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Why I Deleted Google Analytics From This Blog
Back in 2007... Just kidding. I won't bore you with 2 paragraphs of non-sense for SEO. The truth is I don't care how many people visit this website. I have iterated this website since 2007 and I'm super happy with...
I Am No Longer Accepting Side Work
Update 2022 It's 2022 and you know what that means? Yes, Bryan is focusing on a new framework (a couple of frameworks to be exact). My first love which is Ruby on Rails and my close second Asp.net Core. Both...
Why I Moved To Las Vegas From California
I get asked why Las Vegas? When most non-Vegas locals think about Las Vegas they think about the strip and automatically think all of Las Vegas is like that, but in truth it's not. We first learned about this years...
2020 Sucked
2020 was a rough year. It’s not like 2021 is some magical wand to fix everything but 2021 is a milestone, because in a sense whoever is left behind made it. For those that made it to a new year...
I Lost My Job 2 Days Before Thanksgiving
Yes you heard it right. I lost my job 2 days before Thanksgiving. The company shut down and told me yesterday was my last day. No warning. They just closed their doors. I'm at a loss of words for how...
Long Time No Write
It's been a long time since I posted, but a ton has been going on. First we finally got a house. The first one fell through for reasons I won't explain here but after that 2 month delay that cost...
Getting Out of My Self Isolation Funk
I've been laid off since March 22nd. In order to keep myself busy I've learned Python, Django, did a few Rails projects, and some Laravel stuff, while getting a developer environment setup on my iPad . I've accomplished a ton and...
I’m 40!
Well I have reached the big 4-0. About a week ago my wife and I decided to go to Oregon to be with my in-laws to wait out the Corona Virus. My in-laws are devout Mormons and within the Mormon...
Hello 2020
Well it's official. I have been a web developer for 16 years. I started with HTML and CSS like everyone else and moved into PHP, .Net and Rails. The last year I've focused primarily on Wordpress development. I've worked in...
Goodbye 2019
Goodbye Social I’m not going to apologize for not posting in almost 6 months like I usually do. I’ve taken one of my largest social network sabbaticals ever. I’ve been off Facebook and Instagram for years which isn’t new. The...
Still A Work In Progress
Don't you just hate it when life gets in the way? Well for me it did. bryansiegel.com is still a work in progress. I planned on having everything done by now, but it's not. I'll be working on it as...
Scaling Back
Life feels as though it's moving faster. In our new always-connected world we have the worlds content literally in the palm of our hands. For the last several months my offline conversations generally consist of things are moving into a...
My Stack Fatigue Problem
I have an issue with learning stacks, frameworks and languages because of what the job market looks like. I've had this issue for years. There's not a ton of high paying development jobs where I live. When I started to...
Fixing My Digital Life
My digital life was a mess. There's literally no excuse for my digital life being such as mess.From my too-lazy-to-post blog to my empty-bitbucket-public-repo-fear; I'm a Web Developer for Jedi's sake. I should have a dope online portfolio of dope...
Work, Life and Priorities
So I haven't blogged in awhile. I used to feel guilty for not posting but honestly I don't. I have 3 kids. 2 are in sports and one is old enough to drive. I can honestly say that right now is...
2014 Kicked Ass
I've accomplished allot in 2014. New home, new car, new platform, more sports (for the kids), more frameworks and a new outlook on life. I've cross the t's and dotted all the i's with the tech that I wanted and career...
Catching Up
June was a rough month for me both professionally and personally. I moved and I had allot going on at work. Work pretty much tired me out. But things have sorta calmed down and I'm sorta back but not in...
What In The Hell Is My Job Title?
I'm unique. No I'm not full of myself (or am I jk). This question has plagued me for my whole career. What is my job title? I don't focus on one discipline or technology. Nor do I try to preach...
Super Busy
I doubt that I will write allot this month. I've got a couple of side projects that are taking allot of my time while tackling .Net again. My wife is working again and we're getting ready for another move in...
Screw The Cloud For Development
This post comes out of utter frustration. I feel as though I've wasted 2 weeks with the different platforms out there to only settle on the wrong one. I should have known the cloud is going to fuck me. It...
Unplugged Almost A Year Later
I wrote a couple of articles almost a year ago addressing a problem that I was having. My loss of focus. I was having problems focusing on complex problems in code and noticed that little things such as the TV...
Revisiting .Net
My entry into programming was .Net. Particularly C# and .Net. Weforms was a great way to program. Then came SEO. Weforms and SEO weren't a good mix. So I moved on to PHP. After years of PHP, Ruby on Rails...
The Nansy Pamsy Unicorn & Rainbow Community Phenomena
This blog is for me. It's something else to do. It's not really a hobby, sometimes I feel the urge to write about shit that I like. I'm more active on social networks such as Google+ but I keep this...
Winding Down 2013
In January I got a fantastic job. My boys played multiple sports and my daughter did her first solo with competition dance. I gained my first gray hair a Nexus 7 2013, a Nexus 4 a few Macbooks and X1...
My Trucks Are Turning Into Hybrids
The iPhone changed things. The smartphone has been done before. Badly. The iPhone gave us a window into the future, a future where a computer and touch combine into the Star Trek like future I've only imagined. The iPhone did...
Almost 4 months of no posts on bryansiegel.com
One of my new years resolutions was to post more often. Which started out fine, 2-3 and sometimes even more posts per month but in July everything stopped. In an effort to be a cheap ass I decided to get...
Busy Few Months and My Mobile Platform Decision
I haven't posted in awhile. June/July have been really bad months professionally for me. I've gone through a server crash and numerous issues with things not working at my day job and I've been super busy with my kids activities....
Unplugged and my lessons learned
I wanted to do a follow up post of my experience from unplugging from the internet. While I decided to take a day vs a longer period of time I felt as though my mini experiment was a success, but...
Why I switched from Android To IOS
I've been a happy T-Mobile customer for over 6 years. While your mileage may vary, I've only had 2 issues with data dead zones in the last 6 years. I'm sure there are plenty of other reviews out there, which...
Trying Something New
I read a fantastic article today on Lifehacker on how a guy unplugged completely for 10 days. The moral to his story and my true takeaway was how he gained focus. This is not the first story I've read about someone...