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One Year Later: Building From the Inside Out
A year ago, everything was loud. A life-changing health condition. A recent big career change. Meds that messed with my body and my mood. And under all of it, a quiet but relentless question: “Can I actually do this?” I still don’t know,…
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Recent writing from the archive, with a bit more visual rhythm than before.
- The Hard Part: Navigating Emotional Turmoil
I’ve just finished reading “The Life of Dai” and highly recommend it. This book beautifully captures the experience of going through a health crisis…
- A Surreal Journey: From Head Rushes to Heart Surgery
So, this post is a bit different from the norm, but I think it will do me good to write it, so here we are. April 18th, 2024, was a bit of a "game…
- Ternary! ☘️
If you find yourself with a conditional in the form on an if else, there's a more concise way of writing it. Say hello to a ternary. Take this code:…
- Mutation === 💩
One of the many things I've picked up from the excellent Syntax podcast over the years is mutation should be avoided. Today a came across a great…
- Protecting myself from myself 🔒
Being the lone developer on a personal project makes it really easy to do sloppy things. For example, doing undisciplined things with my git repo,…
- Taking the month off
After I completed the full stack web dev boot camp (see my final project code) I decided to give myself a month off studying software development to…
- Sponsor me!
Did you know you can sponsor my study and contributions to open source projects? If I had my way that's how I'd spend all my professionally time, but…
- MongoDB and macOS Catalina
Like a good Apple nerd, I updated to the latest version of macOS Catalina. If you're using older 32bit apps Catalina won't run them. Thankfully, I…
- Coding on a plane... on an iPad
The project In my ongoing efforts to up my development game, I’m currently working on learning how to create an app that has user authentication.…
