The feeling you experience when your code finally runs is what keeps you schleping through the morass that is programming. So when I had multiple projects all broken at various stages of development over the past couple of weeks, it was hard to feel motivated to keep troubleshooting. No wins…

Intro to Google Analytics In the spirit of new learning looks messy, I’m going to delve a bit into Google Analytics, which I’m tinkering with as part of a volunteer-learning project. I’ve already had a few surprises along the way. Surprise #1: the project is hosted on Vercel, which I’ve learned is an extremely…

Fresh off a visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, MI, I am all about antique cars all over again. I went with my close friend from high school and our kids. When she saw me geeking out and giddy over old-timey automobiles more than any of the children…

Still new to coding, I love watching tutorials to learn tricks for my projects. It’s really helpful and efficient to see how various things work together to create functional apps. …

Before you ask, yes, I will talk about my Heroku hurdles. But first, I wanted to address something integral to the coding process. I felt it was time to write about error-handling on a human level. One of my biggest fears about software engineering was getting stuck and not being…

First, a nod of the hat to Octocat, the Github logo. Apparently an inside joke between about 30 million software developers who use the platform to share code with each other, this creature in silhouette form is one of my favorite logos. …

Frontend developing is chock full of goodies. Material design is one I’ve started dabbling with as I work on an e-commerce project. I’ve incorporated some icons from the material design library in my app and am learning more about the whats, whys, and hows of material design. Here’s a quick…

I have been looking forward to creating an e-commerce site for ages and I’m finally building it out using Reactjs and styled-components! I’m following a tutorial by the amazing Lama Dev and the Materials UI site for icons like the cart you see in the image above. First, let me…

Big Picture I recently started exploring styled-components to work on the design of a Reactjs application. According to the documentation, styled-components allow you to write CSS using tagged template literals within your React components. …