Malaga Cove in Palos Verdes, California is a great spot to catch the sunset. At sunset, it's a place were families, couples, and sometimes dreamers go to watch the sunset. At sunset on Sunday, I watched one particular person stare longly against the sunset. It appeared they were waiting for their ships to come in. [...]
This post discusses how hard it for listeners to fully understand what a speaker is communicating. Misinterpretation happens often. What verbal tools can be used to improve interpretation? Perhaps, imagining a spoken word highlighter pen so that speakers could highlight their key points could help. [...]
Pragmatism has often told me that dreams cannot become real unless they're followed by an actionable plan. I've share this logic with friends when they tell me an unrealistic dream and to my surprise, 'thanks' was not the typical response. Responses tended to be negative. Dreams are often just that, dreams. Let then live if they make others happy. [...]
This post observes how different communication can be from intent to reception. It focuses on observations on simple comunications. [...]
This post documents getting setup with TypeScript—just beyond the Gettings Started TypeScript Tutorials. In this Post I will go through setting up a Test Driven TypeScript project. [...]
I stopped posting on this blog in September last year, 2017. It was an easy decision to make then. There were specific reasons I stopped, but I couldn't articulate them. [...]
Week 34, I was able to do some trail running after a few months of not running [...]
Laying low but staying focused on coding, running and writing. [...]
Normalizing CSS has been a default part of front-end projects for years. This post questions that and provides some points on why normalizing css may not be needed. [...]
Code Review Etiquette is an important for code quality, engineer happiness, and engineer growth—but is never talked about? [...]
Making a maintainable CSS font partial. [...]
This year I, Jeff Wainwright, spent Labor Day in Dallas with friends. [...]