Negotiating an offer: An unreasonable number of reasonable requests
When you get a job offer, it needs to makes sense for you. When it doesn't, you need to know what requests you can make to change things.
Lessons Learned
A collection of 5 issues
Hosting a Wordpress blog on Digital Ocean
I’ve been running Kenst.com since 2009. While the content has changed over time, the site has remained a blog. Kenst.com has gone from self-hosted on a Windows Home Server in my living room, to Blogger, and ultimately to WordPress. It’s been migrated to and from so
I like working from home... 🏠
I like working from home… but it feels different now.
Clarification: I like working from home, when it’s my choice.
My ideal work/life choice would involve: splitting the week into 2 or 3 days of in-office and from-home work. The extrovert in me would get to talk to
Lessons Learned from the Contributing to GitHub is For You Workshop
On April 11, 2018 I gave a workshop called Contributing to GitHub is For You is For You (abbreviated as C2GI4U) in Des Moines, IA to the Des Monies Area Quality Assurance Association (abbrevitated as DAQAA). Roughly 36 people signed up for the DAQAA event meetup and of those about
Being a Distributed Tester was hard
As a new father, being able to work a few days per week from home has been a great way to help adjust to our wonderful new addition and the demands that go along with him. Days in the office are great for face time and collaboration and days at