Tomorrow's Ember is not what you think Prelude This is part two of a multi-part series responding to the call for #EmberJS2018 blog posts. In part one I discussed the current state of Ember and what's coming soon (this year). If you haven't read that yet, you should read that first. I ended that last post with a question that I will begin to answer here: What can we do as an ecosystem, as a community, as a team to build an technology stack that is happy, productive, easy, and performant? #EmberJS2018 The call for blog post was meant for exploration of the unknowns. There is a vast universe of…
Today's Ember is not what you think either Prelude In considering the call for #EmberJS2018 blog posts, I wondered whether I should add my voice. The past two years I have been blessed to work alongside a deep bench of core-team members and regular contributors to the community. During this time, most of my open-source contributions have been towards one of the core projects (#emberData) and helping to set its direction. I mention this because in a lot of ways I have felt that I am too invested and too close to the project to write one of these posts. In addition to giving the community a gre…
The passage of time is enigmatic: even when seemingly bubbling past a slow happy brook it is truly a river surging quickly towards the ocean. These past few months, an idea for a new blog post has been filtering in and out of the forefront of my mind, slowly being massaged by my subconsious into something more worth sharing. Like a slow happy brook, bubbling quietly towards a larger stream. Here, these months later, having found that much time has passed with scarce a blink, I suddenly find myself adrift in an ocean. How did I get here? Step into this boat, dear reader, and allow me to revisi…
Some people call these race reports. I call them post-mortems. Why? Cause usually I end up writing one when I didn't achieve a goal and I want to diagnose "why". This year's goal for DVT was aggressive: run a 2:45:00 and set the course record (currently the course record is ~ a 2:56, the faster times on ultra-signup are from the DV road marathon). DVT is a course that I believe takes a solid 20min off of whatever shape you are in, so right off the bat this goal meant that I was targeting 2:25:00 marathon conditioning. My final time was a 3:05:00. Not a course record and a solid 20mi…
How I learned to quiet self-doubt and build consistency. I want to tell you a story about myself, and through the process, describe how I've come to use consistency to avoid disappointment, kill doubt, fight depression, and reduce burnout. July 2013: Eight months after suffering a minor stress fracture in my foot brought on by experimentation with "toe shoes" and more likely low calcium intake and way too much Gangnam Style, my running was hitting stride again. Again. I've come to despise that word. My running story goes way back. Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of runn…
