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Hi, I'm Dustin LeBlanc

I'm a web developer with over a decade of experience working with Drupal, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, NodeJS, Docker, VueJS, and more.

I write and speak about web development, ADHD, and business.

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By dustin, 21 November, 2023

The Right Type of Independence

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A sparkler held up the night sky. Tight cropped to just the fingers and sparks
Photo by Stephanie McCabe on Unsplash

Today I want to talk a bit about the multiple meanings of independence. I'm going to focus a bit on trying to navigate different forms of independence that I've grown to recognize as healthy and good in life and career, and some forms that I'm increasingly seeing as toxic. I'm also going to daydream a bit about the future.

But first, where have I been???

It's been nine-ish months since I wrote on this blog. Sorry about that, I've got good reasons. 

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  • Drupal
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Community
By dustin, 31 January, 2023

Confession: I Am Addicted to Fiddling With Tech

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Sign that reads "Next in line for Confession"
Photo by Shalone Cason on Unsplash

A few days ago, despite recently extolling the virtues of my return to Drupal and my related desire to stop screwing around with 'experimental' tech, and just use the things I know, I started fiddling with replacing this website's front-end with a decoupled NextJS site.

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  • confession
  • Drupal
  • NextJS
By dustin, 23 January, 2023

Reflections and Coming Home Again (to Drupal)

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Person standing on a hill overlooking natural scene
Photo by Colton Duke on Unsplash

I've been a Drupal developer for nearly the entirety of my professional web development career, spanning the last decade. Ironically though, since I first published my own personal website, I don't think I've run it on Drupal for any significant amount of time. 

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  • Drupal
  • Laravel
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Stress
By dustin, 17 January, 2023

Nothing is Almost Always an Option

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Hammocks at sunset
Photo by Chris Thompson on Unsplash

Decide, move, do something. We have to figure out how to solve this problem. There has to be a way to make this work, we have to deliver on what was asked.

Except, we don't always have to do that.

Far too often we forget what might be the best option at the current moment, and that is simply to do nothing.

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  • Thoughts
By dustin, 10 January, 2023

Quick Note on VR

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View of the lenses on an Oculus Quest headset
Photo by James Yarema on Unsplash

Couple of weeks into full Quest 2 ownership, I was not expecting to like doing VR stuff quite this much. I have been into sim racing (mostly Dirt Rally) for a few years now and wanted to take that experience to the next level, but honestly, I am spending more and more time using the other experiences. It is surprisingly fun, despite the draw backs of the hardware. I’ve been getting stuck staying up late doing weird crap like pretending to be a motorsport mechanic in the game Wrench, changing people’s oil, coolant, transmission fluid and tires.

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  • Virtual Reality

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