Hi! I'm a full stack developer building things for the web.
I bring grit, passion, and accountability to projects that solve real problems with software. Currently, leveling up at @HackReactor and contributing when I can to @OperationCode. Formerly @USArmy and @HarvardLaw. I like React.js, Node.js, functional programming, blogging, automating with bash scripts, climbing, and doing long, wandery trail runs.
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September 10, 2016
A functional guide to getting into Hack Reactor
TL; DR: To get into Hack Reactor, learning basic Javascript syntax and data structures wasn’t sufficient. In my studying I found it extremely useful to adopt a functional programming perspective that allowed me to practice the following meta-progr...
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August 27, 2016
Fueling the 🚀: How I learned to code while deployed to Iraq
TL; DR: While still in the Army, I went from never having programmed to getting into Hack Reactor. Here is what I learned along the way: Make productivity your default Don’t continue to do things inefficiently Adopt a growth mindset when it suc...