PinnedA Year in ProductI’ve been at Health Note almost an entire year, and it’s wild to think how far I’ve come. The company has grown in parallel with me so I feel especially aligned to my surroundings. Aaron Rau saw skills in me that I hadn’t discovered yet — I’m truly grateful to…Product2 min readProduct2 min read
PinnedGrowin’ Up WriteMy dad’s friends were all writers. They spoke in memes before memes existed. Their interactions became the baseline for my language — I absorbed banter, nicknames and puns before I voiced my first words. It only makes sense that I’m a writer. When I was born, Teddy Allen wrote a…Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
PinnedWhat makes a Mid-Level EngineerIt seems like eons have passed since I was in bootcamp at Flatiron School, bumbling my way through my command line project and hanging on for dear life in my career pivot. …Software Engineering5 min readSoftware Engineering5 min read
Jul 25, 2022What’s the perfect job?I thought a lot over the weekend about what I want out of my career. That ubiquitous question about “where you see yourself in five years” got me wondering if I have created a path for myself, or if I am just going with the flow day-to-day. This experiment started…Work Life Balance3 min readWork Life Balance3 min read
Jul 15, 2022Volunteering — Returning the FavorIn the spirit of full disclosure, I’m going to talk about money a bit. It’s faux pas, especially in the professional blogosphere, but it is the crux of why we’re networking, why we work — the clear motivation for why we do what we do. …Mutual Aid3 min readMutual Aid3 min read
Jan 27, 2021Good FeedbackWhen I have a chance to decompress and look back at the past week retrospectively, I’m able to see ever so incrementally how progress is being made. It took a few attempts, but once I made a proper change to my cover letter, the interview requests really took off. Perhaps…Programming2 min readProgramming2 min read
Jan 13, 2021REACT / REDUX and North LA Scout — Volunteer workOne of the most impactful achievements of my career has been my #volunteer work in Louisiana the past two years. I leveraged my time as a #Division1 #athlete and #coach to help high school kids in #Louisiana get scholarships and connected with universities. In my spare time, I go around…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Jan 5, 2021Data StructuresI’ve begun work in the world of understanding and comprehending data structures and algorithms. As a budding developer, I find this work rewarding as well as exhausting, necessary though perhaps I’m diving in a little too deep considering the work I’ll be doing. I’m learning about time complexity, and it’s…Programming2 min readProgramming2 min read
Dec 29, 2020Finally: My final project is responsiveI’ve gone back and forth on this. Last week, I talked about how I was going to completely rebuild my final project that I finished a few weeks ago at Flatiron — Code Wanderer . Turns out, I could retroactively make it mobile responsive. Whacking through thousands of lines…100 Daysofcode3 min read100 Daysofcode3 min read
Dec 23, 2020Re-Doing my final projectWhile my final project for Flatiron is sleek on first glance, it resembles Cyberpunk 2077 in that it only looks great in the best circumstances. My project Code Wanderer is a React / Redux resource hub for new programmers. It lets users add resources like .PDFs and memes about programming…React3 min readReact3 min read
