Wander in Wonder

Harvey Ngo | Student at Dev Bootcamp | Student of life.

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Order x Chaos

There’s been a lot going on still, so I’ve hardly found the time to write an appropriate blog post recently. Challenges and interviews from different companies are coming which is great, but I’ve been tackling some financial problems (yes, still) for the past while. Just because it’s not really worth the time to completely explain what’s going on right now, let’s just say that the financial problems take priority - by a long shot.  At least I found this gem of a mix today, check out the song at 5:09. https://soundcloud.com/complexion/the-future-beats-show-098

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BB in a week or so.

I thought I’d only have the challenge I had due last friday and the one that was due this past Tuesday, but things are picking up once again (in a good and bad way). I literally have had 4-5 more assignments thrown at me this week, so I’ve had something to do everyday.  It’s great and all, but I’m also lagging behind in taking care of myself. By that I mean, I need to get my finances taken care of and also continue exercising, dancing, and eating more. Going to be a busy rest of the week! I’m lucky I can’t really grow facial hair right now, cause I’d come out of this week looking like a lumberjack of sorts. Song of the day: Stay Here by Alfa & Emmavie https://soundcloud.com/alfamist/stay-here?in=alfamist/sets/alfa-emmavie-epoch

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Carry on.

HYeah so I’m late with the blog post, I know. I’ll do the pushups and situps..soon. But I will, cause exercising lately has been super refreshing lately despite the smell of sweat. Seriously though, sunshine is great, especially when you’re able to get a full dose of it on Karl’s days off. I have a lot to write about, but I’m just going to talk a little bit about my interview experience and process for cold calling /emailing companies. I would talk about the hiring mixer, but I’m still working with some people from the event in a way so I’ll write about it in due time. I wrote a quick post about 2 weeks ago about keeping your head up. Moving forward with the job hunt adventure, it’s super important to give yourself advice that you can really take to heart, because the job hunt can really be emotionally, mentally, and physically draining. I won’t deny that I’ve been a little bit bummed, but for me, I find myself being able to treat each experience as a learning experience. So what happened? Well, I interviewed with Playstation Network a few weeks ago, that’s what stemmed my other blog post. It was crazy how it all happened, and the fact that it even happened still blows my mind. It turns out that my resume was found through a recruiting site. How did my resume make it to that recruiting site?  I met up with a recruiter, who I owe a lot to and whose name I will not mention for his privacy, who I essentially cold called. His energy was amazing, and he wore a hawaiian shirt to boot. You kind of know you’re in for a good experience when you’re with someone who is wear a hawaiian shirt. Long story short, he gave me a tour of his company and kindly let me know that they weren’t hiring at the time. Let me just pause real quick. In a lot of cases, from what I’ve seen and heard at least, people basically drop the ball here.  NO. That’s not what you should do, ever! As long as you’re still on the court that is the job hunt, you have to keep on dribbling. Go for rebounds, follow up, and see things through to the end. That’s an analogy/metaphor that I literally just came up with on the spot.  Is it hard to maintain interest? Sometimes, but you really ought to make the MOST out of every opportunity. Because who knows what’ll happen down the road. Don’t be the kind of person who says “Hey are you hiring?” and leaves upon hearing “Sorry, we’re not hiring juniors right now.” The key phrase in that response that you just got is NOT “not hiring,” it’s “not right now.” That basically means, maybe later.  So what do you do? Keep on shooting and be the person who shows that you’re still interested, because you’ll end up being the person to leave a lasting impression. Now do I think that I’ve left lasting impressions? I don’t know to be honest, but I’ve been generously connected with other recruiters from VC’s and companies by the people that I put the effort into maintaining a relationship with (not sure if relationship is the best word to use in this case). The thing about networking, is that the whole idea of it can be very distasteful to some people. I’ll admit, I sometimes think it is. But something that’s been driving me forward lately is the mentality I have when I go about it. What’s really worked to my advantage is the fact that I’m not actually from the Bay, I’m from the East Coast. That, and I’m REALLY trying to stay out here or get a job that I’ll enjoy, not a job that simply helps me pay off my loans.  I treat each person I meet here as a potential friend really, and that’s really all there is to it. I don’t agree with asking people for introductions if I don’t really know the person I’m even asking the favor from (grammar check please). Seriously though, in a lot of cases, people treat other people as tools when it comes to networking, and that’s just not the way to do it. Why? Cause there’s this thing called karma and it can really come back to kick ya in the butt later. Anyways, I digressed. A lot. Playstation Network. So, I basically made it to the second round after having a great initial phone call and technical phone screen, and received the coding challenge. It was extremely fun and rewarding for me, because I got to practice my Vanilla JS. I won’t go into details about the challenge, but I basically learned about making XHR requests using Vanilla JS which was awesome. That, and I also flexed a bit of my creative sense which they really liked.  Come judgment day, I found out that I didn’t make it to the next round. But for me, the response I received wasn’t informative enough, and by that, I mean that I didn’t know where I fell short.  So I asked for feedback, and that’s where things really turned around for me. I was told that they were looking for candidates with a bit more experience and a stronger sense of code. I took that well, because I know darn well that I’m new to all of this and well, I was simply glad that I completed their challenge. But they also noted that they liked my design sense! That honestly was enough for me, although I would have liked a bit more feedback so I could know how to improve my code. At the end of it, I was still able to make a new LinkedIn connection, and hopefully manage to keep my resume in their system for potential candidates. Actually, they posted more jobs recently and I’m trying to get back in touch to reapply. That’s just one of the experiences I’ve had so far, and to write about every other one will honestly take forever. So in short, based off of my experience, I encourage all junior devs, especially bootcamp grads, to keep looking for opportunities, and when you can’t find them, make them. Perseverance seriously goes along way, but even more so, being genuine has its benefits. Make sure you stay true to yourself as you carry on with the job hunt, because it really can be a dog eat dog world out here. Just keep your head up and carry on, and walk along confidently with a clear head and pure heart. I felt like I just threw up a bunch of the cheese from that poutine I just had from dinner (which was for celebrating one of my best and first friends from DBC accepting his job offer), because that last line was suuuuper corny. I also don’t even feel like I really got around to writing about what I meant to write about, but hey, I wrote a lot. Anyways, here’s a song that my friend from the NYC Bees cohort just shared with me, check it. By Surprise by Allure https://soundcloud.com/allureproduction/allure-by-surprise

