Latest Musings
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Working From Home + Homeschooling During COVID-19
READ MORE →: Working From Home + Homeschooling During COVID-19I’ve seen many resources for working from home if you don’t normally (not an issue for me), and plenty of resources for homeschooling your kid, but nothing about having both parents working full time while homeschooling your child(ren). The situation we are in…
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Thoughts on Mental Health, or, Can’t You Just Make Yourself Do It?
READ MORE →: Thoughts on Mental Health, or, Can’t You Just Make Yourself Do It?You may be wondering what this post could possibly have to do with technology. Everything, and nothing. Nothing to do with any technology we work with, but everything to do with the people who make it. When asked in a 2018 survey on…
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AddThis: A New Love Affair
READ MORE →: AddThis: A New Love AffairI’m 1000000000000% certain I am very late to this party, because there was a long time between the first time I used AddThis, and the most recent time that I used AddThis. The new interface, the excellent customizing options, I’m in love.
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Work, Life, Learning
READ MORE →: Work, Life, LearningI’m going to tell you a secret. Are you sitting down? Are you ready? I’m exhausted. Some of that comes from some personal reasons, which I will not get into here, but when I think about everything that there is to learn, to…
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Coding and Rubber Duckies
READ MORE →: Coding and Rubber Duckies♫ Rubber ducky, you’re the one! ♫ A nightmare of a week with competing deadlines and other issues ended with me explaining the rubber ducky theory of debugging to a marketing coworker who is also relatively new to the company. For those who…
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A Lesson in Learning
READ MORE →: A Lesson in LearningThis post didn’t turn out the way I expected it to, but it still drives the point I was going for. —— Pain. Frustration. Irritation. Sadness. Regret. Losing. Achievement. Accomplishment. Triumph. Happiness. Completion. Winning. Tears. Smiles. I was raised to do better, be…
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Jump in the Deep End
READ MORE →: Jump in the Deep End“Always apply for a job even if you only meet half their requirements. No one can fit them all, you can learn.” – A lot of people When I wrote about Mental Shifts in development, it also had made me think about how…
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Mental Shifts
READ MORE →: Mental ShiftsAs a relatively new developer (aka not coding since I could talk) when I step into a new code base that I have had no hand in writing, I try to write new code and solve problems the way the code was already…
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Web, Windows, and Mac: A Story
READ MORE →: Web, Windows, and Mac: A StoryLike many developers who prefer Mac to PC, I find myself in a position at a place where .NET is king, so having a VM is a part of every day life. That is all well and good, but switching between the two…
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OSS: Ooooh, Shiny! Syndrome
READ MORE →: OSS: Ooooh, Shiny! SyndromeTech moves fast. Super hella fast. The best analogy I’ve heard was in a meeting recently, tech years are similar to dog years. In a nutshell, if you haven’t noticed, a new technology is released and BAM they are already announcing the next…
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Jenny Rasmussen
This part of the site is just for my random musings about my career, random stuff I like, happenings, and whatever else I feel like talking about.
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