In preparing for the dive into a full MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) app, I started out with a tutorial for the full stack. …

This week I wrapped up my first round of Node tutorials. …

This week I’d like to take a step back and offer a bit of a mission statement for how this blog will function moving forward. Based on a not-so-comprehensive (but surely algorithmic) review of articles referred to me by Medium dot com over the past few months, it seems like…

As we all know, the majority of time programming is spent in the error zone. And this isn’t a bad thing. Indeed, under the aegis of Test-Driven Development (TDD), errors aren’t problems, per se, so much as pathways to solutions. For beginning programmers in particular, though, solving errors can sometimes…

While making my first fully functional CLI project, I was struck by two simultaneous, but widely divergent feelings: This was deeply, rapturously magical. This was deeply, mundanely mechanical. To be clear, experiencing simultaneous, but widely divergent feelings is just kind of where I like to hang out. And I think…

Like many people, I’ve found myself with a lot of time to reflect over the last few months. While the challenges posed by the COVID Crisis have been daunting, I’ve also been grateful for some of what I’ve learned about myself in the face of those difficulties. It’s perhaps unsurprising…