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My Coding Rap Parody of “It Takes Two”

Lately, I’ve been thinking of how to really grab the attention of recruiters and companies that I really want to work for. My friend said to just go all out, post a video, do something different, do something that people wouldn’t expect. And lately, I’ve been looking into companies that work with music and video, and so, I’ve stumbled upon 8track’s frontend engineer position.  So what did I do to hopefully catch their attention? I wrote a coding rap parody of Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock’s “It Takes Two”! So, here’s to hoping that I catch their attention! I just wonder if they’ll actually ask me to send them a video of me rapping... Here’s the rap!

Not sure why the copy pasting turned out funky, but here’s to hoping for a call!

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Overdue, but worth it.

At least, it will be. If I don’t write a blog detailing everything that’s been going on over the past 2 weeks by Saturday night, I’ll do 200 pushups, 200 crunches, and something else. That’s actually not a bad punishment, I should do them anyways. But I’ll be writing about the hiring mixer from a little while back, interviews/phone screens I’ve had, my experiences at 2 meetups, and just life in general (which is being completely owned by Citi Bank’s horrible retirement service).  Hopefully they’ll be good reads. For anyone that happened to actually be waiting on the posts (though I’m pretty sure I have 0 followers, and am oblivious about any potential stalkers), I hope that they’ll end up being worth the wait. Kind of like the new Disclosure album. Yeah, check it out, cause you should. Album of the week (like, internationally though): Caracal Minimix by Disclosure ft. A BUNCH OF REALLY GOOD ARTISTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bih0r16UnMk

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Keep Your Head Up.

Note to self. I’ll explain later, but for now, just do what you’re telling yourself to do now, Harvey. Song of the day:  Keep Your Head Up (Junior White Remix) by Kirk Franklin https://soundcloud.com/jrwhite-dj-gospel-project/kirk-franklin-keep-your-head

