Considering that yesterday was World Mental Health Day — I’ve been thinking about an interview I had last week and giving deep consideration to a couple of behavioral questions that were asked of me. I’d done so well in behavioral interviews in my recent past that I came in all loose and ready to knock this particular interview out…

I recently attended a presentation by Rahul Pandey and Alex Chiou where they explained why DS&A (data structures and algorithms) practice is important, as well as what to expect as you learn/practice algorithms. (You can find some take aways from that presentation here. I highly recommend connecting with them on…

Pearls of Wisdom I’ve Gleaned From Building My Portfolio Website I thought I’d write something a bit different from my previous blogs. I have so many takeaways from finishing Draft #350 of my portfolio website. (It is and will never be quite as perfect as I’d like.) What follows will…

All about the Git I’ve recently started working with a team at a non-profit organization which has forced me to pay better attention to proper Git work flow. Git add/git commit/git push no longer does the trick when you’re working with others on a project. …

a functional journey — I don’t know about you but I have read many articles trying to make sense of bind/call/apply in React class components and the information is just not sinking in… yet! With this in mind, I am really happy to know that React has been rather swiftly moving away from class…

It’s Math… And It’s Not — What is N + 1? And why is it a problem? I found this question required a bit of a geeky dive. First I felt I needed to understand a little bit more about relational databases and SQL queries. In addition, I needed a basic refresher of ORMs (Object Relational…

A Kickstarter/Guide to Semantic Styling While in Mod 4 at Flatiron, the topic of Material UI vs Semantic UI came up. It was a fleeting reference and I was left writing a Note To Self: “Google Semantic & Material UIs”. (I am continually surprised at the number of terms/tools that…

To $ or Not To $ If you’re like me, when Google searching for help with JavaScript, you’ve come across all kinds of answers involving jQuery. Wait, what? What is jQuery? (And why is JavaScript called “Vanilla JavaScript”?) I thought I would do a little tooling around on the interwebs…

A Beginner’s Guide Welcome to vicarious Flatiron School, Mod/Phase 3! In Mod 3 we take a big left turn from Ruby into JavaScript. In my experience, shifting to JS has been quite an exercise in learning and patience. Ruby is so simple, so straightforward. …