It was a mere four weeks ago when I first heard that I might have cancer. In that month I have had more scans, IVs, and various test than I’ve had over the course of my entire life. Finally, the testing is done (except for bloodwork) and we’re moving on to my first treatment: chemo….
I created this blog because I started a new career right when Washington state was closing down for the COVID pandemic. I had an unusual perspective that might be interesting to share. After working towards changing my career for many years, from deciding what I wanted to do next to going back to school to…
I graduated from Lambda School in February 2019, just days before my 40th birthday. I expected to have a new career within a few months, one with a fancy office space and snacks. One year, 143 applications and 9 interviews later I was still searching for my first developer job. Just before my 41st birthday,…
The Mess I’ve Created For a recent interview, I was given the challenge of creating a WordPress plugin. I had only worked with PHP for about a week and I had just gotten WordPress running locally the day before my interview. (I did tell both of these things to the interviewer.) I went through the…