Travis Bumgarner's Blog

Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned from My Largest Project to Date.

When all we do is our day jobs, we can afford to throw money at problems.

We know what the user wants, before they act.

I've started a bunch of side projects.

The time between visiting a website and seeing its content fully loaded offers creative space to capture a user's attention and keep them from leaving.

Frustrated with AWS's complexity and cost risks, I switched to NearlyFreeSpeech for its prepaid model, ensuring financial control while keeping hosting simple and flexible.

Text editors are great for writing code.

These are my observations as the world went remote and team dynamics went online.

So you want to organize a virtual team outing?

Ever wanted to improve your ability to convey what's in your head to your audience?

Engineers are pushed to write code quickly and the quality suffers because of it.

This is my first technical talk!

Engineers love to start side projects and never finish them.

Over the years I have been on both sides of the interview process.

I have learned a lot along the way and I'll share those lessons learned here.

In the pursuit of learning about electronics and other subjects, I have developed a set of skills that have enabled me to learn new subjects more quickly and thoroughly and with less frustration.

I love starting hobby projects.

One Day I decided to learn how to make circuit boards.

I have gotten very good at managing my time over the years, here is how I do it.

I marked my service in the Peace Corps as a failure.

In 2016, I set out to launch my first product on Kickstarter.

This is an exploration into learning more about photography by building a camera.