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Making Associations: The Basics

I like to think of associations as relationships. How is this model related to that model? If they met each other on the street, and their friend was there, how would they describe their relationship? The most common relationships are...

For All My Parents Learning to Code

Look, if you’re a parent, I don’t have to tell you that life is hard with kids. It’s hard when they’re a baby, it’s hard when they’re adolescents, it’s hard when they’re teenagers. It’s hard. But let’s add to that....

Treating Trauma with Technology, Rails Style

I have a love-hate relationship with my trauma. I hate it because of how it stopped my life for so long, how it prevented me from being myself, how it made me feel like I was stuck in this bubble...

A Year in Review

It’s been a year since I’ve started coding. December 6th is my one year GitHub-iversary, and December 11th, is my six month anniversary with Flatiron School. It’s amazing to reflect on the last year and all I’ve learned and the...

Let's do some chores: A Sinatra Project

For years, when I was teaching college English, I would give students an assignment that had general guidelines and expectations, but they would need to come up with a topic. There were always tears. How could I expect them to...