December 11, 2018
Part of what I want to do with this site is recommend tools and resources that I’ve found valuable, in the hopes that you might benefit from them and enjoy them as I have.
There has been one program, in …
October 24, 2018
Though pathlib was introduced in python 3.4 to some praise, I didn’t “get” it. Like many things in python, I needed some time to come around and tinker with it before I realized the power within. I can’t remember when …
July 3, 2018
At the most recent PyRVA meeting, I had the opportunity to coach an aspiring web developer to start his first local web server and view a website that he created. It was truly a privilege to see his excitement.
In …
May 17, 2018
A little while ago, I asked the Internet its thoughts about how best to work with CSS when following the BEM methodology. And in the following months, I’ve come across some ideas worth sharing.
When I was …
February 23, 2017
I am glad that mental health is being discussed more often in the programming world. In particular, I would like to thank Kenneth Reitz for his transparency over the last few years and contributing his recent essay on developer burnout …
November 9, 2016
I have written few articles about how Sublime Text has been such a great environment to get my work done—and there’s more to come, I have been extremely happy with Sublime for years.
But listening to Michael Kennedy and some …
October 26, 2016
At work, we follow the BEM methodology in naming our HTML elements and CSS styles. But we’ve been struggling with the best way to inherit styles from similar blocks. As with many things in programming, there’s great documentation to get …
October 24, 2016
I’ve only recently started listening to the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, but I’m finding it a good source of ideas I want to be exposed to, particularly with product development, analytics, and marketing.
In episode 214, …
October 18, 2016
How many times have you had the thrill of releasing a new service or app to the world, only to have it crashing down when you test the URL and find a server error page instead of your work? Here …
October 13, 2016
The software industry believes every developer should be test-driven to the capacity she can be… and probably a little more. I tend to agree with that, but in individual conversations, (and if I’m honest, in my own head) I notice …