro:assets"; I wrote this article looking out the window of the cheap bedroom I'm renting, while thinking about how I planned to dump significant amount of my business's profits into creating a conference that is free for everyone.

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Being a great web developer is not something you just "fall" into.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; Introspection and reflection on the last few years of being a "balls to the wall" entrepreneur, I've studied and found a few commonalities of successful people and the ability to accumulate wealth.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; Since this website is dedicated to documenting my career, I figure I'd better take a look at the last 11 months which have been quite inspiring.

import { Image } from "astro:assets"; Here is an update on the status of my projects as of 10 months ago.

In the last few years I have shared many triumphs and positive things, but now I am going to pull from a chapter in my life that was dark to pull out lessons learned and expose the story about this company I worked for.

I was writing about my own startup companies, then found Ryan Carson's post on "building his web applications".

2008 was a year of embarking on a journey towards personal freedoms in my career, which although was scary at times, paid off in spades.

I have decided to pour all of my resources and energy into getting four rather demanding projects done before the end of the year.

I have been operating as a small consulting agency for my clients lately.

After years of working with developers and observing motivations - it seems I've somewhat generalized people into a few categories.

I received a request for employment from a company who had gotten funding and was trying to assemble an, "all star team" (I made the above logo for fun).

Note: The company is now Mirum Minneapolis.

Part 1 (Series) I got interviewed by Google and was turned down.

This year has been an incredible year on the career front.

Recently, I started the employee review process at work.

How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords raises some great questions about internet security.

Note: This post is from sometime before 2007, but it still very much applies today.

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