Usability Testing Made Me a Better Developer

A few months ago, I took some intro to user experience classes online. I wanted to get more familiar with some different areas and get a better understanding of the entire process. I have always wanted to design more and learn more about other parts of the stack then I…

What I Read This Year

The goal this year was to read two books a month. I think that I will fall short but I have a great pace of at least one a month. I am up from last year of about 1 book every two months. The Art of Non-Conformity Born For This…

What I Learned Doing Na

NoWriMoIn May, of this year, I started writing every morning. It was just something that I was experimenting with. I started with just some writing prompts I found online. Then I switched to the more daily pages routine. As, of writing this post, I have written a minimum of 750…

What Is The Point of Goggle Allo

Every day, there are always two tabs open on my computer. The first two things I open are Todoist and Gmail. I do most of my communicating with the outside world via Gmail and Hangouts. I also have my Google Voice number send messages and voicemail into Hangouts. I still…

Website Teardown

For some reason, I started down a rabbit hole. That is a journey that yields interesting results. So I decided to run both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s websites through some of the normal tests that I go through for the projects I work on.We ran a few…

Trying To Get 5% Better Each Day

Is there something that has always been on your to do list? Have you always wanted to do something and it just has been sitting on your goals sheet year after year? Podcasting has always been one of those things that interested me. I have always been told that my…

Time To Ship

Lately, I set out on something different. I wanted to make a lot of changes and I have had a lot of lists of to dos and goals. These were things that were just never getting done and got lost in notebooks, forgotten. I was stuck in a cycle of…

Three Years Of Writing

Each year since I started my writing habits I have done a bit of a recap. I started my writing journey three years ago. My goal was just to do something different and explore a different type of creative output and three years later. I am still going and I…