... The following items: Stocks (can I cash out? Can I pay my rent with this? Answer is no, and I don't even know if this startup will be even around tomorrow to even care) Free meals (can I have a competent AND a caring boss instead of th…

Here are some Friday yap to share with you. Rhetorical questions like this is really self-serving confirmations to the person asking the actual question. All answers are wrong as soon as they don't serve to add value, insights as to the re…

I felt that everyone and their grandma (no offense to all the grandma in the world who are excellent software engineers) wants a platform in 2018. Here are some reason I believe platform won't save the world: Information overload (too much…

Here are some thoughts I have after working as a contractor for several years around San Francisco and Silicon Valley: It can be both stressful and scary sometimes, when you are the only frontend developer (or even any developer for that m…

Some talk about a few common code editors I am using for work and projects.Atom Free Visual Studio Code Free (open-source) from Microsoft. Nice. My daily ride for work Sublime Text Free for 30-days, then nag screen after What got me to pay…

I am no expert in anything. Here are some reasons why I think every developer should have a blog, and keeps it updated: Demonstrates analytical skills - Answer why and how you did it in your posts, rather than just do it or copy code from …

Kudos to the team for a painless pre-registration badge pickup. The line was short, the process is quick with plenty of check-in terminals, the check-in process is nearly painless on the computer Video room could use staff improvement: Roo…

Hot and humid in the mornings, but windy on some days Lyft is available in and around Houston now Downtown Houston is dead at night during weekdays, with only a few fancy restaurants and bars left open I was intimidated by two patrol perso…

After viewing a YouTube video on the plight of video sharing sharing as whole, it gave me some thoughts as I am working on my own platform. Though the topic of the video specifically focused on YouTube and all current/future video-sharing …

Some rant I have after completing a 10-hour onsite assessment (test), which involved building a static Website based on a mock from Zapier with HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, and then move parts of the CSS and HTML code into React components. Here is…

So... What's with the project names? Project Akita - 秋田 (WordPress theme in PHP/Timber/SASS/JavaScript)Project Chiba - 千葉 (React app with React-native, Webpack) Project Ehime - 愛媛 (React-native iOS/Android app pairing with Project Ch…