How Can I Learn To Code?

It’s been my sole focus to answer this question for the last four years, and I’ve noticed there are three strategies that successful students consistently use better than anyone else regardless of what resources they use:

My Biggest Failures as a Developer

If an alien race of honest beings chose to study humans, they would eventually take note of the energy we consume to protect our pride. How many times have you chosen to twist, hide, or otherwise fabricate the facts to protect your fragile psyche? One of the most…

Three Truths About Coding Bootcamp Job Placement Rates

If you’re interested in placement rates, you’re likely considering in-person coding bootcamps and are willing to commit the time required to be successful. That mindset is a great signal — and it’s essential to succeeding in the crafts…

Creating Modals in AngularJs

Modals have been a contention with me since I first started developing for the web. For the most part most my attempts to write a custom modal have been swallowed up with a magical bootstrap implementation that includes a little jQuery sprinkled in.

Swift: Simple, Safe, Inflexible.

Swift is a succinct, powerful, and safe programming language for…

What skills should every software engineer have?

One part of my job at Bloc has become: make sure everyone on our engineering team is improving their skills. We like T-Shaped people (succinctly: generalists with one deep area of expertise), and part of growing that kind of culture means…