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Should I rent a car with Chase?
This is my first post on my new home away from Medium.com! And continuing with the shaking-up of things, this post is about some stuff I’ve never written about before, but which are very important parts of my life… personal finance and spreadsheets! I have had the Chase Sapphire Reserve card for a few years… Continue reading
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Keep Pictures of My Child Out of Your Device
My wife and I recently welcomed the birth of our first child, a perfect little girl. As fate would have it, we both have very big families, whom were equally anxious to see and greet our little one. Slowly but surely, we started Facetiming with the excited bunch. Somehow, without fail, the same question would… Continue reading
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Generate Yoast Sitemap
If you’ve landed at this article, I’m assuming you already have some familiarity with Yoast and its purpose for existing. If you’re not in that bucket of folks, Yoast is a search engine optimization (SEO) tool for WordPress which… optimizes your content for search engines! This lets machines comprehend what material to surface when someone… Continue reading
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Why I Don’t Bring Smart Home Devices into My Home
We have seen such great advances in technology in the past couple of decades. Nearly everyone nowadays has a camera, a GPS navigation device, and a telephone inside their pocket. Now this marvelous technological advancement is spreading beyond our pockets and into our homes. I’ve had a decade long career in the technology field, and… Continue reading
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Automattic, Three Months In
Do you enjoy waking up in the morning without an alarm? Maybe go out for a run or a gym session, without having to think about how long it’ll take you before you get back? Or have you ever found yourself needing to run some errands, and simply finding the best time of the day… Continue reading
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Another FAANG interview request. Thanks, but no thanks…
A 2 week long, open dialogue, will allow any employer to discern a candidate’s state of mind, and whether they have the knowledge and capability to perform the job. Unfortunately this isn’t the norm. Continue reading
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How to Learn JavaScript
This is the third piece of my series on how to start a Software Development career. I recommend giving that a quick read if you haven’t already. Ahh JavaScript. What an interesting language you’ve been to understand. I remember being thrown into the proverbial fire when asked to make a code change involving you and… Continue reading
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MySQL: When to Order before Group
There is an order of operations when it comes to MySQL’s ORDER BY and GROUP BY functions. It’s something that is intrinsically understood but often difficult to know how and when to correctly apply it. In this article I’ll attempt to explain by examples. Transactional-style Tables I identify these tables as those in which there… Continue reading
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How to Learn PHP
This is the second piece of my series on how to start a Software Development career. I recommend giving that a quick read if you haven’t already. I’ve been writing PHP since 2011. Despite having years of experience under my belt, I still don’t feel like an expert. A big part of that is because… Continue reading
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How to Start a Software Development Career
The first thing you should realize is that there isn’t just one proper way of doing it! Sure, you have your coding bootcamp’s and your college degree’s, but the main thing those require (in most cases) is money! The internet has most, if not all, of the resources you need to be able to learn… Continue reading
About Me
An Engineer with curiosity for days. With a taste for photography, writing, and software.