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December 2018

How I sidehustled $180k and why it almost killed my business

Logging 1,721,410 events per day with Postgres, Rails, Heroku, and a bit of JavaScript

Never give up

Tooltips ... tooltips are not so easy 🧐

Building a React dataviz with React hooks

Why you should write [code] every day

November 2018

React for Dataviz Turkey πŸ¦ƒ sale report for the curious

Oh the things you can learn with a fun weekend hack project πŸ—

Waiting for Godot with callbacks, promises, and async

To experience true flow, try baking πŸ‘©β€πŸ³

Some life advice I learned from computer science

Announcing D3blackbox and useD3

Easy D3 blackbox components with React hooks

October 2018

React hooks in a nut shell πŸ₯

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Why you aren’t drowning in recruiters, too

Making a Node CLI both global and local

I built a node app to thaw my favorite snack πŸ₯•

It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work – a review

Should you work at a startup

The joy of being a beginner

September 2018

A lesson in sales from the guy who sold me $1500 of gear when all I wanted was a $100 pair of gloves

How I sponsored my own genius visa

Two days in New York with mum & sis ❀️

Online workshops are MORE interactive than in-person workshops

August 2018

The most frustrating debugging experience I've had all year

How virtual memory saves lives, workshops, and your sanity

Build responsive SVG layouts with react-svg-flexbox

Lifestyle inflation after 3 years of San Francisco

I'm tired – a poem