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In the Mix

A lot has been going on the past week. Hiring mixer, behavioral and technical phone screens, dealing with more financial related things as always, planning coffee dates, catching up with family and friends, etc.  It’s a healthy mix though, unlike Chex Mix which I am an avid fan of. You know what I’m thinking about. Yeah, the rye chips. Anyways, an update on my job hunt so far, cause that’s what you currently-non-existing-but-to-be-future followers will probably be asking about. I submitted my solution to the tic-tac-toe challenge and received really great feedback. That doesn’t mean I did great on the challenge. That also doesn’t mean I did poorly on it, either. What I mean by that is that the feedback was the kind of feedback you’re taught to give at Dev Bootcamp. I didn’t write tests for my tic-tac-toe solution, for some reason I didn’t really know how I’d write tests for a ‘simple’ game. I was wrong. I was told that tests are a MUST, and that I should take the time to learn Jasmine in order to write unit tests for all of my functions. In a way, I consider writing tests to be a more sophisticated and complex way of writing out if else statements, so the idea doesn’t sound so bad.  If only it was that simple. But regardless, I did have the intention of learning Jasmine soon anyways seeing how I’m learning more about JavaScript. And I really need to prove that I know about test driven development. So yeah, Jasmine it is. But for now, I’m tackling my 401k business again, so that I can make sure I’m able to afford my next 2 months here in San Francisco. That aside, I recently went through a technical phone call on Wednesday with a company that I really want to work for, and ended up making it through to the 2nd round. I just received the coding challenge, and that’s pretty much become priority number one for me.  For the most part, I’ve actually finished the challenge, I just need to style the UI elements and refactor the code to make it more presentable and object oriented. I’m fighting myself right now, thinking about whether or not I should submit the solution early to be like, “Hey, I finished early! Here’s the repo but I’ll still be working on it”, and try to prove that I’m determined and all that, or if I should just “Wow” them with surprises on Monday when it’s due. SO yeah, that’s the current dilemma.  In terms of the mixer, I will definitely be sure to write about that later, cause right now, I’m focusing on my top priority like I just said. And the whole mixer experience itself deserves its own post because I personally feel like that’s something all potential Dev Bootcamp applicants and just junior devs could benefit from. Stay tuned for more updates, and stay in the mix. It’s good for ya. Song: In the Mix (Roger Revisited by Dogg Master & Man Man) by Zapp & Roger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFLWGV1R3uw

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don’t use the force Luke.

because your Jedi powers are too weak right now. I now have an even greater appreciation for non brute forced coding solutions. I’ve been working on creating an unbeatable tic tac toe for the past few days. Initially I started off building a 2 player game, which later turned out to be a 1 player game against a beatable computer, which must now be turned into an unbeatable game of tic tac toe. Yeah. Conceptually speaking, the challenge isn’t that bad. Oh, so I’m doing this challenge for two companies, and despite being given the option to do it in any language, I really want to work on my JavaScript. I’ll admit, that I’m probably being a bit stubborn or making it hard on myself my choosing JavaScript first rather than Ruby, but I’ll say that I’ve been learning a lot in the process which is the point of coding challenges anyways. I’ve learned about using the Javascript every and map methods which ar e pretty similar in concept to Ruby’s enumerable methods, how to set  a default value for a variable using a snippet like this: fakeTurn = typeof(fakeTurn) == 'undefined' ?  1 : fakeTurn;

..and a bunch more. One thing I struggled with initially was handling different states of the tic tac toe board - more on that later when I actually get the miniMax algorithm to work. Turns out that JavaScript doesn’t handle cloning too well. Either that, or it’s a bit tricky to do deep cloning in JavaScript. One of my teachers at Dev Bootcamp pointed me towards using Object.assign( ) in order to make a shallow clone of an object/object property, which also led to me figuring out that I could use an Array.slice( ) in order to clone the array of my Game object that could be manipulated and NOT end up altering the original game board. Any who, I have a lot more to do today. Finishing up the ‘brute forced’ tic tac toe is on the list, but I’m pausing that cause I want to actually be able to look at clean code and really knock out the recursive solution. That, and I have to start preparing for more interviews and hopefully knock out Eloquent JavaScript pronto. Cheers to the weekend. Song: Tyler Touché - Act Of God ft. Jason Gaffne (Robotaki Remix) https://soundcloud.com/robotaki/tyler-touche-act-of-god-robotaki-remix-1

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Postponing this post.

til the weekend since I’ve got a lot of stuff to catch up on! Here’s a song for now though: Hotline Bling ft. Charlie Puth by Kehlani (esta Remix) https://soundcloud.com/beatsbyesta/kehlani-hotline-bling-feat-charlie-puthesta-remix

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Breathing Room.

