Akira articles - 16 total
Explaining Like I'm Five: Connecting Front and Backend Systems
A large missing for myself and probably others is an accurate mental model of how frontend and...
Hot Tips to Get the Most from your Bootcamp
This is for my students, and for anyone who is embarking on learning to code, whether in a bootcamp,...
Setting up a JavaScript project
If you're new to JS, you've probably been hit with some confusion around package.json files, why you...
Lessons Learned From Singing Opera
You learn a lot being a high-performance oriented classical musician. Here are some lessons I learned...
Great places to meld music and code
https://earsketch.gatech.edu/earsketch2/ https://teropa.info/blog/2016/07/28/javascript-systems-musi...
Self-note: Try this to write a commit message when you're stuck in VIM
Maybe this will help you. When git pulling master into a feature branch, you may get this error: M...
Notes to Myself - First Dev Job Reflections
I've spent far more time fixing issues than I have spent time writing original code Bugs are a thin...
Notes to myself - the DOM
Document Object Model - The DOM The DOM is a cross-platform browser interface that treats an HTML or...
JS Array Stuffy Stuff
Honestly, maybe these array methods can help me understand stack. (pushing and popping things off a s...
Oh my God, WTF is Stack
I have a short definition I'm writing. Is this right?? Close??? Am I getting warmer??? "The stack...
How Scope Works & Why You Should Care
Scope is weird until it isn't. Let's discover.
How-To Annoy Your Senator into NOT Voting in RBG's Replacement Until After The Election
A Reaction to RBG's passing
I Translated Big Scary Tech Terms to Human so You Don't Have To
I took a bunch of tech terms that freak me out and turn them into incredibly informal (not scary) language
Basic Data Types in Ruby
As a beginning programmer, it’s important to get familiar with data types as ...
Solve long, then solve fast.
When I first started programming, I fell in love with the ability to solve the ...
So, you’re gonna go to code school, huh??
NOTE: This is a repost from my medium blog. Feel free to find me there, @ruthbr...