My 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…

It 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. Perhaps it’s the pandemic’s ability to distort time, or maybe my ascension into a brilliant role at a…

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…

In 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. We need money to survive…

When 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…

One 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…

I’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…

I’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…

While 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…