Lately, I’ve been trying to level up my JavaScript and React/React Native skills so I’ve been making silly side projects. The past week or so I have been working on a random cat gif app using the Giphy API in an Expo project. Then I was told that not everyone…

Lately I have met some amazing people and companies while interviewing for my next engineering job. I’ve had incredible technical conversations, learned about great teams and had deep diversity conversations with smart enthusiastic people. I’ve had companies tailor interviews that worked best for me (ex: let me show them one…

Why we picked Storybook.js Last May, Major League Soccer launched a greenfield React Native app for soccer fans around the world. We hired a team, built the product, and launched the app into the App store and Google Play store in only 8 months time. The technologies we used along the way (React Native…

It has come to my attention that a lot of developers are heading to Oahu for JSConf Hawai’i in a few weeks and I am very jealous of you lucky, lucky folks. I saw this tweet and knew it needed more ideas. So have no fear! I am here with…

I currently have @ken_wheeler’s latest album, Love Songs for Your Mother streaming through my noise cancelling headphones (An album I tried to hate for awhile but…. 😎). Not only is Ken Wheeler a music making machine (with no filter) and #1 fan of America, he is an incredible Javascript Engineer…

This past year has been a real rollercoaster! From crying in the bathroom stalls in my first week of my coding bootcamp to giving talks at Meetups, it has been filled with many struggles, but HUGE achievements that I never knew I was capable of. I was recently stalking myself…

💡 I get it!I understand GraphQL and most of the magical powers it is capable of. It took a lot of research, tutorials, youtube videos and questions to wrap my head around how it works. The concept never really clicked for me until a random team lunch in the cafeteria…

It’s time for a quick refresher on a few array methods to speed up your coding! Array Method: A method that performs an operation on an array 😂 Why Use an Array Method? Less logic. It’s not only fast, it allows us to write simple code with less bugs in…

Before I started my job at Major League Soccer, I only had one week of React training. Great news when I was about to join a team of React engineers to rebuild their mobile app in React Native, right? Over 6 months have gone by now and I have learned…