I’m doing some research on how to run productive sprint retrospectives. Mountain Goat Software has a good structure that breaks down into how to encourage good habits: Start: What needs to be added to the team’s habits Stop: What needs to be changed or removeed Continue: What working but needs to continue in order to…

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As we build out our site infrastructure and document our development process in our github wiki, I’ve been learning a lot about Markdown. I’m loving the simplicity of this Markdown cheat sheet by Adam Prichard. It’s a boiled down version of Github’s documentation on writing markdown. It gets straight to the point. Gotta love a…

I never remember how to do this so I’m adding the quick steps here. I know there are ways of auto generating a Table of Contents in Google Docs, but I don’t know, I just like making my own. Don’t judge me. Go through your body of text and Select the headers/text you want to…

Maybe I can make a daily(ish) bad sketch about my life. Trying it out. Today: Tired of watching my husband get all awesome and superhero-ey as I remain squishy. Trying something new.

I’m a fan of this codementor article by Lawrence Bradford about what you should always include in a resume/portfolio. Simple, to the point, a great no-nonsense list. Also liked her blog all about helping new coders find resources    

Great for helping students visualize how they are constructed. https://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/  

Needed to stop a video from playing and was impatient and having trouble getting it to work using YouTubes APIs. Found this solution and it worked right off the bat. https://gomakethings.com/stopping-youtube-vimeo-and-html5-videos-with-javascript/ Add this method to your script: var stopVideo = function ( element ) { var iframe = element.querySelector( ‘iframe’); var video = element.querySelector( ‘video’…

Note to self: Make a resistor color code calculator.

This is an interesting high-level overview of what a full-stack developer roll looks like. https://medium.com/coderbyte/a-guide-to-becoming-a-full-stack-developer-in-2017-5c3c08a1600c

Although it was another lifetime ago, I used to work at Apple, so when I have issues with my Mac, it bruises my ego. Lucky for me, the internets are full of answers to questions. My hard drive disappeared from the finder. I knew it was ok, I could get to it through the Terminal,…

I’ve been banging my head against the wall because a local install of a wordpress I’m developing would for some reason not let me go to any wordpress subpages. I kept looking at my permalink settings, they looked fine, tried adding mod_rewrite to my htaccess file. It didn’t make sense because the admin pages were…

https://www.masterworksfineart.com/blog/frank-stella-and-moby-dick-a-whale-of-an-imagination/ Stella explained “I think the Moby Dick series [1986-1997] is a kind of turning point. I was a little afraid, and probably still am a little, with Moby Dick, but the pictures [are] essentially curved surfaces. They started to really move, and the novel moves; you’re going around the world, it’s pretty wet, there…

There are fifty billion favicon generators on the web and most of them suck. Most want you to join a mailing list or download some nefarious piece of software. It’s been hard to find one that is free AND that makes transparent favicons. I finally found one that does it all. The search is over!…