Achievement Unlocked!
I’m happy to report that I accepted my first full stack web developer position and have been working remotely full time for almost two months! 🤩🎉 I’m part of...
Recent Posts
Tinkering
After launching worldschoolingpopups.com in early March, I’ve been keeping busy by revisiting some older portfolio projects and learning new tech. I’m in the...
I’m not REST-ing, I’m building APIs
In between applying for jobs, I’ve been building a full stack, real world web application. 😃 It’s a worldwide listing of worldschooling pop ups, or events. W...
Carrying on with Node.js
Last week I started applying for developer positions. 🙌 There are so many out there! The employment situation looks very promising and I definitely feel tha...
Job ready
I’m ready! After investing muchas time and energy in learning front-end JavaScript, I’ve built a nice portfolio to demonstrate my skills and what I have to o...
Production delays
I’ve basically completed my Twitter clone – it’s fully functional in development mode. 😃 Besides tweeting, liking, and retweeting, it fetches recent webdev t...
Committing to open source
One of the coolest parts about software development is being able to contribute my time and skills to open source projects. What’s an open source project? Ba...
Reactions to React
I started learning ⚛️ ReactJS recently. It’s a pretty big deal in the modern web development scene! It is pretty cool, I like the idea of components and thei...
Unit testing with Jest
I’ve been working on developing the classic game of Battleship in plain JavaScript. Part of the assignment (which you can read about here) is using Test-Driv...
Having fun with APIs
I finished up a fun ☀️ weather app yesterday! I wrote asynchronous JavaScript functions as well as fetch, await, try, and catch to make it all work.
Understanding JavaScript
I was just reflecting on how much I’ve learned. Things have been much easier now than when I began. 😅 NGL, the first few months were tough. But through the p...
Modules, IIFEs, factory functions
Still truckin’ along! Currently working on a To-Do List app. After spending a few days writing code in JavaScript and CSS to render the main page and the inp...
Progress
🙌 Alright, I’m pretty stoked to be moving past my HTML/CSS/JS Tic-Tac-Toe project! You can play it here on GitHub. I will say that I’ve developed a lot bette...
Mush
I think my brain has gone to mush today. 🧠 The last few days, I’ve been making good progress with my Tic-Tac-Toe project and our game jam. I’m feeling much m...
Game jam
👾 I’m participating in my first game jam! What’s a game jam? It’s a team contest where the participants try to make a video game from scratch. This particula...
Bit by bit
I’m trying to make time to code something everyday. Usually I have a project to work on but sometimes I don’t want to think too hard so I’ll just do a few co...
Getting side-tracked
The world of programming is big. It’s very easy to question your path and wonder if there’s a better alternative. Earlier this week, I began having doubts ab...
Tales from my programming past
Looking back, I admit that I was a bit of a computer nerd as a kid. I think I may have been obsessed with computers and computer games. I did a lot of progra...
My current roadmap
I’m new to web development, but where am I going? 🧭 Yes, I do have some idea. I’m following The Odin Project curriculum, which focuses on full stack web deve...
Ready, set, launch!
Welcome! 👋 I’m Russell. Fantastic news! If you’re reading this, it means I’ve succeeded in coding my first post on Jekyll! What’s Jekyll? It’s a static site ...