Backstory It was a while ago that I decided to start to develop a messaging app to add to my portfolio. I wanted to have a bit of use using websockets, and I thought it would be a fun side project. There was just one thorn in my side that I…

The core feature in any social media platform is having the ability to let users follow other users, and to see posts that those users made in your own feed. A while back I made a social media app for my boot camp final, which used Ruby on Rails and…

“If you enjoy your job, you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” I’ve heard this said many times throughout my life so far. To simply enjoy what you do for a living is the ultimate dream. To work at something, and then get paid cash for it…

Let’s say you’re styling a webapp, and you have been writing CSS for hours and hours. Over and over you are writing curly brackets, colons and semicolons. You end up having to write the same lines over and over just to get the style just right. You wonder to yourself…

From the perspective of a developer, CSS is a bit of an oddity. CSS doesn’t inherently have logic, the ability to iterate or create loops, or to assign variables. This might be fine for simple static web pages. For larger sites and web apps, CSS can become tricky very quickly…

There are many useful tags in HTML. We have tags for headers, paragraphs, lists, tables, and so much more. One tag in particular stands out to be a little bit different. That’s the canvas tag. The canvas tag in html simply just lets us draw shapes onto our html page…

In my Flatiron school bootcamp we were assigned to do a pair project. Me and my partner decided to make a program that takes baseball data, inputs it into a local database, and returns relevant data to the user with a user input. …