2025-03-07Everythings old is new?I've spent the last year relearning the industry from scratch shout out to roadmap.sh Partly because the Marriott work settled into maintenance or maybe it was complacency, mostly because I looked up at some point and…[analytics][privacy][work]2024-10-14Loki passed todayLoki passed today. You were the goodest boy, the best riding buddy and the most loyal God damned dog a man could ever ask for. I love you hambone, you did your job so well, now just wait for me big dog. I learned so…[loki]2023-05-12offersNew contract, and a whole new world. I'm at Marriott now, on the team that runs the credit card offers you see when you're logged in on web or mobile booking a stay, the co-brand cards they do with the banks. The stack…[work][personalization][adobe]2021-12-10back at itI'm working again. It's Deere, which I didn't see coming and but then like of course it is, it's the place where people know what my work looks like. No grand return either, no team, no design system. Contract work,…[work]2021-12-03two yearsI stopped writing for a while because there was nothing to report and things got bad during COVID. It has been a year and a half since the contract ended. I have not had a job since. That's the entry. I haven't found a…[work]2020-05-08laid offThe contract ended today. Ended is the polite word, given the state of the world I understand the math even while being on the wrong side of it but fuck. Three years at one place, most of what I know how to do…[work]2020-02-14english is a prototypeThe international dealer locator is live in its first batch of countries now, and I want to write down what building it taught me, because every lesson basically arrived the same way: something I assumed was universal…[react][i18n][tutorial]2019-11-15a button is not a divA bug report came into the design system team a few weeks ago that said, in full, "dropdown does not work." It worked fine on my machine. It worked fine on the reporter's machine too, but this guy wasn't using a mouse.…[react][accessibility][tutorial]2019-08-30telemetry firstI have spent this year rewriting a server rendered site into a React single page app, and the old site had Adobe Analytics wired through every page. I treated the tracking as something to deal with after the screens…[react][analytics][tutorial]2019-04-12updateThe migration shipped. The old Angular app is off, the React one is what everyone uses now, and the whole thing ended with a deploy on a Tuesday and lunch at this Mexican spot in town and the redeeming quality of their…[work][analytics]2019-02-10React Hooks TutorialHooks are actually out now, 16.8, not an alpha anymore. I've been playing with them on a branch since the announcement last October and I'm writing down the beginner guide I wish I found on day one. The whole idea is…[react][tutorial][hooks]2018-10-26Functionally SpeakingI think it’s been 6 months at Deere now. Training is done, I'm through the probation stuff, and I'm on a small team doing internal tooling. The big project is a migration, there's an old Angular app that dealer teams…[react][work]2018-06-01I got a job!I graduated from Woz U today. There was a small ceremony in the big room, they called our names one at a time and a guy at the school took pictures of everyone holding their certificate. My mom came out for it and I was…[learning][work]2018-03-11inflectionIt was 111 today and the heat is not like anything I'm use to in Dallas. We slept under the carport again for the shade, the van is unlivable past about 7:30 in the morning so me and Loki were up at 6 and we're inside…[learning][javascript]