Explaining Code to Cats


Sometimes you don't have a ducky.

React and Redux and Rails, oh my!

I can’t believe we’re already here, at the end of my journey with Flatiron School! I just finished my final portfolio project: I got to build on my existing full-stack knowledge and get deeper into JavaScript with my newly acquired skills in the React and Redux libraries.


The Hikers App 2.0: JavaScript

Another portfolio project completed, another module of Flatiron School’s Software Engineering program behind me! After developing a deep understanding of Ruby and Rails over the past months, it was so much fun to tackle something completely different with JavaScript; I was excited to finally be learning the language that makes responsive DOM styling possible, something users expect on pretty much every kind of professional website.


Devise, Omniauth & Rails

User Authentication Made Easy


The Hikers App: Rails Project

I just finished another portfolio project for Flatiron School’s Online Software Engineering Program, and I’m super proud of this app—with each project, I can see my competency increasing by leaps and bounds and the projects I create looking more and more like production-quality apps.


Simple NavBar with HTML and CSS

On my last project, I had to hunt around through a number of blogs and websites in order to find a very simple, clean way to code a navigation bar that only used HTML and CSS. In case anyone else out there is looking for an easy way to set up a navigation bar, here’s the code I ended up writing and explanation of how it works!