The past few days I've been trying to take advantage of weird windows of time to work on my JavaScript. I'm working through chapter 3 of Eloquent JavaScript. I'm finding it a little quicker than most books about programming languages because it goes over a lot of concepts rather quickly …

I'm working through the book Eloquent JavaScript from cover-to-cover. Part of this is baking in the discipline to actually read though the book and not let my experience with other languages overshadow the JavaScript experience. I made it through Chapter 2: Program Structure and did the exercises near the back …

My white-whale of programming languages is JavaScript. It's the one that I've put the most effort into learning and the one that has consistently frustrated every attempt of mine to learn it. But I think the main reason I've had trouble learning it is because I've been looking at it …

Checking in for August for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Writing more / designing more: I've been working on editing my "Mediocre Programmer" book, but it's going slower than I would like. Our schedule changed so I …

Checking in for July for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

(I still haven't made this a template at some point, but I am using the old post as a template. blush)

• Writing more / designing more: This …