My 2021 Reading List

As younger generations enter the workforce over the next decade, they will be familiar with tools and technologies that were purely science fiction when Millennials and Generation X-ers were entering the workforce (those on the older spectrum for Millennials anyway). Aside from the technology shift, there has also been a…

In Jason Calacanis’s book Angel, he talks about the importance of being in Silicon Valley to invest in startups. His comparison for why it matters to be here is that it is like playing Texas Hold’em poker and starting every hand already having one ace automatically. Well, if investing in…

Another overnight success, 15 years in the making It all started with the nugget of an idea in 2005. Facebook had launched the year prior. Some kids one year ahead of me in school were building something groundbreaking. Sure, all my friends had Myspace, but this was different. Majorly different…

How annoying is it when you click “Save” and then nothing happens? You’re a developer, so you pop open the browser console and check to see if there are errors… nothing. So, you wait and watch the “Network” tab. Eventually, you see a resolution of an Ajax call come through…

(Functional vs. OOP & Monolithic vs. Microservices Architecture) — A lot of talk has happened recently around the concept (which has been developing over time) of Progressive Web Applications (PWAs). Addy Osmani provided an excellent explanation on his blog of what this means: A Progressive Web App uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience. They evolve…