Jun 1, 2022The Great Balancing Act — How to Sustain the Pursuance of a Career Change (into Tech)Dr. Eric Thomas once spoke on values in relation to elevating your life- a bite from this particular speech has resonated with me over the past couple years, “If you’re going to go to your next level, your values are going to have to change.” Cognitive dissonance holds no place…Career Change6 min readCareer Change6 min read
Published inTowards Dev·Feb 16, 2022Updating Profile Images Stored on AWS S3 Buckets Using React Frontend and Rails API BackendThis is by far going to be my most comprehensive blog post to date. I’ll be writing this over the span of a few days. …S39 min readS39 min read
Published inTowards Dev·Feb 3, 2022Tricks for Animated Menus Using CSS and ReactYesterday, I was hanging out in a few dev discord channels when someone asked for help in animating a drop down menu. I had implemented several different techniques while building projects, so I was familiar with approaches at obtaining these results. Here, I’m going to share a few of my…CSS2 min readCSS2 min read
Published inTowards Dev·Feb 3, 2022An Outline of Redux ToolkitAt the end of last year, I was tasked with learning Redux. This tool can be a means for cleaning up React applications that become cluttered from passing an abundance of props through components- which can feel strenuously disorganized as an application grows. As I dove into my learnings, it…Redux3 min readRedux3 min read
Published inTowards Dev·Dec 14, 2021Building a Commenting System with Full CRUD using React with RailsAfter scouring the web for a blog that would give me some tips on building a commenting system, and not finding (exactly) what I was looking for, I decided to sit and think… and write… and not type, until I had my approach fully mapped out. …Commenting System5 min readCommenting System5 min read
Nov 17, 2021Ruby Controllers using SinatraMy most recent project has been the first of many to come where I felt able to fully understand the logic of both backend and frontend while building. …Sinatra2 min readSinatra2 min read
Nov 2, 2021params.permit using RoRAlright. Let’s go ahead & give a rundown of one of Rails security features against mass assignment vulnerabilities. We’ll begin by summarizing mass assignment, then explain how RoR params.permit can whitelist specific attributes to safeguard data. Mass assignment is a vulnerability in code that allows a user to modify data…Ror2 min readRor2 min read
Aug 26, 2021Enumerable Methods in RubyReviewing common methods This week I began my journey to learn Ruby. I find it much easier to retain what I learn if I explain/teach/review as I go. …Ruby2 min readRuby2 min read
Aug 14, 2021React Trivia App Using jServiceAbout 3 months into my course, and its time for project number 2. I decided to build a trivia application using an API called jService. You can find the documentation here. I began by mapping out the component tree, then spending time outlining the logic of the application. My component…Jservice3 min readJservice3 min read
Jul 14, 2021Implementing the useState Hook in ReactReact hooks have all but made react class components obsolete. Hooks provide useful features, and in the case of useState, allow for us to access state in a function component. The useState hook appears in the form of a destructured array that contains state and a function setState to update…React1 min readReact1 min read
