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Everything that is not code. Reviews, postmortems, burnout, teaching, and learning out loud where people can watch you get it wrong.

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Integrating a Notion Database with an Astro Site

My entire life is planned & documented in Notion. How can I pull that content into my Astro site so I don't have to duplicate it in content collections?

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Making a Man: Lessons Learned from My Single Mother

Remembering the integrity and tenacity my mom displayed in her life and the lessons she worked to instill in me.

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Building 404 Pages That Bring Joy

How we transformed the bad experience of landing on a 404 page into an enjoyable experience with a game.

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Building a Discord Bot to Improve Inclusive Language

Building a Discord bot sounds like a fun and I couldn't think of a better first project than trying to make it a safer space for everyone.

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Using Polywork to Break My Unconscious Biases

Polywork is an interesting new LinkedIn competitor. After joining, I wanted to ensure that my "bubble" included a diverse set of people. Here's how I did it.

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Building my Ultimate Rustic Developers Desk

I've always wanted to build a desk that fits me. So welcome to my journey to build my ultimate developer desk.

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Live-Coding to Learn, Share and Encourage

A reflection on one year of coding live on Twitch to learn new technologies, share what I know, and encourage others to grow personally & professionally.

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Using Apollo to Query GraphQL from Node.js

It's a common scenario—you built a quick prototype, it worked great, and now management wants it live yesterday. GraphQL can help get it out the door.

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Current Twitch live-coding stream setup

I've started working a lot more at trying to get my setup just right so I could live code some personal projects and hopefully help others learn new technologies.

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Setting up Raspberry Pi for use in kiosk mode with Chromium

Recently one of our clients approached us to develop an application that would run on a Raspberry Pi to use in kiosk's throughout their facilities. We ended up writing a web app in Angular that they would run via Chromium.

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Girls Who Code

These days, the topic of women in technology is hot. As a dad of two daughters, I often think about what their futures hold. One thing I know, they belong here as much as any man.

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