I didn’t renew livelocalkw.com this year. And it wasn’t because I forgot either. The hosting platform that my friend signed me up with years ago sent me a reminder that it was going to automatically charge me $150USD for hosting fees on May 28th so I logged on, killed the…

The first time I learned to code I was 10 years old and Neopets was the most popular thing at my school. In pursuit of the nicest Neopets store, I learned HTML. Flash forward 16 years and here I am learning to code again. When I first told friends and…

For the past few months I’ve been writing about my coding projects as a way to blend my old love (writing) with my new one (programming) and show off some of my skills. In the past I’ve written about recreating a pixel-perfect and fully functional copy of a web page…

I can’t say it enough: if you’re learning web development you need to build things! Without a doubt, I’ve picked up great ideas reading and researching. However, it’s when I’m challenged with difficult concepts within projects that I learn a lot and then I don’t easily forget the solution. …

One of the hardest things of learning to code as a self-taught developer is the near constant doubt of the curriculum you have to build for yourself. This is unavoidable despite the various articles that detail someone else’s personal curriculum and that’s because being a self-taught developer is highly personalized…