Books Read: 23 Pages Read: 5,789 Shortest Book: The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito (33 pages) Longest Book: Penguin Minis: Paper Towns by John Green (648 pages) 2018 Book(s): I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara Favorite Book Read in 2018: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste […]
Category: Personal
My Year in Numbers – 2018
Every year for the past 3 years, I’ve tracked my goals on a spreadsheet. This is my first time sharing specifics from the spreadsheet. I’m creating more specific goals for 2019, though (for example, my reading goals aren’t just tied to a total number of books, but types of reading). […]
My Name is Changing Wednesday!
I’m reinventing myself as my original self on Wednesday. The last 11 months have been a wild ride. One where I’ve learned a lot. I learned a lot about those around me, their capacity for supporting me, about Ohio dissolution law (and about interesting tangentially-related laws that seem decades behind where […]
4 Podcasts I Love
So I initially wanted to name this post, “My Favorite Podcasts,” but I thought that was a little unfair to the future podcasts I will discover. These are the podcasts that I love enough I would (or have) binged. The topics are really random, but I’ll explain why I love […]
Advice For My Past Self
Deeply caring about something is sometimes a choice. Be precise, confident, and persistent and you will be heard. Eat the frog. Offer to do the thing no one else wants to do, but make sure it even needs to be done. Reduce others’ workload as often as possible. Offer help […]
Things I Learned/Re-Learned This Month
This month at work I started to migrate our sites to a new hosting provider. The process of moving the first site was really tedious since I had to remember back to the last time I did a migration, which was 2 years ago. It was also a frustrating process […]
My Favorite Projects From 2016
As 2016 comes to a close, I’d like to reflect on some of my favorite accomplishments from the past year working at KHM Travel Group. We have made great strides to improve our security, workflows, and the tools we provide – all with one goal: to enhance our agents’ businesses […]
The Best and Worst Things About Being a Web Developer
Today I’d like to share with you my favorite things about my career, and the not-so-great things. We’ll start with the worst, since the “best” list cancels them out. The 3 Worst Things About Being a Web Developer #3 People believe you perform magic. I can’t tell you how many […]
Welcome Message
Hello! Welcome to the launch of my newly-improved blog. I will be posting at least once every week on the topics of PHP functions, WordPress, JavaScript, jQuery, database, and more! The site still needs some tweaks (as you may have noticed), so bear with me. I had a lot of […]