BenCodeZen Blog

In the absence of writing, I have recently been trying to increase the amount of reading and studying I have been doing in order to broaden my perspectives.

A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week leading up to February 1st, 2019.

A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week leading up to January 25th, 2019.

Today's post is about recognizing the need to pivot.

Today I will be breaking down different approaches for solving the code challenge in Sunday Studies #1.

A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week leading up to January 18th, 2019.

Before it gets too far into 2019, I wanted to write my thoughts on how my DevAdvent experience in 2018 was.

When it comes to looping through arrays and performing a function on each item, there are three common methods that you should be familiar with: for, forEach and map.

Today I will be breaking down different approaches for solving the code challenge in Sunday Studies #1.

A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week leading up to January 11th, 2019.

I recently came across an article written by Jared Spool called Good, Bads, and Dailies: Lessons for Conducting Great Critiques which covers the concepts of what makes reviews / critiques good or bad.

For someone like me who is obsessed with being incredibly fast with accomplishing simple tasks, I have come to learn that the quickest way to get anything done is to reduce the number of steps required it takes to accomplish the task.

The spread operator is a shorthand technique introduced in ECMAScript 2015 to solve a common problem: Taking the items within an iterable and distributing them within another iterable.

My thoughts on the concept of whether there is ever a time when learning is enough.

Welcome to the first edition of Sunday Studies!

A review and celebration of my achievements and picks of the week for the week of January 4th, 2019.

As many people are aware of, there is a big movement to support underrepresented groups in order to help their voices be heard and encourage more diversity in the community.

I recently had a chat with Chris that gave me pause as far as how I approach problem solving.

A little late to the party, but not too late to reflect on 2018 and everything that has happened.

You ever have that nightmare where you sign up for a class that you forget to drop out of and end up needing to take the final at the end of the semester?

For those that have been following me for some time, this is approximately attempt \#8 at establishing a solid writing ritual for my coding life.

I have recently taken an interest in trying to utilizing the OKRs on my personal life.

As most frontend developers are aware, one of the most frustrating aspects of our job is that we are often evaluated based on the quality of designs that we are building.

Whelp.

Recently I've been going back and forth on whether or not it was time for me to return to pure CSS land.

As most of you know, Wes Bos is responsible for creating some of the best courses out there on popular development topics (that are typically front-end).

Over the past few years, I’ve had the chance to talk with multiple designers about their work and what their environment is like.

I had a friend who recommended that I watch “Your Name” a while back.

Over this past weekend, I had the incredible opportunity of visiting Harry Potter world in Orlando, Florida for the first time!

Now that I had solved the Rubik's cube, one would think that I would never touch a Rubik's cube again.

When I first encountered my first Rubik's cube, I was fascinated by the numerous colors and patterns.

For my entire life, I've always envied those who could solve a Rubik's cube.

Let me begin by stating that I have a been a hardcore Sublime Text user for the past 3 years.

For those who don't know me, I'm a compulsive learner.

Being a full-stack developer is all the craze right now.

For those who watch Silicon Valley, you might remember this hilarious scene where Richard is dating a girl who uses spaces instead of tabs and there's hilarity that ensues as they do work next to one another.

With November being National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I thought it would be appropriate to follow a similar theme and to simply try to write a post every day this month.

With the start of a new month, I've decided that it's time to be introspective on my past behavior and patterns in an effort to figure out what has held me back.

As a self-taught developer, I've hit a couple of key milestones in my career: (1) managing to get a job in the field without any formal training and (2) proving that I was able to keep up with everyone and push forward regardless of the challenges in front

Over the past few months, I've been taking a deep dive in ReactJS in ways I would have never anticipated.

I was reading my daily Quora digest this morning and the following post: \"What did you do to make your software career better?

Over these past couple of months, I have had the opportunity to work on some fun and challenging projects.

Nowadays, it is pretty much impossible to get involved with a project without hearing about "being more agile."

It's been a little over a month since I last wrote here.

I recently read "Ten Things I Have Learned" by Milton Glaser and was struck by the notion of the idea of "never having a job."

While I was taking a break today, I decided to check to see if one of my favorite choreographers Matt Steffanina had any new material up for some creative inspiration.

I read this article by Addy Osmani a while back that was in response to the "How It Feels to Learn JavaScript in 2016" post.

As I continue catching up on Front End Happy Hour, I came across the episode Mixed drinks and Mixed languages.

For those who don't know me, my name is Ben and I come to the world of coding primarily self-taught and the simple fortuitous circumstance of being born in a time and place where technology was easily accessible for me.

I cannot even begin to count how many times I tried to launch this blog.