Building a New Routine There’s much that needs doing. Always. You could fill every moment of every day working toward any number of endeavors, and it seems almost impossible, sometimes, to stop and prioritize. How do you stack rank the improvement of your health when compared to the possibility of retiring, for example?
Mental Health Crises Aren't Convenient Or: That One Time I Went Crazy (again) I'm thankful for the existence of FMLA [https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla] knowing that my job is protected (or at least as protected as possible under the law). I'm worried about the fact that my only advocates are myself, my
die Überarbeiteteers The overwork exhaustion It turns out there’s a German word for when your burnout is from working too much. I find that I am not suffering from such a burnout, exactly. Mine is more a “too much across too many things for too long” sort of burn out. I
Engineering Control It’s interesting to me to think about my job as “Engineering Manager” and the words “Engineering” and “Management”. Then I think about what might it mean to engineer management? We do that through process. Through trial and error. Through iterative adaptation. Today I spoke with a fellow traveler on
javascript Web Scraping 101 Sometimes you might want to get some data from a webpage, and sometimes you might want to do that using some code.
In Linux, Jobs are Useful! One of my favorite features of POSIX systems is the ability to make use of jobs for multi-tasking. Often I have seen other devs who, for a variety of reasons, may just not know their way around this functionality.
Bremerton On Falling in Love with Your Town There is something magical about actually falling in love with where you live. Loving Where You Live A shot of a journal page about this very topic!Necessary backstory... ??? I have been trying to move to the Pacific Northwest for a very long time. So has Manda. Since we both
Zoom Unnecessary Zoom Fatigue It happens, the unnecessary zoom [https://twitter.com/JillKrajewski/status/1357331466221453312], and it’s pretty frustrating. > when it should've been an email pic.twitter.com/C1eJFX8tyT [https://t.co/C1eJFX8tyT]February 4, 2021 [https://twitter.com/JillKrajewski/status/1357331466221453312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] It’s frustrating because you can’t
Leadership Leadership: People & Process It's About the People, Stupid It’s easy to lose sight of the people element. Recently I attended a training led by Bill Joy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy] who reminded us again how important it is to coach the person not the problem. This is a common
journey Recognizing the PNW Journey Working remotely during COVID-19 has been an incredible experience, but moving more than 1,600 miles from Minnesota certainly added an interesting aspect to the whole experience. When you mesh all that with (in no particular order): * trying to keep a team and a variety of legacy projects from coming
Dev Life Test Tangential Development - TTD We have all heard the TDD Test-Driven Development [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development]. This is, of course, the Right Way™. I am certain that in the last decade or so I have heard TDD evangelized at least a couple times year during various conferences, meetups, podcast, talk tracks,
Dev Life Featured On Being a Capable Impostor I've been doing some form of computer engineering or another since I was about 4 years old when I first copied a bunch of lines of BASIC out of a spiral bound systems' manual for the family RadioShack Tandy TRS 80. My father showed me how to do it and
workflows How to: Cold Brew #DeveloperRocketFuel Coffee is, arguably, the greatest thing that has ever existed ever. It is also, however, one of the most laborious things you can do for yourself and expensive things you can have done for you. The world belongs to Starbucks (and Amazon.. keep it coming Seattle!), but as much
php How PHP 5.4's Closure::bind Saved me From Reflection A few weeks ago I was faced with a problem: I needed to access private variables within a Library class in our Laravel 4 based web application. The library we're using, installed with Composer, did not offer a way to access any of its properties, instead it offered two public
MAMP MAMP Pro 3 + PECL + Extensions = Working MEMCACHE Through a twist of fate well beyond my control I find that I must use a development environment every day that requires MySQL, Apache, PHP and Memcached. As it happens, through various personal life choices, very probably also well beyond my control, my daily driver is a MacBook Pro and
javascript Thingdom JavaScript Wrapper Of late I have been working working on several different projects in my day to day. Our team has been pushing out the release of a new tool called Thingdom [https://thingdom.io/] and I'd like to talk a bit about it and the JavaScript wrapper I worked on. What
Array Array.prototype.diff(meaCulpa) So, it turns out that when you go off all half-cocked all willy-nilly extending a core functionality of JavaScript it's bound to result in a hiccup now and then. It was, then, a few days after posting about my new 'diff' function [https://ephbaum.dev/array-prototype-diff/] that I found my
CSS OMG CSS LEDs!!! I don't know if it's really necessary to provide a lot of preamble for this entry. Recently I needed indicators. I decided to go with some semi-skeumorphic LEDs and you can see the result in this handily embedded codepen: [ See the Pen djhAt [https://codepen.io/fskirschbaum/pen/djhAt/] by
prototype Array.prototype.diff() Update - 23 August 2014 A little mea culpa follow up here... I had to write a follow-up post that corrects something I missed here... check it out. Original article continues Sometimes in the day to day you find some problem that is just fun to try to solve without
Having Fun at Work This might seem completely obvious, but it's important to have fun with your work. Here's a good example. My boss mentioned that he wanted links on the project I'm working out to stand out. So, I gave him what he wanted: When I showed this to him he said that
macOS My Friend Alfred ... and the Monokai Glass Theme. Alfred LogoIf you're a Mac user and you're not using Alfred [http://alfredapp.com] then you're not nearly as efficient as you could be. The advantage of using a GUI based OS is that you don't have to type all of your commands into a
javascript (My) JavaScript Style There isn't exactly a style standard for JavaScript. Douglas Crockford [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_crockford] has a good list of conventions [http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html]. The Google JavaScript Style Guide [https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml] is an excellent resource and there's even a
jQuery (How I) Use Multiple Cached Selectors with jQuery I am embarrassed to admit how often it really happens, but I frequently forget how to use multiple cached selectors with jQuery and usually just fire a quick Google search and then kick myself when I see a Stack Overflow post like this one [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8526226/jquery-how-to-use-multiple-cached-elements]
