• Cake

  Mar 15, 2025 hobbies baking

  

  It's an end of an era for me and my family. I make the cake for my kids' birthdays until their tenth birthday and my youngest finally turned ten. I normally try to keep this blog mostly techy but in the spirit of "owning my content", I thought I'd do a post to showcase some of the cakes I've made over the years. Read more >>

• Utah Front End Conferences 2023 Edition - Part 2

  Dec 05, 2023 conferences react javascript

  

  Did you know that Utah has a vibrant JavaScript community? We even have a few local “tech celebrities” such as Tanner Linsley, Kent C Dodds, & Ryan Florence of Remix & React Router fame. With that community comes some great conferences, two of which include React Rally and the super local UtahJS Conf that I was able to attend this year! See Part 1 for insights around React Rally, this time let’s talk about UtahJS Conf!

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• Utah Front End Conferences 2023 Edition - Part 1

  Nov 24, 2023 conferences react javascript

  

  Did you know that Utah has a vibrant JavaScript community? We even have a few local “tech celebrities” such as Tanner Linsley, Kent C Dodds, & Ryan Florence of Remix & React Router fame. With that community comes some great conferences, two of which include React Rally and the super local UtahJS Conf that I was able to attend this year! There’s a lot to talk about so let’s start with React Rally.

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• Being A Team Norms Chameleon

  Nov 05, 2020 agile soft skills team dynamics pair programming

  

  Team norms are the often unspoken rules, values, or behaviors that a team operates under. Every team has team norms. Some teams even document them (recommended if you can nail them down). Whether someone is new to a team or has been there for some time, it's important to learn how to adapt to these norms. Those that don't learn to adapt to these norms will often find frustration or at worst, termination. Those that can adapt to these norms are what I'm going to call a "Team Norms Chameleon".

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• Reacting To Slack

  Oct 09, 2020 rant communication

  

  I think it's time for a very nitpicky rant about how to use Slack, specifically the "reaction" feature.

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