I think arguments are fun. Not the anger disguised by pleasantries or through shouting. Growing up, it always hurt my head to witness the hyper masculinity induced shouting matches where testosterone dictated the winner. Arguments should be able to mutually benefit both parties. This is only capable if we reject…

As I embark on this journey towards a more professional spot in the software development community, I cannot help but remember my beginnings. My most formal professional experience took form in Raleigh, North Carolina. Perhaps best known for its craft beer and a shoutout in Old Crow Medicine Show’s Wagon…

Last week, I discussed binary trees. Since then, I have attempted to familiarize myself more intensely with the architecture that blockchain technologies employ. In doing so, I stumbled across merkle trees. On the surface these appear as inverses of a binary search tree. Before we dive in, I think it…

Early in the development learning process we discuss the value of a tree. Even in the process of learning React, you go over trees.Unless, you pay special attention it may seem as unnecessary. Like yeah I get these rules. Now can we move past it? …

Software is kind of cool, I suppose. We have the opportunity to stand upon the shoulders of giants. The achievements of of brilliant women and men have pathed the way for so many different possibilities that the future seems full of opportunity. …

I was casually reading Computer Science Distilled for about the fourth time. Looking at the database chapter, the concept of abstraction in general technologies is broken down eloquently. At this point I started think, what elements of the languages and frameworks that I use are abstracted, outside of the most…

So another blog on a redux, huh. While Redux is rather dope. I want to take a step back. The message I will be putting forth is not as useful to more seasoned developers. For beginners, I feel that I should offer a word of caution. …

Growing up, one of my idols used to joke about languages. The dialogue flowed a little like the below: “Yeah, it’s cool you know French, Spanish, English, and German. Three languages must be tough. I only 7; JavaScript, Java, Python, C#, Perl, English, and a little bit of Russian. I’d…

My Wrestling Api: The Struggle I love the sport of “amateur” wrestling. The reasons as to why and its impact on my life could be a short novel in and of itself. Naturally, that means I will not be discussing that sub-topic here. The subject of this post is my…