Nate a web developer at Eastern Illinois University and occasionally adjunct-faculty at EIU teaching some courses in the School of Business. He lives in Champaign, IL with his wife and dogs Indiana ("we named the dog Indiana...") and Bear.
Sometimes as a programmer, you just want to work on the code you want to do that day. You don’t want to code up another form, and fix some old code. Sometimes you want to move your entire website to HTTPS, or start using service workers.
Thanks for Chris Coyier for posting this article, made me feel good:
Seth hit the nail on the head today, especially for the web industry.
More than being able to write a resume or fit-in, what good companies ask for is “show me your side projects” or “What are you really passionate about?”
The college experience is about so much more than going to classes – if that’s all you’re doing, you’re missing out. Get involved, start something, make something.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/no-direction-home.html
Progress is being made in making web apps just as good as mobile apps. It’s great to see the web community work together to add new features to the browser that can make the web better than ever.
The use of passphrases instead passwords is more intuitive and practical:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/passphrases-more-user-friendly-passwords/
Fantastic article that makes it apparent how to design your UI when creating web apps:
http://scotthurff.com/posts/why-your-user-interface-is-awkward-youre-ignoring-the-ui-stack
I’m not great at being mindful, it is definitely something that would help me though, as I’m one of those people that try and fit a million things in each day.
This article discusses some of the main backward compatible breaking items in PHP 7 and the new features to be excited for. #1 is speed!
Awesome free service for web professionals doing freelance work (which as we’ve seen before is a crazy high number). Legally legit and looks great. Even includes digital signatures:
A great post from Humans of New York reminded me why I published the last edition of the EIU Bluebook.
“I’m a rare book librarian. I get to touch books every single day. My colleague and I have a joke that we are…
Posted by Humans of New York on Wednesday, September 16, 2015
I’m fortunate to have the option to work remote occasionally at my job. I do feel more productive, and I guess I was surprised to see my feelings back up with numbers: