After such a negative reaction to the Kiwanis website, I wanted to see if we could improve it — I received a scathing comment about the Kiwanis website I linked in a CodeX post, and that comment should probably not be discussed ad nauseam…I believe I have written no fewer than five separate blog posts in response to it, mostly just about community guidelines, constructive criticism, and that sort…

How websites like HackerNoon, FreeCodeCamp, and TechInterviewHandbook provide free content that rivals that of paid resources — I wrote an article on FreeCodeCamp called Coding Interview Prep — Free Resources to Help You Ace Your Interviews…to be completely clear, that’s what the EDITOR called it. The title may leave the reader with the false impression that I am some sort of algorithms expert, which I certainly am…

Addressing a Medium user — Blog posts about GRPC/Google Protocol Buffers, Splunk, Python…put all of that on hold, I need to address a rude comment I received on “We Need HTML.” I don’t really want to engage in a comment dialogue, since users like this tend to usually just leave something scathing and then get…

“If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to center a <div>?” — One of the people (Javier Alvarado) I met at a FreeCodeCamp meetup launched a paid tutorial website called SimpleDev — I have not checked out the HTML section, but he gave a short talk on it. One of the things I learned about was the Live Preview extension in VSCode…

Every day, I am truly humbled by my three Medium blogs and the happiness they bring me. Blogging is, without question, the greatest invention in the history of humanity (with agriculture running a close second). …

I made a simple Vue.js application that used SWAPI — I submitted a Vue.js application as part of a challenge, and it did not go well — the reviewers had issues, which they documented fairly well in an email. I got two things out of this — their feedback, and some code that I can actually talk about in my…

GitConnected published an article so blatantly inaccurate that it made me question the entire platform — This website is, first and foremost, a social media blogging site…it is easy to forget that, thanks to the WYSIWYG editor, or how adding pictures, quotes, and hyperlinks to a post makes it seem less like a blog post and more like an article. I wish I could call myself…

How coding assessments attempt to gamify the hiring process — The most popular article on this blog is, of all things, something I wrote about the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. I like chess, and was particularly attached to it when I was younger. …

In my previous post I discussed the differences between top-down learning and bottom-up learning — top-down and bottom-up are real academic terms taught in computer science classes, but top-down learning is kind of just something I made up to describe how we teach coding/computer science. I noticed that my college…