Nov 23, 2021Broadcast Blitz: Week 3This week, it was finally time to dig into the nitty-gritty of the backend, making fetch requests to the existing API so that I could use that data in the project! The first thing I did was make my search bar its own component — this likely would have been…1 min read1 min read
Nov 18, 2021Broadcast Blitz: Week 2The past few days, I went back to working on my long-term project creating an application that provides users with broadcast information for their favorite college football team. My focus this week was on styling, as I still wasn’t happy with even the basic layout I’d started on. I focused…1 min read1 min read
Nov 11, 2021Flexbox — Week 4: Building a Responsive Nav BarAfter a few weeks off from the Flexbox tutorial I’ve been working on to work on a few personal projects, it’s time to jump back into (and wrap up) Flexbox. For the final task of the tutorial, we were given a challenge that would tie everything we’ve learned so far…2 min read2 min read
Nov 4, 2021Broadcast Blitz: Week 1I’m a huge college football fan. I was raised on Florida State football and attended every home game and several away games (including a National Championship) while I was a student. While it is harder for me to make it to games in Tallahassee now that I live in New…2 min read2 min read
Oct 28, 2021Is Today A Bones Day?What is a “Bones Day”? If you’ve spent any time on the meme-heavy parts of the internet the past few weeks (especially TikTok), you are probably all too familiar with the concept. If you haven’t, this probably seems like a nonsensical phrase. Over the past few weeks, the internet has become enamored with a 13-year-old…React4 min readReact4 min read
Oct 21, 2021Flexbox — Week 3: Flex & OrderThis week, the first lesson in the Flexbox tutorial I’ve been working through is a deep dive into the flex property. flex actually handles three properties: flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis. When we set a flex value it is handling all three of those. So for example, if we say flex…2 min read2 min read
Oct 14, 2021Flexbox — Week 2: Positioning Items, Flex, Aligning Items, Flex-Direction, and WrappingNow that we have our basics covered and we know how to justify our content, it’s time to move on to the next lesson in the course — positioning items along the main axis. …4 min read4 min read
Oct 7, 2021Flexbox — Week 1: Basics, Display, Flex-Direction, and Justify-ContentThis week, I decided to take a break from my Instagram clone tutorial. I had a technical interview this week with a focus on front-end development. During it, I realized that I could use some additional practice with flexbox. To do so, I picked up this course to gain a…3 min read3 min read
Sep 30, 2021Building an Instagram Clone: Week 2 — Setting Up RoutesDefining Routes The next step in the tutorial is to begin defining our routes. We will have five pages/routes: Dashboard, Login, Sign Up, Profile, and Not Found. Within our src folder, we’ll create a folder called constants that contains a file called routes.js. In routes.js, …2 min read2 min read
Sep 23, 2021Building an Instagram Clone: Week 1 — Firebase 101This week, I started a new tutorial project. Building clones is one of my favorite challenges — there’s something so rewarding about building a clone of something I use in real life. So when I saw Scrimba had a tutorial on how to build an Instagram clone with lots of…2 min read2 min read
