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I write a letter to my past self about the Shell's importance I wish I'd focused on earlier in my career.

Inspirational-sounding goals seem good, but have gotten me nowhere. Measurable goals force me to step up and try.

What if instead of 'The Adventures of Johnny Bunko,' he had been a programmer by the name of Johnny JavaScript? How would these six career essentials have changed?

Two months after redesigning my site, a big event makes me do it all over again.

I revisit my first real Node program to refactor it with more ES6 syntax, asynchronous functions, and anime wallpaper feeds.

Today our attention is in more demanded, and more easily wasted, than our money.

With so much to keep learning as a junior dev, I've remembered not to trust my brain to hold onto all the new info.

If you don't know what rebasing in Git is, read this before it's too late. Especially if you love cupcakes!

Part of being a junior dev is controlling the overwhelming pressure I put on myself to learn as much as possible.

For my first web project that wasn't a website, I broke down a goal that involved Node, scheduled functions, the Twitter API, and a feed of anime wallpapers.

I've found I'm not a happy person. I wouldn't have it any other way.

It's easy to see why pattern libraries are useful, but tough to successfully maintain them over time.