Yesterday someone congratulated me on LinkedIn. I can’t believe it has already been five years since I joined the law school.

These days my role has extended beyond web development. I am the go-to guy for most of the design and marketing materials. I am juggling five to six projects at a time ranging from setting up a new site for a new center, laying out an eight-page program for an event, creating banner to recruit students, making landing pages and forms for digital marketing efforts, coding email newsletters to securing the web servers.

My workload can be overwhelming, but the support from my supervisor allow me stay sane. Working full time with three kids is a big challenge, particularly with time management. I deeply appreciate the flexibility that she has given me. In that regard, I don’t think I can find it anywhere else. In return, I do my work whenever necessary—even at three in the morning.

Another rewarding aspect of my work is being around the wonderful colleagues. They always make sure that we have a friendly environment to do our job.

Editorial board:

How else to explain that the Republican Party has nominated a lunatic? The party of Lincoln and Reagan has inexplicably advanced a presidential candidate who is manifestly unqualified to handle sharp objects, let alone be entrusted with the most powerful position on Earth.

But the less said about Trump the better. The very notion that he is on the ballot is an insult to our democracy.

Vote for Hillary Clinton for president.

Editorial board:

Clinton is among the best-prepared candidates ever to seek the presidency, having served eight years in the U.S. Senate and four years as secretary of state… Trump, by contrast, would be the first president in American history with no record of service in either elective office or the military.

Kate Chia writes:

[T]he best thing they ever did for me was to discourage my perfectionist tendencies – indeed, when I was in elementary school, my dad offered to buy me a present if I got a C.

She continues:

I think it was my parents’ lack of emphasis on grades that gave me room to foster my own desire for achievements. I developed a strong work ethic of my own accord, instead of doing it to placate my family.

She concludes:

He gave me two invaluable gifts: the space to cultivate my own desire for excellence, and the healthy psyche to pursue it.

Most Asian parents are tough on their kids. I want to, but I can’t. My wife once told me that she was stressed out because our seven-year-old’s reading level is two out of four and our almost-five-year-old doesn’t even want to recognize the alphabet letters. Her dream of her kids becoming doctors seems to be unlikely. I consoled her that as long as they won’t become criminals or end up in jail, I am fine with whatever they want to be. Yes, I am setting the bar that low and I am glad to see that Mr. Chia had done the same and it worked out for his kid.

Like many beginner’s book on JavaScript, this one offers clear explanation of the basics including data types, conditional statements, and loops, but doesn’t provide practical exercise on how to use them in actual webpages. The only chapter that does that is on DOM scripting; therefore, I don’t find the book to be useful. If you want to learn the basic concepts and then put them to use with step-by-step instructions, I recommend John Pollock’s JavaScript: A Beginner’s Guide instead.

Jane Mayer:

In [Harry] Hurt’s account, Trump was furious that a “scalp reduction” operation he’d undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife’s hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, “with menacing casualness, ‘Does it hurt?’ ” Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure. Hurt said that the incident, which is detailed in Ivana’s deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends.

Quite disturbing.

Editorial board:

We make no apologies for endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. Of the two major candidates and all the minor-leaguers, she is by far the most qualified, most prepared, most thoughtful, most experienced and most deserving of our votes.

Editorial:

Clinton offers our country clear advantages over Trump in every major area where the president must excel, including foreign policy, the economy and social justice.

Editorial:

Vote for Mrs. Clinton because in this election, she alone displays the dignity, the grace, the passion and compassion, the mental acumen, the temperament – and yes, the incredible experience on the national and international level – that will allow America the best opportunity to move forward in how we treat our neighbors here and abroad, and how we will protect ourselves from those neighbors out to not just do us harm, but to destroy our way of life.

Editorial:

In a world and a nation that has historically so cruelly punished women for their gender, it is remarkable that America has finally reached this milestone. And it’s fitting that a woman who has fought so valiantly against that bigotry, for herself and all women, is the one to break through the glass ceiling and become president of the United States. Hillary Clinton has earned your vote.