I discovered a site called Code Wars which I'm going to use to help me learn JavaScript and tighten up my programming in general. So I signed up and played around with one of the Katas on the site.

One of the things I noticed on the site was that …

For whatever reason I decided to make a mixtape of electronic music that I normally wouldn't be able to share via Open Metalcast and Club Metal (the show that features most of the industrial-influenced metal music I play). So, rather than keep it to myself I decided to release it …

Once again I find myself confronted with the peculiarities of JavaScript's type coercion (as explained in the first chapter of Eloquent JavaScript). I ran into these before and it frustrated me how JavaScript would do conversions that were heavily weighted towards strings:

"5" + 1  // Returns '51' because of string concatenation …

One of the difficulties I'm facing with this unemployment and job search is a theme that I noticed in the last job search: I really need to learn more front-end development. This unfortunately brings me squarely to face the one white whale that has eluded me: JavaScript. So I find …

Even though I'm laid off I'm still trying to work on The Unprocrastination Challenge. I'm trying to keep myself on as many routines as I can even though my tasks aren't accountable to anyone but myself. If I don't hold myself accountable then I'll be drifting along, and that's not …