Apr 18, 2022The Matrix: You’ll Have to See It for Yourself.How my brain opened up a to understand matrix logic. I also know Kung Fu.1 min read1 min read
Apr 11, 2022Creating a Portfolio to Reflect YOUTo find your perfect gig, you need to show the world who you are. Prior to the end of 2020, I hadn’t written a line of code, save making those circles on the Apple 2E in grade school. (I’m old. Deal with it.) Since I completed my certification, and the…2 min read2 min read
Apr 3, 2022JavaScript Soundboardpart of the #JavaScript30 challenge I’m super thankful for the #JavaScript30 challenge. It’s letting me build some fun, useful apps and have served as a springboard for some potential other uses. The concept is simple, create a div element that pertains to a specific key on the keyboard, and assign…4 min read4 min read
Mar 28, 2022Longest Common PrefixTo loop or not to loop. When navigating through LeetCode, there a few battles that wage on. Mainly, the “just make it work” vs. “how clean and simple can I make this?”. I struggle with the former when I try t adhere to the latter. Somewhere along the way, I…4 min read4 min read
Mar 15, 2022(Sliding) Windows: Part 1 — Fixed Window, Maximum Sum[array, window size]— Just trying to figure it all out. After I graduated from my Flatiron, the real real challenges began: figuring out all these algorithms and data structures to help you land that perfect job(or that gets you closer to your perfect job). One such algorithm was the sliding window. Consider this scenario: Using a given array of elements…4 min read4 min read
Jan 2, 2022What the THUNK? Using and understanding Thunk in your React/Redux app.When I was just a wee programmer 14 months ago, making some Ruby code work correctly made me feel like king of the world. It’s laughable to think how much was to come down the pike and the challenges I’d face, (and will continue to down the line!). One such…4 min read4 min read
Dec 16, 2021Creating a “real-time” search engine in React/Redux using Hooks (without a Submit button).As I’ve been working through my coding boot camp, I have always been leery of being asked to create a search function. For whatever reason -be it Ruby, Rails, or JavaScript, I was always trepidatious about coding one. Until now. I’m going to show you how to create a real-time…4 min read4 min read
Sep 27, 2021JavaScript for Beginning Beginners and Creating Your First JS App with Rails API. () => {(key info to share during my torrid affair with learning javascript. twice.) Most people won’t come into Javascript with a prior knowledge of Ruby on Rails. I did, and that made some of the transitions helpful, especially with making analogies along the way. But even for someone where some of…5 min read5 min read
May 10, 2021Rails 6: Resources All The Way Down(What I learned from triple nesting resources.) Two of the major skills that were highlighted during the Phase 3/Rails session at FlatIron were nested resources and understanding scope methods. I’d like to share my process— and it may serve as a learning tool or a creepy campfire tale of questionable…4 min read4 min read
Mar 8, 2021Keeping CRUDités from getting cruddy. (Secret?: lots of REST)The struggle is real. As a teacher, I was pretty lucky to do my job remotely for the last 8 months, giving me some extra hours each day to focus on my Flatiron studies. But right around when Phase 2 started, I started going back to the school to teach…Sinatra5 min readSinatra5 min read
