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My notes so far from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas From The Computer Age by Paul Graham. Why Nerds Are Unpopular Hackers And Painters What…

David Ceddia’s Pure React course contains self-paced React workshops, the pure react book, and access to previous live events David has…

Notes & takeaways from “Not Caring What People Think Is A Superpower” by Ed Latimore. Some limits are real. Some limits are imagined. You…

Here you’ll find details about the CodeBookClub. Who are we? We are hundreds of developers of all experience levels learning together. We…

Are you learning JavaScript in 2020? Or are you a JavaScript developer who wants to level up his or her skills? Edit: the book club reached…

A photo of me (and some cool lady with sunglasses on) visiting the Art Institute in Chicago this summer. I wrote down a few of the things I…

If you’re learning JavaScript, you’ve most likely heard how important it is to learn the fundamentals. Problem is, you aren’t sure what the…

Photo by Esther Jiao on Unsplash. These are my notes from Functions Are Fundamental, chapter 3 of Secrets Of The JavaScript Ninja, a…

Image from Stripe Press. Below are some of the notes I jotted down while reading this book. These notes are by no means comprehensive. They…

Two years ago, I was right where you are today. I wanted to become a professional programmer. But I had no idea how to make it happen. I had…

When learning how to code, I kept hearing the same advice. “Tutorials are great, but building projects is the best way to learn. Just go…

“12 Rules For Life” by Jordan B. Peterson was one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I was luckily able to attend Peterson’s 1…

Kent C. Dodds has a React beginners tutorial that starts with the absolute basics of React and it’s fantastic. It’s a free course so I can…

The basecs podcast is about computer science basics and based on Vaidehi Joshi’s base.cs blog series. I wrote up some notes on what I…

I’m in Tenerife, Spain with the entire Conversio team. Obligatory working from a hammock photo. Am I digital nomad yet? The whole team…

It has little to do with coding itself. It’s hard to teach yourself how to code because you’ve been told your whole life that you are…

When I was 19, I spent all my time writing a novel about a girl who discovers she’s a magical Fairy. My boyfriend back then was majoring in…

Published at the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. When people find out I was homeschooled, they sometimes ask, “But did you learn? If I…

I was having a conversation with a friend the other week about a book I’m reading called Prisoners of Geography. At one point I said, “This…

Horseback riding is the most beautiful form of meditation. When you’re riding a horse, especially if you learn to gallop (a very fast pace…

1) She bought Madisonkanna.com when I was 10 years old. How many moms got their children’s names as domains when they were 10? She saw the…

The basecs podcast is about computer science basics and based on Vaidehi Joshi’s base.cs blog series. It’s a fun series to listen to if you…

When I was homeschooled growing up, I always imagined having dozens of friends. I had a few close friends, but never very many. Later I went…