In development, I often find that I have a lot of thoughts I'd like to explore and ideas I'd like to talk about, but late at night on a weekday, I don't have anybody to talk to about development -- unless I want my wife to strangle me in my sleep. For the sake of my marriage (and well-being), I'm going to maintain my thoughts here as a journal.

Who am I?

My name is Ben Harrington and I'm a full-stack developer out of Portland Maine. Not unlike many other developers out there, I got started because I wanted to make video games. Outside of tech, I'm a bowler, snowboarder, semi-retired MMA fighter, and German Shepherd-owner.

Today, I'm a full-stack JS developer working at Defendify. Before this, I did agency work and some freelancing. While it was cool to be exposed to lots of different brands and ideas, I feel like it's much more enjoyable to work on one larger code-base over a long term.

What am I going to post about?

Whatever I run into! It's funny -- I repeatedly hit these points in web development where I've gained a lot of knowledge in some arbitrary span of time, and I think, "Ah, that's it! I finally know my stuff!" and I'm always wrong. I run into new challenges and discover new web development information every day, so it only seems appropriate to start dumping the new information I get into a big bucket.

More specifically, I'm going to write posts about:

Libraries I stumble upon
Useful techniques and patterns for HTML, CSS, and JS
DevOps exploration, tools, etc
Build tools
Frameworks

How long will posts generally be?

There's going to be plenty of variance in post-length, but I'd like to keep them around a five-minute read. If a subject is particularly complicated and I still want to cover the whole thing, I'll try to break it up into a series of five-minute reads.

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