Kal MegatiinA Cluttered WorkbenchFrom Humble Beginnings: Ruby CLIJanuary is commonly treated as a time for beginning, resetting, and archiving the year before. In light of this transitory period, I…Jan 26, 2021Jan 26, 2021
Kal MegatiinA Cluttered WorkbenchA Sum of Parts and Creative InertiaI recall building my final Lego creation some half a decade ago: an OC Toa of Magnetism using Technic pieces. It is still posed up on my…Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
Kal MegatiinA Cluttered WorkbenchRails: Magic and Mechanism“Magic” was the recurring motif of my time learning Ruby on Rails. It seems a little strange to use such a whimsical term to describe what…Dec 9, 2020Dec 9, 2020
Kal MegatiinA Cluttered WorkbenchStable States and Getting GithubThis article is a throwback to an older project of mine, The Usual Spot. It was in developing this application that I started to really…Oct 30, 2020Oct 30, 2020
Kal MegatiinA Cluttered WorkbenchFailing ForwardI was helping a student on Flatiron’s Ask A Question last week. It was straightfoward enough, just a missed line in the instructions: they…Oct 13, 2020Oct 13, 2020
Kal MegatiinA Cluttered WorkbenchPrying and PithingContent Warning: Animal Dissection/Testing (no images, just description)Oct 7, 2020Oct 7, 2020
Kal MegatiThe Zen of Python: 5The Zen of Python is a collection of guidelines which, in amalgamation, are intended to summarize the core principles behind Python’s…Sep 28, 2020Sep 28, 2020
Kal MegatiinA Cluttered WorkbenchPredicting Python — A Forecast from a Ruby DeveloperThis week I took my first steps into Python — correction, my first steps *back* into Python. I’d been here before in a 101 course, but…Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020
Kal MegatiinA Cluttered WorkbenchReact/Redux — Tabula RasaI am a programmer, and I am also other things. Today (or like, this week; I spent a while on this post), I am a programmer and an actor.Aug 10, 2020Aug 10, 2020