A few years ago I went with a friend to an amusement park, and he challenged me to go on a ride with him called the Ripcord. If you don’t know what this ride is, they attach you to a harness, haul you up between three towers of scaffolding, then…

8 models, a custom written hash for my API, a dynamic form, submitting a nested dynamic object and dynamically creating all the objects from it, authentication with JWT tokens, utilizing hash router as opposed to the standard react router to utilize a single page application through github pages, and so…

I don’t think I’m capable of writing an article about the Javascript Fetch API without making Dad jokes, and referencing cheesy memes, because there are just too many good ones. So brace yourself. We’re about to break down Fetch, Promises, and Json. The first thing to know is that Fetch…

They say if you have no idea what to do when you are decorating a room, pick a piece of furniture and design around it. This is the method I used to pick my project idea for phase 4 of Flatiron’s software development program. Since we were getting into javascript…

Your teachers never straight up tell you, “You’ll never finish that.” They say, “Get the requirements done first.” That should always be your first sign that you probably aren’t going to get everything done you plan. I remember describing my plan to my cohort lead and he gave me the…

I have gotten severe chronic migraines since I was 4yrs old, at least, that is the earliest one I have memory of. I remember camping out in the living room, in my Barney sleeping bag, crying because the pain hurt so bad. My Mom had given me kids Tylenol and…

Go big or go home right? When I started the bootcamp prep program for Flatiron in early September, I did their mini Javascript, and Ruby programs. Since my cohort didn’t start until mid October, I decided to practice by building a Wheel of Fortune game in Repl. Looking at it…

I was raised by crazy people. That’s pretty much what I tell people, it’s the easiest way to describe being raised be people who isolated my sisters and I in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. (That farmhouse was owned by a family friend who was tired of seeing…