Name: Jennifer SissonTeam: We Are Mammoth ConsultingRole: Front-end developerLocation: Portland, OregonFavorite place to eat/chill/drink: My…
I’m messing with your mind and publishing on Thursday. Why? Because you don’t read on the weekend. You skydive, lift weights, and butcher whole hogs. Duh. This week: sleep better, boycott boring brands, immortal jellyfish, quitting email in 1991, and, oh, your…
Nothing funny this week. I’m sorry, it’s all negative. Well, actually, there is something kinda funny. It’s funny how much better Finnish schools are than our own, according to an infographic in this week’s list. In other news: don’t hire your bros, don’t bog down…
One of my first revelations about learning came when I was five.
I had arrived late to my kindergarten class one morning just after the teacher had given out instructions for an art activity. Most of my classmates had finished and were onto…
Every now and then I find it necessary to recalibrate my senses. Technology has a way of deluding them so that I forget about how things used to feel or work.
My current recalibration is with my handwriting. Twelve years ago, my typing-to-handwriting ratio…
Changing venues for you and your work is a critical part of discovery and creation. I imagine Neil Armstrong probably felt this in his bones. The next time you hit a rut with a piece of work, uproot it and yourself, it’ll give you a fresh perspective…
This past August, we made a huge shift in our server-side programming tools. Out were .NET web forms and in was ASP.NET MVC. Out were stored procedures and in was LINQ. Out was Anthem (a now unsupported library of .NET classes…
It’s better to finish something that’s not quite right than to continue to tweak and tweak the unfinished piece. It’s much easier to go back and fix something that’s “done” than to finagle with nuances of something you’re still working on.