I’m very proud that my post was featured on ThePracticalDev‘s twitter account! I’ve followed this dev community since the very beginning and have loved to see it grow over the years. They have built a great community of developers who inspire me to keep on going.
Quarantine has been a crazy ride of ups and downs for me these past few months. I accept the fact that I’m human and go through all the feelings that we do. I’m currently on an upswing, feeling good, and the creative part of my brain is bugging me to learn something new. I’ve decided […]
Recently I’ve been asked a couple of times where someone can learn how to code. It all depends on what you’d like to do! For me, I had a tech background so was interested in the full stack. From front end–design, UI, how the website looks and feels, as well as the backend–how the website […]
I’ve seen a few developers on Twitch create their own blog or CMS for their portfolio as as a part of the portfolio itself. For my professional site, I’ve decided that since I wanted to play around with React, yet still have a professional blog with information on what I’m learning about, using Gatsby would […]
I wanted to show the terminal setup I use for my dev environment. I have the same setup whether I’m on Mac or linux (Ubuntu) – but below is the setup I like to use on my Macbook Pro. iTerm2 Instead of using the default terminal that’s built into MacOS, I love to use iTerm2. […]
This year I had a goal to finally complete Hacktoberfest, which is an online hackathon where you contribute to open source projects. In the beginning of October, I reached out to my various discord coding communities for some project contribution ideas and was able to complete 4 small pull requests! The simple projects I did […]
Lately I’ve been on this kick of going back to the days before social media. Partly because of my break from live streaming, discord and Instagram, and partly because I still like the old school way of doing things sometimes – the early 2000’s were my peak IRC chat/linux days, so it left me feeling […]
At my current job we always need to get a particular piece of information daily and post it to a slack channel. It only takes about ten minutes…but why even take ten minutes when it can take less than one? After all, the essence of being a developer is about working efficiently (and with my […]