I started the book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear halfway into 2020. I didn’t get very far last year, but I’m really glad I picked it up for the new year. “Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement” Every January I make resolutions I know I will inevitably break, but…

Code Challenge! — This week was much more difficult to maintain the requisite hour of code than last week and I wonder if it’s because I’m getting tutorial burnout. So one day I spend an hour on Code Wars to get back into the solving code challenges. …

After a full week of setting aside time to work on coding my own projects, here’s what I’ve learned. After the first day, then the second and third day, I started to look forward to coding and learning. I didn’t have a finished application everyday, but I made an attempt…

My New Year’s Resolution — Happy New Year! There are so many things to be grateful for as I look ahead to another year, and coding is definitely one of them. I started 2019 with only a few months of coding skills and ended 2019 with my first job as a full stack developer! I’ve…

For Your Eyes Only — Do you feel naked without a pen and paper? Do you have trouble paying attention to conversations you don’t document? Are you constantly worried about leaving your future self bread crumbs? My friend, you are not alone, you are a serial note-taker. In the digital age, documentation and notes…

The power of the UNDO prevails… — Adventures of breaking code as a junior dev continues!!! I’ve come to embrace this perpetual loop of breaking something and researching ways to fix it, only to find out that I must go back in time and undo my mistakes. Enter git revert. What Did I Do?!! Story time! I learned React at bootcamp…

Anything remotely related to git heightens my anxiety, I don’t know why but there is always this element of the unknown when it comes to git that’s stayed with me from coding boot camp. In an attempt to mitigate my fears, I’ve started chipping away at all the capabilities…

Navigating Between the Client and Server — When I first learned about Ruby on Rails and the finer points of web development, I remember being utterly confused between CRUD, HTTP Verbs and then REST. They were used in sentences interchangeably (or so I thought) and when I looked each up, it all sounded like they were all…

With Tic Tac Toe — If you haven’t read my other entries on how I started this Tic Tac Toe adventure, I’ve included links to the previous blogs at the bottom of this post. This blog entry is all about the Minimax algorithm and how I learned it to build an unbeatable AI in Tic…