Sunday sundaes sun day. The rest of the past week went by pretty smoothly. I’m still working on one of the coding challenges I was assigned, an Unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe, but I’ve been allowing myself to live a lot more during the past few days.  No, I’m not slacking, I’m just spending some time AWAY from the computer like every other coder should. The job hunt only gets more hectic as time goes on, so I’m really telling myself to remember that it’s okay to take breaks. Gotta make time to calm your nerves and unwind.  Does that mean I’ll be super prepared the day after I’ve taken a break to get back into the swing of things? No, I wish. Sometimes I’ll be even more stressed out because I’ll think that I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.  Stop that.

It’s funny, hearing about all of the other things everyone else has to say about their job hunt experience so far. You’ll almost always hear about the numbers game. And even if someone says to not just blindly apply to jobs like a not-so-experienced Call of Duty player who only knows how to spray and pray, they’ll probably say something like, “Oh, but make sure you’re active on GitHub.” In other words, “Play the number games even though I just told you not to”. Anyways, my goal is to finish Tic-Tac-Toe by mid-week if not sooner, and apply to more companies this week and whatnot. I’m more prepared to put in work this week given that I got to spend time hanging out with friends, go hiking along the Coastal Trail, play games, catch up on some TV shows, Skype with my parents, etc. over the past few days. Music has been keeping my alive as always. Right now I’m just really feeling out some acoustic songs. Just discovered Daniela Andrade today, and man I really love her cover of Childish Gambino’s Telegraph Ave. Not sure if I’d be able to code to it, but I’ll definitely be listening to it when I’m just tryna kick it. Check the link below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDANkA_4Kg

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Slow & Steady.

That’s how I plan on taking on the rest of this week at least. I spent Monday and Tuesday easing my way into the week by catching up with college friends who were in the area. Treated myself to some ACTUAL food for once. Delish. I should treat myself more... once I get a job. Quickly summarizing the week so far, I received a coding challenge on Monday and another one today, both of which I find interesting and fun. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to really talk about the challenges here or anything..even though people post them on GlassDoor and whatnot all the time. Playing it safe haha. Besides that, I’ve FINALLY faxed my 401k related forms so I can breathe a little better now. More like a lot better. Been touching up the final project from Phase 3 with my buddy Chris a little bit in preparation for the hiring mixer on the 15th. Other than that, it’s going to be a week of taking it easy looking at companies and whatnot and working on projects and challenges. Yup yup.

Mix from Soulection & Ta-Ku https://soundcloud.com/soulection/soulection-radio-show-221-w-ta-ku

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Job Hunt Week 1.

Point 2. Tomorrow marks the 2nd week since career week finished at DBC, but I’m treating it as the first. Why? Because well, last week was kind of a mess in terms of figuring out what approach I’d take and all that nonsense. That doesn’t mean that I have everything all figured out right now, but I think I’ll be more on top of things now that I’ve dabbled around with my resume, contacting people, and so forth. I spent the weekend NOT coding. I hung out with a few cohort mates over in Berkeley on Friday, which was really nice. It was the one time all week at that point where I had literally spent no time looking at a computer screen for an extended period of time. I mean, I went to the park and whatnot a few times throughout the week, but coding and job hunting was still on my mind.  Roll around Saturday, I took my sweet time getting out of bed. I ended up not going to the dance event that I had planned on going to, just to save money. I was actually productive, cause I spent my time filling out the paperwork I needed to withdraw my 401k prematurely. Now I know that may not sound like the best idea, but savings are savings, as my friend told me. And I’m using them to extend my stay out here in SF a bit longer so I can focus on getting a job out here or elsewhere. I just need to be within this community for the time being, that much I know.  Sunday - same deal as Saturday, but I made sure I hauled myself over to Church. Signed up for Jr.DevJobs.com or something like that, and got some dinner with some classmates. Then finished the nights with some games. Tomorrow I have a phone call with a company, and I’m hoping that goes well. Before that, I’m hoping to meet a good friend of mine visiting from San Diego, in addition to my other good college friend who also lives out here in SF. Hoping for a good start to the week, since it’s gonna be a busy one. That’s for damn sure. Song:  Weight in Gold by Gallant (Brasstracks Remix) https://soundcloud.com/brasstracks/gallant-weight-in-gold-brasstracks-remix

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sleep needed.

