I often get emails from new developers who are looking to transition into tech, but not quite sure where or how to get started. It is a challenge that I have also faced myself - I also started learning to code several years ago, feeling overwhelmed with all of the options, and having little to no context to help choose between them. Should I do a bootcamp? Which bootcamp should I do? Read more...

In this post, I’ll demonstrate how I built my Resume page using Hugo’s data directory functionality. I have enjoyed using Hugo to set up a blog. I don’t particularly enjoy design and layout, so a system that allows me to do that one time, while still outputting an cheap-to-host static site, is nice to work with. I wanted to set up a resume page, and give myself more control over the design than I would have using Markdown/CSS – treating the resume as a collection of data, instead of a piece of content, provided that flexibility. Read more...

I have been using the git rebase command heavily lately, and thought it might be good to write a quick tips and tricks guide about it. I have found it incredibly useful for keeping my git history clean, organizing my thoughts about what I am writing and why, and grouping changes together as logical groups. Why would I want to use this? First, it might be useful to motivate why this tool is helpful. Read more...

Recently at work, I ran into one of those once-in-a-while git issues that generally end up being solved with creative Googling and git magic. This time, though, I wanted to understand a little more about how git works. The problem I was developing a new feature with a colleague, so we had two branches going that we were rebasing against each other as we went. feature-name/my-branch feature-name/his-branch At some point, we decided it was time to merge our branches into one consolidated effort. Read more...

Tips for algorithmic interviews say what you do know, even if you don’t know something else handle edge cases (empty list, negative numbers, zero, None, etc) use descriptive variables where possible (avoid i/j)