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I Built a Tinder for Restaurants App — Here Are Some Web Development Techniques I Learned

Finding food that matches you should be easy. Right? — This week, I aimed to solve the age-old question: Where should I eat? Along the way, I learned three important tips about web development that I will carry with me to everything else I decide to make. I’ll first talk about the app I made to give you some context…

Programming

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I Built a Tinder for Restaurants App — Here Are Some Web Development Techniques I Learned

Programming

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Creating a Full-fledged Spotify Playlist Generator

Seamless transitions from one song’s vibe to another — Recently, I’ve wanted to better understand how APIs work. I’ve used some simple ones that will generate random colors for you, or give you a random dog fact (did you know that perky-eared dogs hear sounds better than floppy-eared dogs?). …

Programming

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Creating a Full-fledged Spotify Playlist Generator

Programming

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Published in Better Programming

·Jul 11, 2022

I Made an Automatic Color Theme Generator for Tailwind CSS

It takes less than a minute to have a palette generated — I have recently been obsessed with the T3 stack (Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Prisma, and tRPC). As part of that I have been using Tailwind CSS to quickly layout the format of every project I have been working on for the past month. …

Web Development

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I Made an Automatic Color Theme Generator for Tailwind CSS

Web Development

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Published in The Startup

·May 30, 2022

How I created a Responsive Personal Portfolio Website with Next.js

Almost two years ago, I created my first website using HTML, CSS, and Python. Now, I’ve reinvented it using a modern and robust front-end development framework known as Next.js. For the past week, I have been developing it and now I’m proud to present www.jordantwells.com. I created the first website…

Web Development

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How I created a Responsive Personal Portfolio Website with Next.js

Web Development

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Published in The Startup

·Apr 28, 2022

How I learned JavaScript basics in a couple days by making a Chrome Extension

Anytime a website does something complicated and cool, like changing, its probably JavaScript. It’s the language of the Web, so if you want to make anything that’ll go on the internet, you’ve got to go through JavaScript first. Initially, I wanted to level-up my web development skills to help out…

Programming

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How I learned JavaScript in a day by making a Chrome Extension

Programming

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 21, 2020

A Guide to Serving Up Matplotlib Visualizations Two Ways

How to utilize both sides of Matplotlib to create complex data visualizations. What is Matplotlib? Matplotlib is the definitive tool for creating data visualizations of all types in Python. Whether its a simple bar chart or a complex interactive scatterplot, Matplotlib has a diverse range of functionality. Inspired by MATLAB, it takes a…

Data Science

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A Guide to Serving Up Matplotlib Visualizations Two Ways

Data Science

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 17, 2020

A Practical Guide to Pandas

What is Pandas? Pandas is an open-source data analysis and manipulation tool for Python. The name? It comes from the econometrics term “panel data”, which is multi-dimensional data with measurements over time. It’s also pretty cute so that’s a bonus! At its core, it allows us to easily use spreadsheet-like data. From there…

Programming

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Programming

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 14, 2020

A Deep Dive Into NumPy

Why the humble array is the foundation of Data Science — What is NumPy? NumPy is an open-source Python library which is at the core of several of the science, engineering, and technology efforts you’ve heard of. Don’t believe me? Remember that black hole image? NumPy. Remember whenever scientists confirmed Einstein’s century-old prediction by detecting gravitational waves? NumPy. Machine Learning? You already know.

Python

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Python

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 8, 2020

What Is the Difference Between a Module, a Package, a Library, and a Dependency?

When I first began programming, I thought you had to do everything by scratch. Do you want to scrap some text off a website? You’ve gotta build it. Do you want to create a table? You’ve gotta build it. Do you want to do machine learning? …

Python

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What Is the Difference Between a Module, a Package, a Library, and a Dependency?

Python

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Aug 7, 2020

How I created a responsive personal website with Django and Bootstrap in a week

Nowadays it feels like there is a whole laundry list of benefits to having a personal website. So, I decided to join the fray. This project began as a convenient way to learn the ins and outs of the “full-stack” of web development. Recently, I applied to be a…

Web Development

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How I created a responsive personal website with Django and Bootstrap in a week

Web Development

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