like, badly. It feels pretty weird being done with DBC right now to be honest - not having a set schedule anymore. There’s all of the things I should be doing, and there’s all of the things that I could be doing. I’m focusing on the shoulds, but even then, each day is still a struggle. I think the main reason I’m finding myself struggling a bit is because this job search is a VERY different experience in comparison to my college job hunt experience. The main reason being, I’m still new to coding whether I want to admit it or not, which isn’t a bad thing when you think about it. That just means there’s a lot more room to grow. But when it comes down to the whole process of searching and applying for jobs, I find myself checking in with others to see what their strategies and tactics are, and ultimately questioning myself at the end of the day. It’s kind of like, “Oh dang, you’ve been applying to 10 companies a day?” Or, “Oh wow, I guess I should be practicing algorithms, too.”  At the end of the day, I really need to just be comfortable with my own approach, which I am still figuring out. That’s not to say that I’m not pleased with my own way or that I’m trying to compete with my classmates and friends. I’m just nervous, really. But hey, the past 2-3 days have been great. I’ve been practicing my Vanilla JavaScript and having fun with CSS animations, and have been getting some sound advice from other DBC alumni and peers. One thing I learned about while watching some Frontend Masters videos was how in JavaScript, variable and function declarations are hoisted - or ‘brought to the top’. That’s my way of putting it really. More importantly, although JavaScript is widely treated as an interpreted language, it also kind of acts as a compiler language in that the JavaScript engine compiles the source code on the spot, and that’s why if you run your code with an invalid line somewhere in it, you’ll immediately get an error. Basically, the engine goes through to try and understand all of the code before executing anything (think “think before you act”), and if it doesn’t understand something, it’ll say, “Hey wait a minute, what’s this mean?” JavaScript is basically a prime example of a non-’Vegas’ coder. Again, this is just what I’ve come to understand so far. Regardless, Kyle Simpson’s videos are pretty sweet. Regarding my actual progress so far with the job search, I’ve actually gotten responses from I’d say..80% of the companies I’ve reached out to so far. I’ve only reached out to like 6 or 7. I kind of need to start keeping better track of that..note to self. I’ve got a few phone calls/coffee dates next week, so I’m looking forward to that, but I’m definitely going to step up my game come next week. Today was just great though. Yesterday I started up a miniature Super Mario card flip game, which I shared with a DBC alum who currently works for a company that I really want to work for. It was my first real introduction to a company out here in California since I’ve attended DBC, and I gotta say that I’m even more determined right now to work my butt off. I got mostly positive feedback on the code that I showed, but also received some really helpful constructive criticism and learned more about best practices and some tricks in the process. I’m super glad that I was able to connect through DBC’s network, and just have the opportunity that I was graciously given today. As of right now, I’m most likely not qualified to apply to the company I visited today, but I THINK that based on how things wrapped up after my introduction, that I can try to seriously apply within a month or two. Oh, and I finished my card game (though I’ll look into other features/bugs later) about an hour or two ago thanks to learning about the CSS3 pointer-events property. Check it out here.  I’ll be working on more mini-projects and most likely a large scale one by next week. Things are getting real now. “But I’m definitely going to take it easy tomorrow,” he thought to himself. Song: Wander with Me by Tom Misch ft. Carmody https://soundcloud.com/tommisch/wander-with-me-feat-carmody -dang, I wrote a lot today.

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WELP.

I did not keep up with my blog posts at all for the rest of DBC.  A LOT has happened. And as always, I’m throwing out my cop out excuse - it’ll take too long to write about everything right now. From finishing up Phase 2 Passion Projects to learning Rails, to starting Phase 3 Passion Projects where I dabbled a bit in React and learned more about using APIs, to the final week where I spent countless nights working late on my team’s final project...  I DONE GRADUATED!

