I have been playing guitar since I was nine years old. After a year or two of lazily plunking out half-muted chords and tuneless renditions of public domain folk songs, everything started to click, and soon thereafter I started devouring anything and everything that could make me a better guitarist…

I have been a movie obsessive since I was a ten-year-old kid watching Luke Skywalker cross lightsabers with Darth Vader in an old, beat-up VHS copy of The Empire Strikes Back. So when it came time to build a web app using React and Redux, I decided to dedicate it…

In the course of building out my Ruby on Rails and JavaScript projects for the Flatiron School’s Software Engineering program, I took extra care in crafting every single piece of data that went into my database seed file myself. Part of this was due to my own excessive fastidiousness, but…

Ever since I was a kid I’ve had a love and affinity for trivia. Building my repository of utterly useless knowledge over the course of my life has always been a point of pride. Therefore it’s a given that I am a massive JEOPARDY fan. …

Apologies for beginning this otherwise innocuous programming post with something so heavy, but for millions — potentially billions — of people across the world, it has been exceedingly difficult to navigate the pandemic-era landscape we find ourselves still mired in. The world is changing so rapidly around us, and many…

Tasked with having to build a simple web app using Sinatra and ActiveRecord, I found myself pacing my living room on a rainy Saturday morning trying to dream up the perfect concept. What would meet all of the requirements of the project — namely M.V.C. architecture, a working database, has_many/belongs_to…

––republished from an old blog that got nuked–– It all began with a problem that has plagued me ever since I first signed up for a Netflix account: I am fundamentally incapable of choosing a movie to watch. This problem always manifests with the same thought, a note of hope…