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Pushing to Production on Friday: Quality Code and Mental Health

I’ll start what will be a relatively serious and relatively non-technical blog post on a light note: thank God/Cthulu/The Blood God/Whatever Your Deity of Choice is that the Earth has finished the hellish route around the sun that we shall forever curse as the year 2020. It was horrific, the deadliest year in my lifetime […]

Pivoting, Sustainability and Continuity

I’ve been thinking a lot about all the things I’ve started this year. It’s been a rough one, a hard-working year full of… well, let’s be honest, COVID has kinda fucked things up. I was going pretty heavy into YouTube at the beginning of the year, trying to grow a brand and create content that […]

Blog Building for Fun and Learning! (Dev-A-Day 0x04)

Yes I know, I just got this blog, but I immediately noticed issues and had concerns with WordPress security, and there are a lot of things I’d like to change that WordPress makes a pain in the ass, so why not build something new? Obviously, I’m not abandoning this blog. I’ll still be doing research […]

Dev-A-Day 0x01: The Dev (Mostly) Every Day Challenge

I recently announced on Twitter that I’d gotten a new job as a Sr. Engineer! I’d been developer heavy in many of my roles in the past, as much as I could, despite those roles not being explicitly technical or software development-centric. I’ve done a lot of development work in my “6 to 10” work […]

Moving Away from Centralized Social Media

Those of you who have followed me for a while know that I’ve done quite a lot of moving around on social media. I’ve always had my Twitter account, but I started branching out to blogging on Medium, streaming on Twitch and producing on YouTube. I’ve had my reasons for each of these moves and […]