I am a full time web developer but having been an artist my whole life, I am looking to branch out more into graphic design professionally. At work, I do mostly Angular with C#/.Net Core on newer projects. I`m newer to Angular, so I`m still learning, but I feel like I`m getting better with each Medium article and StackOverflow post I read, so that`s something. I`m pretty sure that our other dev who works in the Angular project wishes I`d quit reorganizing the project as I learn more, but that is an unfortunate side effect of learning how things were done wrong when the project was built by my predecessor. I handle most of my team`s front end work, since it`s kind of my wheelhouse. I`m very comfortable with CSS, and I`ve learned to love SASS. I work a lot with Bootstrap, and my biggest setback in this department is the fact that I don`t have direct access to our CDN. I`m working on that. While front end is my comfort zone, I`m still a full stack developer, and I`ve learned a lot over the last year or two. My SQL skills are still negligible compared to our back-end focused devs, but I can do an inner join without having to check a sticky note cheat sheet on my monitor, so that`s progress. In my spare time, I`m trying to teach myself more about design. I have found that while I have the eye for it, I don`t have the knowledge base yet. My newest discoveries were the meanings of words like kerning and microframing, which kept popping up in articles. Basically, I`m constantly learning. My reading list is constantly growing, and recommendations are always welcome! Finished: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Problems to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter Current Audiobook: The Toyota Kata: Managing People For Improvement, Adaptiveness, and Superior Results Next Up: The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations Current Book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Next Up: Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow I`m always looking for new sources of information as I try to learn how to do a better job of improving myself, my code, and my team. Please feel free to reach out! Kate
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