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React JS Foundations – 5 years and 100,000 miles in the making

React JS Foundations – 5 years and 100,000 miles in the making

ReactJS (also known as React) is what powers many of the most popular web sites — including Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit, and the New York Times. It provides a way for web developers to make reactive sites, meaning that they

Chris Minnick November 27, 2021November 27, 2021 Articles Read more

Choose Your Own Coding Adventure

Choose Your Own Coding Adventure

Since we’ve started writing books for kids, we’ve seen and heard from hundreds of our readers that they “love” our books, or that they’re having “fun” with our books. These aren’t words that you typically hear adults say about computer

Chris Minnick September 1, 2019September 6, 2019 Articles Read more

You Already Understand Search Engine Marketing

You Already Understand Search Engine Marketing

There’s a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about the purpose and inner workings of search engines. Often, web designers and marketers focus on trying to figure out the algorithms that Google uses or trying to get high rankings for high-value

Chris Minnick September 4, 2019September 4, 2019 Articles Read more

Can You Fail Your Way To Success?

Some years ago, the idea that “failure is your friend” gained some traction after someone very much like me who had failed in the tech industry numerous times made it a popular mantra. A conference called “FailCon” was started and

Chris Minnick May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 Articles Read more

Take the Slow Boat to Success

Take the Slow Boat to Success

Our society values instant success almost to the exclusion of everything else. Most of the stories of success that we hear and that so many people aspire to involve people being “discovered” or otherwise becoming super-rich (and maybe famous) overnight. But, these

Chris Minnick June 17, 2017October 30, 2018 Articles Read more

Is Speed Reading Real?

Is Speed Reading Real?

A recent NY Times article cited numerous studies that have found speed reading to be nothing more than skimming. According to the article, it is improbable to increase your reading above 500-600 words per minute without decreasing comprehension of the material.

Chris Minnick October 17, 2016October 30, 2018 Articles Read more

Avoid the Comfort Zone

Avoid the Comfort Zone

We’re hard-wired to feel fear or even panic when confronted with difficult or threatening situations. These are the remnants of evolution, and it’s only in the last couple of hundred of years that these reactions have become frequently irrelevant and sometimes

Chris Minnick October 11, 2016October 30, 2018 Articles Read more

How to Be a Professional Writer

How to Be a Professional Writer

The best advice for anyone who’s aspiring to be a writer is this: “Stop aspiring and start writing.” –Alan W. Watts The second best advice is this: “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” –Lisa

Chris Minnick October 9, 2016October 30, 2018 Articles Read more

What Coding Has Taught Us.

What Coding Has Taught Us.

To many people who have never done it, computer programming, aka “coding”, seems like a magical and impossible task. Any time we release a new book, video, or class about programming, we hear the all too familiar groans: “I could

Chris Minnick April 11, 2016October 30, 2018 Articles Read more

Take action towards your next success!

Take action towards your next success!

Garry Shandling, the comedian who died recently, got his first big break in 1981 as a guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. After this appearance, he told his agent that appearing on The Tonight Show was great, but

Chris Minnick April 11, 2016October 30, 2018 Articles Read more
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