Kyle Shevlin

As 2017 comes to an end, I find that I am compelled to write a retrospective on the year. I hope that there might be something useful, valuable, or at the very least, entertaining in these words for you.

It has taken me a few days to gather my thoughts and notes on what I think might be worth mentioning about my year. It would be rather presumptuous of me to assume you'd want to know everything. Therefore, it makes sense to try and distill…

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Saturday, November 11th, marks my fourth year as a professional web developer. It's been a crazy journey. One that has already taken me further than I could have imagined. I wanted to take a moment and write down some of my thoughts about these four years.

Gratitude

The first thing that comes to…

Warning: This is not a technical post. This is an introspective post that you may or may not find useful. Thought you should know.

I have been thinking a lot lately about the future of my career, asking myself many quasi-existential questions. Questions where my life does not depend on their answers…

I want to let everyone know that I am now streaming on Twitch! Not this very moment of course (or maybe, depends when you read this), but at this general period of time.

I've made a channel over on Twitch and a few times a week I am going to do some #livecoding. I'm going to focus mostly on teaching…

I'm going to start this post with what will appear to be a tangent. I assure you, it's not.

My wife, wonderful as she is, is not a very technical person. She is very caring, though, and will often listen to me talk about the technical things I am working on. This often means I need to use metaphors…