The Iron Yard announces it is closing.

I just finished my first full week teaching as an Associate Instructor for The Iron Yard Austin. I have been working hard to stay ahead of the lessons, assessments, activities, and projects…

This week has been preparing for my Austin Demo Day for The Iron Yard. The graduating students from the frontend and backend cohorts all gathered at a Capital Factory space on the 16th floor. We set up stations, science fair style, and waited to present our final projects to anybody that walked up…

I have my Austin Demo Day at The Iron Yard on Friday. 4–6:30pm at the Capital Factory, if you’re interested. There are tacos and drinks. All the students take their laptops and a monitor and stand by their table and talk to anyone that will listen about their project. Ideally, we will all walk away with…

What was it like before what you learned, ruined the thing you loved? Before you could see the matrix. I apologize, I rewatched The Matrix the other night.

I took two film classes in college. For a while, it ruined movies for me. Suddenly I could identify miscasting…

I want to go to there.

After teaching elementary school for 10 years, I quit teaching and went to a Front End Engineering bootcamp. My favorite part of education, as a student and as a teacher, has always been technology. Most technology was engaging all on its own to children. But then…