Writing

This tutorial will walk through how to create functionality to allow users to filter posts on a Gatsby site by description, title and, tags.

Some of my reflections from participating in the 2019 Global Coderetreat Day where I solved Conway's Game of Life various ways with different people and principles each time.

Recently, I looked into tackling a rendering issue with Font Awesome fonts used on this site by removing JavaScript...

This tutorial is going to walk through how to create a Grey’s Anatomy or other-themed Lorem Ipsum generator with React and Netlify Functions

This article explains how it's possible to commit code that is dated in the future.

Attending various tech Meetups over the years has been pivotal to my growth as a technologist

Using Twython Twitter API wrapper to add users to a Twitter List

When I was first introduced to the command line I really had to adjust to navigating my computer in a black box with just text. So I avoided the command line as much as possible. I was accustomed to…

Lately, I’ve felt a bit stuck with my progress on learning how to code as I think I’m comfortable with the fundamentals. As I’m starting to immerse myself in coding, reading article’s like the Viking…

I recently started working on a Weather app in Flask to auto-detect a user’s location based off of their IP address. After committing some updates to GitHub my app switched from being labeled as…

This post will go over how to connect with the Spotify API to collect information about artists using Python 3 and then create an infographic from the data Spotify returned. Below is a preview of…

If you plan on programming any applications and storing your code in a public GitHub repository then it is important that you protect your API keys 🔑 by ensuring that they are not searchable or…

What’s special about an icon font. Icon fonts are vector-based: they load fast and are completely scalable (w/ a little CSS). An example of an icon font is Font Awesome. There are tons of different…

Great! You are headed to Photoshop to start designing your dream logo *pause* your logo should be designed as a vector file. Basic shapes and text in Photoshop can easily be converted to paths…

Me at Columbia University’s 2016 Black Graduation Ceremony receiving a gift from the Columbia Black Alumni Council. I’ve officially graduated from Barnard College. During, my undergrad career I was…

I wanted to recommend two websites (VISUALGO.net and RegExr.com) that have helped me with learning data structures, algorithms, and regular expressions. Visualgo.net helped me get through my Data…

I always enjoy finding a good deal! I sat down to compile a list of free resources related to technology for students. You can view my older posts that lists out free web development resources (for…

This past week, I decided to re-do my personal website. I realized that even though it did not seem like it in the midst of the process, I used quite a large handful of resources while developing my…