When I started coding, I put a huge onus on what language I would start with, which was pretty misguided retrospectively. I say this because there’s so much conceptual overlap between languages that learning abstractions via any language provides a path to many others. My software engineering bootcamp experience had…

I was stagnating a bit in my mid to late 20s, which was bad enough on its own, but compounding my negative feelings were the conversations I was having with older people whom I respected that had negative undertones regarding my place in society when I turned 30 years old…

The hardest thing about trying anything new is getting started. In certain instances, how to begin a new endeavor is clear cut, or there are only a few paths in. You want to hike the entire Appalachian Trail? You start in Maine or in Georgia. You want to watch every…

I’ll begin this blog post by sharing the technical definition of a Javascript closure: “…a closure gives you access to an outer function’s scope from an inner function.”* If you don’t want to read Part 1, that’s entirely your prerogative; it’s not obligatory to understand this post. To the code! …

Years ago, as a young adult, one of the more frustrating aspects of my personality was that I was dreadful at being responsive to texts and calls. This behavior resulted in missed events, unhappy friends, and the general consensus that I lacked responsibility. After long periods of being “off the…