Starting a 100-day coding challenge to build habits, join community, and accelerate progress toward becoming a developer.

Building my first React application: lessons learned from handling complex state, debugging edge cases, and keyboard support.

It has been an exciting two weeks in my web development journey. I’ve made a serious dent in the algorithm challenges since completing my Twitch viewer project. So far I have completed 18 challenges, leaving three advanced algorithm challenges between me and starting my advanced front end projects. These last few algorithms are kicking my butt though, as the difficulty between the intermediate and advanced challenges jumped up the parabolic curve. So far my strategy of stepping away from one challenge and moving to another when I get too frustrated has been paying off. Distance and time has led to some of my best breakthrough moments. Forcing it only pisses me off more, as well as weird looks when I mutter expletives at my computer on public transit. ...

Finding mindfulness and perspective through hiking in the Pacific Northwest’s natural beauty and away from technology.

Launching my most complex JavaScript project yet: building a Twitch viewer with dynamic objects and async API calls.