Carl Setzer

I'm not dead! For a couple of years, I've been focusing my blogging on my WordPress site, www.CarlSetzer.com . Please come on over and check out what I've been doing over there. Subscribing and following would also be awesome.

  One of my favorite bloggers, Pooja over at Life's Fine Wine had a great post today: A VERY HAPPY APRIL TO EVERYONE . One thing she mentioned was getting a vegan cake for her birthday. Years ago, one of my team members who I was the admin, mentioned that he never ate any of the cakes I'd bought for the team celebrations. His commitment to his vegan principles was that important. So, for his next birthday, I made it a point to track down a vegan cake. Seattle had some vegan options, but they were pretty....inferior. I was not going to settle! I finally found a GREAT vegan bakery, with a carrot cake that even non-vegans loved. My friend was delighted; he appreciated that we valued him enough to do this. I was quite proud of it. 

I've been working on a Udemy course to continue to grow my web developer skills. This one is the 50 Projects In 50 Days, and yesterday I tackled the “Double Click Heart” project. This one counts the number of times you click on the featured image, along with a little heart animation. What impressed me the most on this one was seeing how the heart animation was mostly CSS. It’s also nice to feel my understanding of JavaScript settle in deeper. I feel motivated to finish this course. Now I’m past the halfway point and have blocked time to get this finished, I’m starting to wonder what I want to do next. There’s so much more I want to learn that choosing a path is challenging. Do I go deeper still into vanilla web development? Do I explore Angular or React? Or do I go a different direction and look to Python? I’ll write about that as I hash it out! Also, I’m looking for a new role. Ideally, one that utilizes my tech skill set. However, it seems that more people want to talk to me...