This is the city, St Louis. I work here. My name is Rob. I write code. I carry a badge.
I was talking with another developer this week. And they used a phrase around programming that was interesting to me. They loved the feeling of writing to code “command machines” Here is another factoid about yours truly. I never thought about programming that way. I always thought of writing code as an attempt to communicate … Read more
Developer: I have a meeting with architects and lots of small repos Vs one HUGE repo is what we’re talking about. Me: So the big question is how do you wanna split your huge set of code? In one or many things?The number of things to track in your head remains the same. You either … Read more
Quick tutorial on how to copy an array in JS using the spread operator. What’s going on here? The spread operator does what it sounds like. It takes each element from the source and spreads those elements out into another array. Similar to taking a handful of seeds which can be thought of as a … Read more
Early in my IT career, when I was a network engineer and beginning to venture into some simple programming, I wrote a lot of little utilities. I LOVED doing utility work. They were focused pieces of isolated functionality that performed a specific job. It was so satisfying back then to see that come together and … Read more
I was fortunate to be at Devup again this year as an attendee. Last year I took a shot at documenting my notes here on ye old blog. That “kinda” happened. That is to say, I started, then fizzled out. This year I’m doing it again. But now with more enthusiasm! Writing, I mean. Not … Read more
I was talking to someone on Slack today at work while … um … working, yeah … working really hard. The person I was chatting with was looking to get into IT and asked me how I got my start. I shared with them my very non-typical journey. Then later I figured, hey, why not … Read more
Continuing our series on Devup 2018 (gosh I wrote that like I have a huge readership) let me introduce another rockstar, Angela Dugan. If you get a chance to hear Angela speak, particularly on the subject of soft skills, make it a point to be there. I first heard Angela speak at Devup in 2017 … Read more
Lyndsey Padget. Learner. Public speaker. Writer. Badass. Lyndsey gave this incredible session at Devup this year called Badass 101. I’d never heard Lyndsey before but this won’t be the last time I attend a session led by her, I can tell you that much. This was different. Different in a very good way! It was … Read more