Tangents

Short micro-blog posts that are more akin to a rant from your conspiracy theory neighbor than they are thoughtful prose.

  • 10 Signs You’re the Asshole – Airport Edition

    10 Signs You’re the Asshole – Airport Edition

    Reading Time: 6 minutesWe’ve all been there: a long layover at a busy airport, waiting for our flights, trying to find a place to charge our various devices, and trying to get as much rest and relaxation as possible in an otherwise crowded and high stress environment. Even though everyone shares this experience at airports,…

  • Single Responsibility Principle and Laravel

    Single Responsibility Principle and Laravel

    Reading Time: 9 minutesDevelopers across the industry are familiar with the Single Responsibility Principle, the idea that our classes, or our functions should have one and only one job to do. This idea helps us better document, understand, write, and update our own code as well as the code of a team member or open…

  • Update: Tech Tracking Explained

    Update: Tech Tracking Explained

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLate last year, I wrote a short piece on how tech companies and advertising firms can track your behavior online, and a large section of the post focused on browser cookies. To have a quick recap, simply put, cookies are small bits of information that are generated by websites and stored on…