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I've got a confession to make 😭

We don’t have a single test covering our front-end/UI for egghead.io. It’s embarrassing. You know how it is. Testing is a good idea. It’s objectively better than the opposite, which in our case is click testing, twitter notifications, and relying…

how we work at egghead.io in 2018

egghead.io is a platform to empower humans, built to challenge the status quo of how we work and learn new skills. We produce high quality, concise web development screencasts created by expert open-source contributors and other talented…

Living and learning in 2017

Make all the big life changes at once... In 2016 we moved our family of 6 out of our home of 15 years across the country to settle in Vancouver, WA. That's quite a lot of change for everybody involved. My partner lived her entire life in Fort Worth…

Why we hire consultants to help build egghead.io

Over the past few years we have built egghead.io from a relatively simple “video blog” and into a full blown platform for developers to publish their knowledge about software development as screencasts and get paid for it. The process has been…

2016 was amazing. Best year yet.

2016 as a year took a lot of criticism as a year. Beloved celebrities died in a seemingly endless parade of "noooooooo". We were subjected to a painful and divisive US federal election cycle, which resulted in another shameless ass-clown getting…