k.starkAgile Meets Education & Bar ChovyI’ve been quiet here for a bit, but behind the scenes I’m buzzing away at my first full-time role as a web development educator — learning…Apr 61Apr 61
k.starkBuilding Orbit, or How a One-Day Project Realigned Coding With “Fun” In My Job SearchMy fellow job searchers! Are you spending day after day studying coding concepts, learning data structures and algorithms, and solving as…Jan 17Jan 17
k.starkSurfing Priority Waves — Month Two Post-BootcampAs my second month post bootcamp graduation comes to a close, I reflect on the wild journey that is job hunting in a brand new industry…Dec 30, 2023Dec 30, 2023
k.starkPainting the Beams — Shed Build Out Week One!A week of birthdays, house-sitting, holidays, and so many cats to feed, and amidst it all, breaking ground on Shed!Nov 28, 2023Nov 28, 2023
k.starkThe Shed is Born! — Building a Resource Sharing App That Connects Chosen Family Networks Pt. 1Well, I’ve officially started my first big post-bootcamp full-stack project! You know it’s truly begun when you sit down to kick it off…Nov 17, 20232Nov 17, 20232
k.starkMomentum, Momentum! — The First Month Post-BootcampIt’s been almost a month since our cohort graduated bootcamp *whew*. Yes, I have taken several deep breaths and shared some meals with…Nov 17, 2023Nov 17, 2023
k.starkGoodbye Bootcamp 🥲— Bootcamp Weeks 14 & 15I come to you from the middle of our first career outcomes week, the whirlwind of bootcamp behind me and a whole wonderful career ahead…Oct 18, 2023Oct 18, 2023
k.starkStable Roommates & Tagging Curriculum — Bootcamp Weeks 12 & 13The highs are high, the lows are low, and the features are tricky — it’s weeks two and three of internship season! Each week saw a new…Oct 1, 2023Oct 1, 2023
k.starkProject Season Begins & Pix.ly Gets Custom Alt-Text — Bootcamp Week 12Project Season is officially underway! At the top of last week, it was revealed that we would be working on the student information system…Sep 19, 2023Sep 19, 2023
k.starkPix.ly Party — Bootcamp Week 10It’s the final week of the instructional portion of bootcamp, and we learned the biggest lesson of all — time management! Oh, and AWS. And…Sep 10, 2023Sep 10, 2023