When I started learning React in 2018, hooks were not yet a thing. This was very taxing since I was struggling to get a component to render and having to pass props from parent to child added another level of complexity. Fast-forward to 2022 when I start playing in React again and I learn about…
It’s coming up on my first anniversary of being employed as a developer. It’s been a year of a lot of really big changes, but it’s tough to winnow down the focus of the year to being just a developer. I can, however, isolate my first month as a developer and that feels both like a…
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…