I love building applications in Vue.js and here’s why I think the future is looking bright for the framework and its community.

1. No build step required

A critical aspect of the Vue philosophy is it be easy to get started. Unlike some other popular frameworks, it’s not necessary to use a complex build tool like Webpack to build an application with it. Just include a script tag pointing to the latest release for development or production, and you have access to the Vue runtime.

<script src=”https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2.5.21/dist/vue.js"></script>

Having a low barrier to entry makes Vue a worthy consideration as a first JS framework to learn.

2. A world-class command line interface

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Another triathlon race season comes to an end.

I became a three-time Ironman when I crossed the finish line at Ironman Chattanooga this past September 30. I’m extremely blessed to have accomplished this feat and owe so much to my family and teammates who have helped make this possible.

I’ve waited a few weeks to collect my thoughts about this race. Immediately afterwards, I was disappointed in the outcome, to say the least. Not so much with the time on the race clock (because every race is different and difficult to compare), but with my ability to rise to the…

I was a senior in high school the first time I heard about the Ironman. Endurance sports wasn’t really a thing I was interested in back then. I played on the high school basketball and soccer teams. We had to run sprints and mile time trials on occasion, but I hated it. Running for distance gave me side stitches. I hadn’t swam much since grade school. I almost never rode my bike.

You can imagine how hard it was for me to fathom why anyone would want to do an Ironman. My basketball coach, Coach Young, introduced us to the…

Last week, I took a short vacation to do triathlon. I packed my equipment and drove over ten hours to Nashville, Tennessee to participate in the Crushing Iron Triathlon Camp. During the three day adventure, I swam nearly 5,000 yards, ran 20 miles, and biked over 90. That may not sound like a vacation to most folks, but to me, it was the perfect escape; a great opportunity to push pause on the stresses of work and single fatherhood. I challenged my mental and physical self alongside some of the best people I have met. …

When I got started in triathlon, I somewhat naively thought that my progress might look like this:

I have completed at least one workout (sometimes two) every day since the start of the new year.

This is what it looks like on my training calendar:

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.

The American Buddhist author, Pema Chödrön, pinned this message to her wall as a daily reminder of letting go and of acceptance as she explains in her book, When Things Fall Apart.

Things fell apart for me last year when my wife Jennifer passed away in her sleep suddenly and unexpectedly. She had dealt with health complications her entire life yet, I was blindsided, unprepared, devastated. The events surrounding her passing were deeply traumatic. She was too young…

Just over twenty miles into my race at Ironman Wisconsin, I was standing next to my bike somewhere on a quiet country road south of Madison. Things were not going well.

At this point of the Ironman, I had been riding my bike over an hour. This is just a fraction of the 112-mile bike course that traversed the farmlands outside the state capital. The bike leg would take me nearly six hours of continuous cycling to complete. This, of course, is only one leg of the Ironman. I had already completed the 2.4 mile swim in cool calm waters…