Posts About Personal Personal Goals Post

Every 100 days, each of us at 42floors chooses a personal goal to accomplish before the 100 days are up. Back in November, I chose my current goal: …

A few weeks ago, I was given some terrible news: my talk proposal had been accepted. It might seem strange that being granted something I had asked …

For several months now, buried in my growing list of blog post ideas has been a single line: “ruthlessly prioritize”. If I remember …

Writing code that is easy to read and understand later is arguably the most important habit of a good software developer. There’s plenty that …

About a year and a half ago, over ten years into my career as web developer, but with only about six months of using web frameworks of any kind, I …

About once a week at work, someone hits an error while trying to deploy code. It’s always the same one: permission denied early in the …

I am a horrible procrastinator. Starting up new tasks can be next to impossible. My mind’s ability to unconsciously switch from problem-solving …

A few weeks ago I finally added a cast iron skillet to my cooking toolbelt. Since then, I’ve nearly burned myself several times, struggled …

With the tradition going strong over at r/flying, I figured I better share the story of my checkride before I forget it all. To get any real suspense …

Today I stumbled across Rands’ article praising simple design and criticizing the multitudes of options most products, especially software products, …