Since I graduated in May, I have been applying to various companies, tweaking resumes for keywords, and crafting letters of interest. I have been doing all the fun stuff one is advised to do. I am also married to a wicked smart person who works in HR, and I have a small bit of experience[…]
One of the top priorities I have when building something is building with the user in mind. GitHub repo: OMTut/Logi That’s a nice thing to say, but I keep it as a priority. I try to establish the core responsibility of the app and then shift into usability. If the user has to actively check for[…]
This is the start of a journal into my development of a desktop app called Logi. It’s an overlay file parser. It reads a log file, filters for specific tags, and displays the desired info in real time. GitHub repo: OMTut/Logi Background During my senior year, I had an interview where a concern was expressed[…]
I wanted to dig into the Factory pattern a bit. I was fighting the thought that conceptually, it’s just a class with methods, but that’s not entirely right. I think what I’m settling into is thinking of it as an object that has purpose. It’s not modeling something. It’s creating. It’s using a model, and[…]
I’m working on a project called Naja. It’s a full-stack app using a PostgreSQL database. Each time I work on it, I cd to the frontend directory, npm run dev, then cd into the api directory, run the tests and start the server. I want to start automating this…or at least streamline it. I asked[…]
I’m working on a side project that uses Discord for authentication and connects to a PostgreSQL database. Once I got the login flow down, it’s super hard to resist the urge to start implementing other features as fast as possible. I mean it’s a side project, right? Yet, I can’t shake a nagging feeling, that[…]
This morning, I tackled turning our college project — ClearPath Task Planner — into a containerized web app. It’s a full-stack app built to help users struggling with time blindness to stay on track. With a React frontend, Express backend, and MongoDB database, it was a solid app. I want to let potential employers see[…]
sidenote: the image is from the traefik website. Previously, I have been accessing the internal services on the cluster by pointing the browser to a port on a specific ip address. It works, and there’s nothing wrong with it as long as the ip address doesn’t change…and you remember it. However if I want to[…]
Help me out here. Should I chart or not? I had two project heavy courses over the last year. One professor was adamant about charting. The other couldn’t care less. In fact, I’ll paraphrase his charting advice: “I’m obligated to tell you there is a thing called a UML diagram. Some businesses use it. Some[…]
This semester featured MongoDB in a couple of classes. I’m guessing professors are gravitating to it because it’s relatively easy to get up and running with a cloud account on Atlas. I really enjoyed working with it, and I will probably toy with a local deployment. However, I wanted to deploy a PostgreSQL database to[…]