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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.

Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.

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Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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September 19, 2018

Class and Instance methods, Momlife Style

Once you understand variables, you’re ready to dive into classes and objects. A class, in simple terms, is like a blueprint for objects. I like to think of it as an overall storage center for things of a same type....

September 12, 2018

Breaking Down Ruby Variable Scope

I’m building my way up to a personal project. But before I approach the project, I want to reinforce basic knowledge by going over what I’ve learned about Ruby and SQL so I can do what I want. For me,...

August 21, 2018

Project Walkthrough

For my first solo project with Flatiron School, I had to create a CLI Ruby Gem where I scraped data from a website and went at least one level deep. Because I’m still in this weird space where I feel...

August 20, 2018

Top 10 Things that Got Me Through My First Project

I hit the point in my Flatiron School curriculum where I had to step away from tutorials and do a project on my own. Nervous didn’t even begin to describe what I was feeling. On top of that, I had...

August 11, 2018

Building a Library: Object Relationships

I’ve been trying to understand Ruby object relationships for a while now. And generally, I have a grasp on what that means, but I still spend a lot of time figuring out what belongs to who and who has many...

July 19, 2018

It's Cool to Talk To Yourself

I’m generally a visual or visual-kinesthetic learner. I think that’s one of the reasons I really enjoy learning with Flatiron School. There’s a lot of reading material, code alongs, and labs. There are some videos and supplementary videos, but the...

July 9, 2018

Git and Github, the Screenwriter's Version

I’ve had this dream for a while to write a collaborative screenplay. Not a screenplay with a partner. I’ve already done that with my brother a couple of times. A collaborative project would allow multiple writers, editors, and experts in...