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Javascript Games
I spent some time playing with making games using vanilla Javascript. I honestly wind up using jquery a bunch when doing simple javascript projects because I find it’s easier to teach designers JQuery than it is vanilla Javascript. I hate when I get out of practice so it was fun to just spend time goofing…
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Well, Here We Are
I saw two posts on instagram the morning of Nov 5th. One was Willy Nelson saying that worrying doesn’t do you any good. It doesn’t solve anything and it just makes you sick The next post I saw was of Elmo, sitting quietly on a stoop, listening to birds, looking around, and taking it all…
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Death and Disaster
Andy Warhol started his “Death and Disaster” photo series in 1962. The series would weave into his practice throughout the 60s and he produced over 70 pieces [sothebys]. Topics included car or plane crashes, suicides, homicides, electric chairs and death by tuna can poisoning. I’m not Andy Warhol so I won’t put words in his…
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Popping a Recap in Your Ass
It seems during the last couple of years that a reflection of the year coming to a close has been potentially the only thing keeping my sanity. Adulting is no joke. The end of 2023 had me begging for a new year, only to get served up a very smelly shit sandwich in 2024. Call…
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Full Stack React Course Done!
Look at that! I finished The Full Stack React course on https://developedbyed.com/. It was so fun and it was great to update my react skills. I’m a big fan of Ed and regularly recommend his videos to my students. This was also my first typescript project. I recommend this for developers who already have their sea…
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What engineering teams *still* look like
I found this image of Mr. E.M. soon after his take over, after all but a few engineers remained, after the mass exodus, mass layoff. The picture showed a team of engineers after pulling an all night code review. There were lots of smarmy comments about it but it wasn’t the comments that struck me,…
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That one time my band opened for Flock of Seagulls
It was at the Cactus Club in San Jose. It was in February 1991 so I was 20 years old. The flock didn’t talk to us, so we made fun of them in hushed giggles. Very immature, I know. All I remember is that they were traveling in an airstream, something I didn’t think was…
