Category: General

  • Full Stack React Course Done!

    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…

  • What engineering teams *still* look like

    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,…

  • That one time my band opened for Flock of Seagulls

    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…