I write about lots of random things.

Organization. One of those things that for me, takes a lot of habit-building and patience to make workable for me. 2 years ago, I find out I've likely been managing symptoms of ADHD for most of my life. How does that show up for me?

In ancient times, sailors used the North Star (Polaris) as a guiding light to navigate through treacherous waters. How does this concept apply to software engineering?

I have been asked, what is it that I host on my homelab? Well, let's take a look.

Come with me on a journey from my old, small NUC to a multi-server, personal cloud on a rack.

Another year, another update on my remote, travelling setup for work and play. In 2023, I returned to traveling much more than I have in recent memory (although, still not quite at pre-pandemic levels). Here's how my travel setup has changed up a bit this year

The refresh needed a refresh. That became a framework switch and site rendering change. But let me explain why...

Didn't travel much in 2021, but in 2022? I've already been to Alaska, San Francisco, Mexico City, and South Carolina - and my setup has changed a little bit.

Today, I waved farewell to the Bay Area, hopped on a one-way flight, and landed in my new home in South Florida. Miami-Dade. 305. *cue Pitbull*

365 Days.

On this day, in 2020, I had on my Coursera blue swag t-shirt, a hair cut, a new pair of kicks, and a birghtly lit office room (with my now "infamous" sneaker wall as the backdrop), onboarding at the next stop on my professional journey...

I had the amazingly fun opportunity to sit down with Lauren Lee, or LoloCoding as she's known on most places, as a guest on her podcast "We Belong Here", which covers all sorts of amazing journeys and unconventional paths to careers in technology.

I had an awesome opportunity to sit down with Bryan Robinson, a fellow Media Developer Expert, on the "That's My JAMStack" podcast, to talk shop about...

After a few years of teaching web development bootcamps, both online and in-person, I've started to branch out and do live code projects and walkthroughs on Twitch!

I've finally decided on the project I want to develop for the Dev + Twilio Hackathon: A Mood Tracking SMS app to make it easy, no matter your internet speed...

Michael Kennedy over at talkpython.fm and I had a good chat just talking about how we have adopted over the course of our careers to being remote, our beginnings in programming, and what we can do to support those who have never worked before adopt to this lifestyle in this time of Coronavirus.

The synopsis for the episode is so perfect that I'm going to share it here:

"Jayson Phillips is a self-proclaimed graduate of the University of Barnes and Noble. This week we talk to Jayson about working for a bootcamp, learning to code, and dig into some fun tech like flutter, Golang, and Rust."

While in the midst of trying to flatten the curve with our shelter-in-place order in California, I was fortunate enough to have 16 bright spots during this time. They are the 16 awesome developers who just completed their final projects in the Full Stack web development cohort I taught at University of Denver!

I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Scott Hanselman on the topic of being a remote employee in a technological function. Scott's being doing this forever, and I've been doing it for a couple of years now, so it was a great exchange of ideas and experiences of what has worked and not worked for us as professional WFHers.

Another year, another update on my remote, travelling setup for work and play...

A couple of weeks ago, we had a good discussion on Twitter around remote work. Here are some tips and guidelines I use personally to keep myself on track as a remote manager for an engineering organization...

I recent begun teaching my 4th full cohort of Full Stack Web Development, this time at the University of Denver’s Coding Bootcamp.

So I had a post where we talked about what was in my bag last year… let’s see how the workflow/travel setup has changed over the last 12+ months!

Today marks my first day back at Trilogy Education Services. And… it was like a “welcome home”, of sorts.

On Friday, I said farewell to the internal team at Trilogy Education Services. As of today, I’m the Engineering Manager of Risk and Fraud for the Consumer group over at Coinbase...

I figured it’d be cool to list out what I typically have on me at any given time as it pertains to development/creative pursuits. It does mix and match depending on what I’m doing, but there’s some standards that are consistent throughout...