Essays

I visited Italy for the first time this year, and no surprise, was rustling for a selfie stick on every street corner. Like the whole world…

Being the obnoxious husband that I am, when I found out my wife had never seen the Lord of the Rings I force fed all the extended versions…

I sat today with my eye closed and thought about a fire. I had recently listened to Jon Hopkins' Sit Around the Fire and considered how my…

Doing hard things I was blessed with a mother who always told me I could do hard things, whether it was sports (I played on several…

Why learning to code has been one of the best choices I've ever made. At a macro level, software is eating the world . The top 5 most…

For a long time I've been a fan of digital solutions for real-world problems. Parents won't get you a dog? Tomagotchi. Need a way to connect…

After a year being closely involved on the docs for Gatsby , I've learned a thing or two and have started seeing patterns in it and other…

I've been attending BYU since Fall of 2013, and I've learned a thing or two along the way. As I approached graduation, I often found myself…

As I’ve evaluated contradicting opinions in different areas of software engineering and development like bootcamps vs college degrees, this…

Like many people, I have no shortage of ideas for apps that don’t genuinely need to exist. I tend to hold onto those ideas waiting for some…

Making Animation Approachable Being a wizened guru of CSS used to be a barrier for entry to designing complex motion animations. Libraries…

Shave off hours of work with a simple to use React component built for images. Optimizing images hardly sounds like an ideal afternoon of…