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    • 17 May 2025
    • 5 min read
    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…

    • 15 Aug 2023
    • 1 min read
    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…

    • 17 Aug 2021
    • 1 min read
    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…

    • 11 Jul 2021
    • 1 min read
    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…

    • 1 Feb 2020
    • 2 min read
    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…

    • 23 Nov 2019
    • 1 min read
    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…

    • 21 Oct 2019
    • 1 min read
    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,…

    • 4 Mar 2019
    • 1 min read
    What is the state of JavaScript?

    This JavaScript thing is really catching on eh? As the name suggests, "the state of JavaScript" survey gives a snapshot view of JavaScript…

    • 22 Feb 2019
    • 2 min read
    jQuery

    What is jQuery? jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify front end web development. It is the most widely deployed JavaScript library…

    • 11 Feb 2019
    • 1 min read
    More on issues

    The more you understand an issue the better equipped you'll be to solve it. When I was creating issues in GitHub for Score Keeper, something…