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I am a self taught developer currently residing in Connecticut. Currently my primary responsibilities are to be a stay at home dad. When I am not coding I enjoy skiing, rock climbing, backpacking, fishing, gravel & cross country cycling, trail running, and off-roading in my pickup. I am vegan chef and enjoy listening to Pat Metheny, Coldplay, and Shane & Shane. He/Him.
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Last week I started reading a new book titled "Starship For Sale" by M.R. Forbes. I thought it would be a fun project to build a fan site around the book series. While I was designing the site I wanted to add a forum so that other fans of the book se...
I have been searching high and low for a comment solution for my latest site I Love To Fish. I had tried Disqus but I really did not want to pay $11 a month. So, I kept looking. Then one day I came across utterances. I was intrigued could there actua...
I have been in a bit of a coding slump lately. I have had them before but they lasted a week or so at the most, this one is different though as it has lasted over a month. Truth be told I have been a little distracted with some epic fishing, kayaking...
There is quite a lot of information out there on how to setup a whole home Ad Blocker with Unifi and PiHole. So, I will not attempt to rewrite those tutorials. Rather I will focus on a few sticky points that I encountered and how I resolved them. Fo...
Yesterday (March 12th) marked my three year anniversary as a web developer. I started out with courses on Codecademy and freeCodeCamp(); and over the years I have learned quite a bit. It has been a fun journey and a hobby that got me through the pandemic and some pretty rough family times too.
In the last few months though I have been working towards transitioning web development as a hobby into a career. As I read through job postings and multiple websites I kept reading over and over "Ruby on Rails experience required". I also kept coming across other devs talking about Ruby on Rails and how it compared to other frameworks that I was using...
So, I took it as a sign that I should begin learning Ruby On Rails and when better to start than on my 3rd coding anniversary? The Go Rails site has a wonderful tutorial series and in less than 24 hours I had a site running on Heroku that utilizes Tailwind CSS too boot!
It is still rough around the edges but like all my sites it is a work in progress. Another site I started a few months ago is looking pretty nice https://iloveto.fish Go check them both out.
I am excited to see what the next year brings in my journey as a web developer. I have dabbled in a lot of languages and frameworks. There is so much cool stuff out there to discover in the wide world of the web. See you out there!!!