5 Things I Learned from Advent of Code
Every year since 2015, Advent of Code happens. Each day from December 1st through December 25th, there’s a new 2 part puzzle to solve. On a typical year, I get to about day 4 then life gets in the way. When I finally remember there’s more puzzles to do, it’s almost time for the…
Using GitHub Actions to Build a Self Updating README
The Project Idea A few months ago, Github enabled the ability to add a README section to your profile in addition to the pinned repositories. Personally, I find this pretty exciting. I’m sure many other software engineers can relate that we have some throw away projects and…
Dangers of Console-Driven Development
What is Console Driven Development (CDD)? AWS offers the ability to login to a web UI dashboard. In this dashboard, you can add, edit, and deploy various cloud resources. When I was first getting started with AWS, this is where I began for two reasons: It seemed the easiest way…
Computer Science for Everyone - Queues
Motivations TL;DR. I come from a non-traditional background and never knew basic computer science concepts before getting into the industry. As I interviewed for software engineering roles, I found this to be a blocker at some companies. So, I’ve…