Author: DJ Billings
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Oktober
Sporadically Reading: The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan The Stand, Stephen King Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, Alan Alda The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman How I choose to link the books I share. A sort of linking manifesto. Work & Projects & Stuff Somehow I quickly went from writing a…
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What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part II
What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part II A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. If you’re just learning this now, go back and Read Part I: Before Blue’s Clues. Part II: I Got the Job! Getting in: The…
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What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part I
What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part I A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. Maybe you’ve heard of it. If you haven’t, that’s okay. You can catch up on the show’s Wikipedia page. It was an immensely popular…
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You’re going to die anyway.
You’re going to die anyway. “You know you’re going to die anyway, right?” It was 1999 and I had just temporarily moved into my Uncle John’s studio apartment in New York City. He very generously let me stay with him while I found an apartment for my family. After several years of trying to break…
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Septiember
Hop on board my Reading Railroad: The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan Mastering the Coding Mindset, Mads Brodt The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman How I choose to link the books I share. A sort of linking manifesto. Work & Projects & Stuff Holy ink, Batman! After…
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The frustration and magic of being a slow thinker
I’m a slow thinker. Not slow in that I don’t understand what’s going on, but slow in that my thoughts tend to percolate a little longer than others’ do. I guess you could say I’m more of a pourover thinker than a Nespresso thinker. I’ve always been a slow thinker. In school, I was never…
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Awww, gust.
Reading Rainbow: The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan Mastering the Coding Mindset, Mads Brodt A Mind for Numbers, Barbara Oakley, PhD How I choose to link the books I share. A sort of linking manifesto. Work & Projects & Stuff Last month I talked about that coding bootcamp I was registered to do. As excited…
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Coding Journey Update
I first started learning to code in grade school – which is not that strange these days but in 1982 it was pretty groundbreaking. I wrote more about that on my dj-codes site. I started coding again in the early days of the web. I created sites from scratch and tinkered with HTML wherever I…
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Get off my lawn
Phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst… On one of my morning walks in our suburban Los Angeles neighborhood, I took a detour around a home where a mass of sprinklers was dousing the lawn in little arcs. The lawn was green, lush and beautiful. If I played golf, I probably would have been tempted to tee up. Instead, I skirted…