.. and am now past career week looking for a job. Admittedly, it is really weird no longer having a sense of direction or having a set schedule (granted, I’ve also lost my sense of time lately). At the same time, I realize that this is the most important time in my life, and what I decide to do from here will determine how successful I am in the future.  My previous boss gave me this piece of advice when I had told him about quitting in order to go to a coding bootcamp, “It’s great that you’re making the decision to go out and learn at this camp while you’re young, just make sure that you don’t become dependent on being in a learning environment in order to continue learning.” Something like that at least. And I’ve really taken that advice to heart these past few days. So far, I’ve been applying to a few jobs, slower than I originally intended to, but it’s a start. I’m more focused on relearning what I’ve already learned. By that, I mean that I’m really trying to crack down on my CSS skills and Vanilla JavaScript.  And I’m lovin’ it. I had applied to my first company, or asked for a meetup rather, earlier last week. I was kindly told that I did not have enough experience yet, and that although I demonstrated my ability to learn how to use frameworks, that it’s also imperative that I really solidify my foundation with Vanilla JavaScript. For a while, I was hell bent towards fixing up my old projects (though one of my best friends here at DBC and I are in fact cleaning up our final project), but after speaking to a few alumni, I’ve more or less made the decision to just hold off on them. I don’t want to say that I’ll never get back to them, and I’m aware that it may look bad to leave a project unfinished. But right now, I think it’s more important for me to actually know what I’m doing and focus on best practices so I can tackle the bugs I faced earlier in my older projects more easily. In the meantime, I’ve also been building out small projects.. “Projects”. They may seem small and super basic, but I don’t mind because I’m treating them as building blocks. I’m going to be tackling more JavaScript and CSS this week, and hopefully get around to writing a blog here and there about what I’m learning or what I’m doing. I’ll definitely be utilizing Frontend Masters over the next week. I more or less have 2 months or so to find a job out here in SF before my funds run out, assuming I’m able to take care of all the paperwork I have in the midst of applying to jobs and learning. But hey, this is where the grind really begins and I’m prepared to hustle even harder than I did during DBC. Oh. And I am super glad to be able to spend time searching for music again. Check it. Better Off by IAMNOBODI https://soundcloud.com/iamnobodi/betteroff

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Moving in the fast lane.

Phase 2 completely blew by, like holy crap.  And unlike 3 weeks ago, we don’t have a week off between Phase 2 and Phase 3 this time. So it’s straight back to the grind.  I’m hella excited to push myself as hard as I can without dying over the next 3 weeks though. Looking forward to working with Rails, working on Thunder Talk projects (probably will look more into JS, React and hopefully Flux) to build on my front-end skills. One thing that’s gonna be hard for sure is keeping myself from thinking about final projects haha. For now, I’ll just have to tell myself to work towards building my skillset for final projects without actually thinking about final projects. More importantly, I’ll have to commit to not eating out as much this week and packing as much as possible for lunch and dinner. I spent 2 hours cooking this morning and hope that the food I made lasts for 5 days at least haha. To potential future reads and any possible incognito followers, I apologize for not blogging as often as I said I would. But in all seriousness, you’ll understand that it’s pretty damn hard to do so when you’re going through DBC. That, or I’m just making excuses. K, back to Rails tutorials and then some JS lectures. Song for Phase 3: Lane Switch by Little Simz https://soundcloud.com/littlesimz/lane-switch-new-mas

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Where’d the time go?

So much for keeping up with my posts this past week. On that note, just a quick update: I’m no longer Instagramming everyday either because I figure, rather than post a picture everyday, work on either my passion project or some other coding project everyday instead. Why? Cause I want to get to the level where I can build my own photo app and shit.  Anyways, yeah, time just flew by over the past several days. Kinda crazy to think that this past week, I got a mentee and started Week 1 of Phase 2. Buncha Sinatra and Active Record; routes on routes on routes. We built a Craigslist Jr. and a Lil’ Twitter clone. In terms of learning completely new things, this past week was rather light in terms of content. But we’re starting up our passion projects (which I’ll share in due time) and hell’s about to open its doors. So they say. Supposedly this coming week is hell week cause we’ll be learning about JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX. I feel pretty comfortable with the first two, but reviewing is never a bad thing, so I’ll do a bit tonight before I head to bed. AJAX doesn’t sound too frightening, not sure why. It could be because I’m starting to get used to picking up new things fairly quickly, and I really owe that to the way DBC runs things. It’s just mind-blowing how much we’ve managed to learn over the past 4-5 weeks. So despite all the stuff we’ll be cramming into our brains this week, I’m hella excited. Especially cause we’ll be dabbling in a lot of front-end stuff this week (finally). And yeah, “hella” has officially made it into my vocabulary book.  Week 5? Let’s go. Song for the week: Inhale Exhale by Nao https://soundcloud.com/thisnao/nao-inhale-exhale Cause I’ll definitely need to remember to breathe this week.

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Phase Deux, Jour Un.

I got myselfs a mentee now! Phase 2 is definitely going to be one heck of a roller coaster ride, but I’m super excited about it. Looking forward to learning a lot of stuff in a short amount of time and building some awesome things.  Definitely going to be putting in the extra work to try and learn more CSS and JS on the side to build up my front-end skills.  Gonna keep it at that for today so I can rest up well for the real stuff tomorrow! Song: Butta Love by Nehzuil https://soundcloud.com/nehzuil/buttalove